Adolescent Development In The Film Thirteen

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The movie thirteen touched many important factors of adolescent’s development. Some of the ones I want to concentrate in this paper are: family system, identity crisis, and peer pressure. Just how easy will it be for a thirteen year old to get caught up in a life of sex, drugs, and other thrills? Summary of the Movie Tracy comes to the forefront as a complex young thirteen year old enduring pain she feels about her parents’ divorce, the absence of her father, her mother’s recovery from substance abuse, and her inability to impress the in-crowd. This thirteen year seems like the typical cookie-cutter teenager, while adhering to adult expectations she does her homework and plays with childhood friends but you soon see that her inner turmoil …show more content…

In which these things are the most touch subjects in Catherine Hardwicke’s film Thirteen (2003). In Thirteen Tracy is a good student who hangs around with a couple of unpopular and wants to get a taste of what of the popular kids …show more content…

For instance she sees Evie at school and she likes the way Evie dress, how she is very popular, etc. Tracy eventually convince her mother that she needs new clothes, she only wanted new clothes to impressed Evie so she could hang out with her. One day Evie gives Tracy her new (but it was to wrong number) so they could hang out. Tracy finds them at a store, she finds out how Evie and her friends be getting out the new and cool things, They steal, so Tracy took it upon herself to go sit beside a lady waiting at the bus stop talking on the phone and she steals the lady’s’ wallet out of her purse. That’s when Eve accepted Tracy as her friend. According to Erik Erikson (1902-1994) he used the term identity crisis to capture the essence of confusion a person feels when she experience discomfort about herself. Meaning a teen who is very smart and competent but not a part of the ‘popular crowd at school, may aspire o popularity even though she knows the group often behaves in ways that she is not used to (LifeSmart

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