Methamphetamine In Jesse Pinkman's Breaking Bad

Methamphetamine, also known as meth or crystal, is a highly dangerous and illegal drug that can be smoked, snorted or injected into the human body to get high. Getting high is a strong feeling that can make people feel happier, more confident, or more energetic; however, lack of appetite, hallucinations, or death from taking too much are bad side effects that make it an illegal drug. The penalty for having any amount meth is jail, and the time in jail is determined by the amount of meth the person is found with. Meth is often sold by a drug dealer, a person who sells drug illegal. Drug Dealers are often seen as people who are uneducated, low life, cruel thugs that have a criminal record; however, in Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman and Walter White

White is because Pinkman has more street smarts than books smarts; however, Pinkman differs from a traditionally seen drug dealer. He lives a life with more ambition and with a nicer personality. Drug dealers are traditionally seen as a low life, cruel thug who is in it for the money. Even though Pinkman is in it for the money, he, however, is not so much of a low life, cruel thug. In season two, Pinkman’s girlfriend, Jane, dies one night from an overdose on the crystal that Pinkman made. With a guilty conscious and the ambition to change his lifestyle, Pinkman goes to a rehab center and vows to never do drugs anymore. His ambition to get clean and do something better with his life is off-putting of a typically seen, low life dealer who does not care to change their life. Being an ex-junky with no desire to ever use drugs again helps Pinkman stay off the radar of the

Compared to a dealer, Mr. White has more responsibilities like family. In season three, Hank, Mr. White’s brother-in-law who is a DEA agent, gets shot four times but the drug cartel. In critical condition, Hank is rushed to the hospital where his wife, Mr. White and his family is waiting nervously. While at the hospital, Pinkman continuously calls Mr. White from the meth lab wondering when he is going to come in and help cook because they have an important deadline that they must meet at the end of the week. Mr. White tells Pinkman that cooking meth is going to wait because he is more concerned about family than the consequences of not meeting the deadline. This shows that Mr. White is a family man, that his priority and responsibility is to his family, whereas, a stereotypical dealer is a thug, a person who lives a tough life on the streets or a criminal life in and out of jail. Since Mr. White is a family man, police would never think that he would cook meth allowing Mr. White to hide in plain