Rebellion is a normal part of teenage life. In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins Kristina decides to see her father who she hasn’t seen in eight years. She stays with her father for three weeks and in those weeks Kristina begins to be an entirely different person. Kristina becomes Bree, who does drugs, and things she knows she is not supposed to do. In the first half of Crank Kristina becomes the person she does and does not want to be. Kristina rebels beyond the normal teenage rebellion, but was this rebellion brought on by her visit to her fathers or was is it going to come out eventually?
In Crank Kristina seemed to really start to become Bree and rebel when she goes to her fathers. Something made Kristina want to see her father after all these years. That’s when Bree started to come out of Kristina. Kristina started to notice Bree when she got to her fathers, that’s when Bree took control. Bree made Kristina rebel, but Kristina didn’t resist. If Kristina’s mother hadn’t let Kristina go to her fathers she wouldn’t have rebelled so much, but she would have eventually felt like Bree anyway. Bree seemed to already be taking over Kristina, the trip just sped it up and enhanced it.
Teenagers rebel all the time. Teenage rebellion is just apart of adolescence and coming of age. Teenagers may do drugs as rebellion, but they don’t usually become a whole new persona. People do change and they do become new people, not usually literally in the way Kristina did.
I agree with you on some parts of this post, but not on all points. In the beginning, Bree was still inside of her, but I think that her environment was really the cause of her rebellion. When she went to Albuquerque, she was expecting her father to be this clean cut person, but he wasn't. Then she just dropped her standards for him and even Adam, and along the way, for herself.
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