To summarize the essay, Crack in the Box, you have to understand the writer and what he is saying, or the point he is trying to make. In the article Crack in the Box The writer Pete Hammil compares the difference between Television and the common street drug known as Crack Cocaine. The essay starts with a story of a young lady hooked on drugs and living in poverty with a couple of children. The children are almost hypnotized by the television as Hamill is interviewing her. As Pete Hammil is walking back to his office he is thinking about all the drug problems in the world and how there affecting society today and comes to a claim which is a claim of cause. Hamill's claim is actually a whole paragraph when he is thinking about the drug problem and the 60,s to the present and concludes that there was one major difference between that time and this, "Television".
             The claim that is made in the essay Crack in the Box is simple, which is a claim of cause along with sub claims of facts. The claims of cause is stated by relating the 60's to today when the drug movement started. The facts with that claim are that in the 60's the drug problem was small and insignificant, now the drug problem is huge. Pete Hammil states a fact that The united States represents only 2 percent of the world's population, yet, it consumes 65 percent of the world's supply of hard drugs. Now Pete Hammil also questions politics and the George Bush presidential campaign, How Bush offers the traditional American excuse "it is someone else's fault". Bush never asks why so many Americans demand the drugs. There is nothing to back those statements up in the paragraph.
             There is allot of comparison to back up the claim such as The increased sales of televisions from the 1960's to the present. In the 60's there were 31,700,000 television sets in the country, which has doub
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