Thirteen & Adrian Mole

Tracy's character evolves

At the beginning of the film, Tracy is a good student, a normal girl and she has some friends. Is her first year in the school and she isn't much popular. When she sees that Evie is the most popular girl in the school and that all boys are interested in her, she decides to go to Evie to be popular too. Firstly, they start stealing clothes, but time at a time they steal money, more clothes and sell drugs. Tracy's marks start being worse and her teachers are worried. Tracy starts to take drugs and to become rebel and incontrollable. She cuts herself and goes with Evie who lives in her house. Finally they get angry and Evie leaves from Tracy's house. Then Evie continues being popular but Tracy is one more of the school like at the beginning.

I think that Tracy becomes rebel and incontrollable through the fault of some problems. On the one hand, her father is always working and he almost never goes home. On the other, her mother tries to be a good mother but she isn't, and she doesn't pay attention to her daughter. Another problem is that her mother's boyfriend was a drug addict and he goes to live with them. But the main problem is that she wants to be popular and starts going with Evie, taking drugs and doing a lot of bad things. Evie is the worst problem and when she starts to live with Tracy's family, more problems arrive. I think that Tracy does all of these bad things to liberate her pain and to try to be like Evie, seemingly without problems. The combination of all of these problems makes that Tracy becomes a rebel girl.

If we try to compare the film with Adrian Mole, we see two different lives but with some seems. Adrian's parents are divorced like Tracy's, their lives are difficult and they haven't good very money. But we also can see the differences, Tracy has a difficult character and she is not happy with her body up to the point that starts cutting herself, and Adrian is happy with his body and he doesn't want to change.