Evie Zamora, the protagonist from the 2003 film Thirteen, is a mysterious, charismatic, yet bold thirteen year who draws popular attention from her peers by her voluptuous body, seductive clothing, and flirtatious behavior. Evie appears to be a broken individual who displays deviant and destructive behavior. It is evident in the film that she transformed from a young girl into women over her summer vacation. Evie is characterized as the most popular girl in school. She has dark and lustrous brown hair, a physique like a model, a tongue piercing, and appears to wear a considerable amount of makeup. She also surrounds herself with individuals that are drug dealers and sexually active boys. One of Evie’s admirers is Tracy Freeland, who will do
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Evie introduces Tracy to deviant activities, such as stealing, drinking, sex, and getting high. Evie takes pleasure in violating rules and she often encourages Tracy to commit rebellious acts with her. Evie serves as an experienced tutor to Tracy, demonstrating not only how to kiss, but how to perform oral sex on a boy. Evie also displays a bisexual orientation when she kissed Tracy but is aggressively eager to seduce anyone she meets, including Tracy’s brother, mother and Tracy’s mother’s boyfriend, as well as Tracy’s neighbor. Evie is manipulative and tells so many lies that, no one can know when she is telling the truth. Evie's personality begins to unravel when she manipulates and seeks the attention of Tracy’s mother, Mel. She tells inconsistent stories about abuses she experienced in order to allow her to stay at their home because she viewed Mel as a mother figure. Mel empathized with Evie and became closer to her which caused a barrier between her and her daughter, Tracy. Brooke is Evie’s “guardian”, and claims that Brooke’s boyfriend hits her and that her uncle sexually abused her. Evie also states that her mother is a “crack whore”, and it is apparent that she lives in an environment where Brooke neglects her and disappears for days, as well as allows her to drink beer in their home. Brooke obviously does not really
Evie introduces Tracy to deviant activities, such as stealing, drinking, sex, and getting high. Evie takes pleasure in violating rules and she often encourages Tracy to commit rebellious acts with her. Evie serves as an experienced tutor to Tracy, demonstrating not only how to kiss, but how to perform oral sex on a boy. Evie also displays a bisexual orientation when she kissed Tracy but is aggressively eager to seduce anyone she meets, including Tracy’s brother, mother and Tracy’s mother’s boyfriend, as well as Tracy’s neighbor. Evie is manipulative and tells so many lies that, no one can know when she is telling the truth. Evie's personality begins to unravel when she manipulates and seeks the attention of Tracy’s mother, Mel. She tells inconsistent stories about abuses she experienced in order to allow her to stay at their home because she viewed Mel as a mother figure. Mel empathized with Evie and became closer to her which caused a barrier between her and her daughter, Tracy. Brooke is Evie’s “guardian”, and claims that Brooke’s boyfriend hits her and that her uncle sexually abused her. Evie also states that her mother is a “crack whore”, and it is apparent that she lives in an environment where Brooke neglects her and disappears for days, as well as allows her to drink beer in their home. Brooke obviously does not really