Thirteen vs. Adrian Mole

On these two books/ films the topic are the same: young people, popularity, sex, drugs, and rock and roll (no, I'm joking, not rock 'n' roll! )
On the film thirteen Tracy change from a good student to a bad girl, who never does homework or learn, use drugs and cute herself. And these changes happen because Tray begins "friendship" with Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl at school. With her Tracy begins to steal money, meet with the wrong people and "friends", smoke, doesn't studying...
Evie is a bad role model for Tracy because she lets her think that the way she lives is the correct and the funniest. She let Tracy believe that the way she do things, is the best way and if you don't follow this way and the way that she lives her life, you don't are important.

Evie also influence her to buy a lot of new clothes, to wear make-up, wear piercings... In conclusion, all these things from the body, only physical. For this reason, Tracy begins to steal money to could buy new clothes.

But I think that in part it's also the fault of her mother because she could change the situation from the beginning. And her boyfriend also use drugs, but I think that aren't very important for this situation. She is also too friendly with Evie (when she allows her to live with them even she knows that she is a bad influence to Trancy). But Tracy's father have also fault because he asked only: What's the problem? That's ironical because he knows what goes wrong, but don't want to see it and had to change things.

For me the most shocked at the film were the scene when Tracy is cutting herself. I find it disgusting, I don't understand the reason why people do this.


If we do the comparison with the book Adrian Mole, Adrian also want to be popular, more money and have a girlfriend. In these points there are similar because both wants to be someone important. But I don't think that the next step of Adrian could be like Tracy. At the book he never appeared like a bad boy, and he doesn't know people who are bad influences. So I think it's nearly impossible that Adrian going to end like Tracy.



I know a girl with who happed the same thing like at the film. She used to be a good student, wearing always nice (and often pink) clothes, with a special character, but I wasn't matter too much. Now, she smokes, use drugs, wear only black t-shirts and jeans and nearly didn't pass 4rt of ESO.
I think this is the wrongest way you can take when you are young. With all these things, you only destroy your future.


At the end, I only want to add that I don't like these kind of books or films. It's very bored because during the whole school education time, we must read a lot of books about these themes and I find it really bored. And it doesn't make sense: the teenagers who do all these things wouldn't change and the others, who don't do it, don't want to do it.
This opinion and way to live don't change only from watching a film and for that reason, I thought, we couldn't see other films and read books with others themes.