Comparison of 'Heroin Lies' with 'The Basketball Diaries'.

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Drama Essay- comparison of ‘Heroin Lies’ with ‘The Basketball Diaries’ Heroin is a deadly drug, which kills approximately one million people every year. In this essay I will be comparing two dramatic acts.  ‘Heroin Lies’, which I acted out. The other is a 1995 hit called ‘The Basketball Diaries’. I chose this particular film to compare with my act because they have several similarities but also a number amount of differences.                                The beginning of the film ‘The Basketball diaries’ starts with an ordinarily boy waking up in bed on a normal day. Instantly you see that he has got a type of book in his hand, which later on we see that it is his diary which he occasionally writes in. In the block opposite him we see a strong religious woman constantly shouting out what seems to be a prayer. We then witness the boy by the name of Jimmy Carroll change from an innocent being to a horrifying beast as he tells this religious woman to “Shut up!” We now see that Jimmy has a horrible side to
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him.                                                                                                As we watch on we see that Jimmy Carroll is a star basketball player on his New York City Catholic school team. Fellow basketball team mates Mickey and Neutron and unofficial cheerleader Pedro  are Jimmy's closest friends, and whenever trouble stalks one, it invariably affects them all. So, when the drug cycle starts, it quickly spreads to each of the four corners of the friendship. What begins as casual use first becomes a weekend habit, then an everyday obsession. Grades plummet, on-court performance becomes unreliable, and crime looms as the only means to pay for a seemingly endless supply ...

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