Identical By Ellen Hopkins: A Character Analysis

Identical by Ellen Hopkins is an extremely character driven and deceiving book. Those characters being, Raeanne, Kaeleigh, and the girls’ father. Raeanne and Kaeleigh are twins with a mysterious past. Raeanne being the more crazy twin, is reckless, disobedient, and careless. Her sister, Kaeleigh, is the exact opposite. Kaeleigh is lonely, obedient, and curious. Their father, as one would assume, is a mix between the two girls. He is lonely, micromanaging, and authoritative. Each character has a reason for being the way they are, which reveals their past.

Throughout the entire book Raeanne displays her recklessness. For example, she went to a boys house that she had only met once and did drugs with him, not knowing what they were. Also, Raeanne met another guy named Mick that she had sex with for drugs. Furthermore, she tried to convince a teacher to have sex with her. If this isn't recklessness then I don't know what is. …show more content…
She sneaks out nearly every night, and to add on to that, it’s always to party and do drugs. Her father is strongly against partying and drugs. As a result, she lies to him about where she is and what she's doing. Her recklessness and disobedience are tied together because she always does one with the other.

Raeanne is continuously careless with her actions. Obviously, this too comes back to her drug use. However, to further her carelessness, Raeanne has sex with multiple partners and no protection. Also, she acted like her twin to have sex with her twins boyfriend. To conclude Raeanne’s role, she’s an adrenaline seeking teenager who goes to any extent to achieve this feeling.

To change things up a bit, Raeanne’s twin Kaeleigh is shockingly obedient. She maintains a diet to stay under a size two. She does this because her father asks this of her. Her life is like a game of Simon says with her father. He tells her to do something, and she does