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Deseo de ser punk
Martina, the 16 year-old-girl who is writing a letter to a boy in her class (which is the novel we are reading) defines the relationship with her parents and with the world in general in relation to music. Her relationships with the adults in her life (both belligerent and amiable) are always mediated through a legendary song or unforgettable album. And this becomes the source for the music that invades the novel. Martina decides to take action against the conformity of the society that surrounds her. Martina doesn’t attack her parents nor does she rebel against their bourgeois lifestyle. She understands their problems, although she doesn’t share them. But the issues that affect Martina, from the uprisings of the young on the streets of Athens, to the plastic prosperity that pushes her towards the consumer society are more complex. Her desire to become a punk has a political context.