blogpost # 3

                           http://abookadventure.blogspot.ca/2010/11/candy-by-kevin-brooks.html 

Rebellion, in my opinion, is going against something. It could be your own values, your own beliefs etc. It could be the refusal of obedience, and basically being a "rebel." "She stared at me, her eyes wide open, shaking her head in disbelief. "Let me get this straight- when you rang her up, you knew she was a prostitute, didn't you?" "Well, yeah...I suppose.." "And this guy who was with her before, the one who threatened to cut your throat- you knew he was her pimp?" "She said he was just someone she knew-" "What- and you believed her?"(Brooks 143-144) In this part of the novel Candy by Kevin Brooks, this is a conversation between Joe, the young boy, and his older sister Gina, involving the mysterious girl Candy, and who she really is. Joe, knowing the love of his life, his addiction, is a prostitute. In my opinion, that is going against your own values, your family values, and just going against the rules of the majority of society. In a general aspect, loving a prostitute, while she is still is one, is a negative thing in most peoples eyes. By knowing this and still doing everything in his power to be with her, shows he is rebelling his sisters wishes, his fathers wishes, and a number of other people in this story. I think Joe is just blinded by his obsession with Candy, he doesn't really realize what he's doing. He's just focussing all his feelings towards her and basing all his decisions off that as well. Also he shows he is a very easy-going kid, always listening to his father, and caring for his whole family, but I think that is only because he never got to make a decision that his father or anyone would really have a problem with, until Candy came along. Now he is showing he doesn't care about what anyone thinks, or what Candy does, or is. All he cares about is his feelings towards her, he is rebelling off the values he has been taught throughout his life and "following his heart" in theory. 

MLA:

Brooks, Kevin. Candy. New York: Scholastic, 2005. Print.