Corruption In Kentucky Mars

Veronica Mars is a female teenage Private Investigator helping her father run his business, and is presented as a loner at the beginning of the series. Giving a personal perspective on the people that surround her on daily basis and how they treat her and others around the setting of the high school. Veronica Mars is a hard-boil detective that does not follow how hard-boil detectives are perceived. We have an understanding that a hard-boil detective is an adult white male loner, who is sarcastic and an alcoholic. Throughout the story being told, the women are perceived to be the ones causing corruption, sexually and emotionally. However, Veronica breaks the traditional hard-boil detective, by being a female, a teenager, staying away from alcohol and drugs, and the corruption is not from the women but the men. Especially Aaron Echolls, throughout the first season the main source of corruption. He was portrayed as a family man to the public eye, but behind the camera the action star was a pedophile, murderer, alcoholic and a terrible father. Aaron would have sex with any female that would
open her legs for him and he made sex tapes without them knowing. With fear of his sex tapes getting out and ruining his perfect public image he reacts violently and aggressively, killing Lilly Kane. Lilly Kane, she was the queen bee of Neptune High School, the daughter of Jake and Celeste Kane a billionaire family and sister to Duncan.
Lilly was Veronica Mars’s best friend and Logan Echolls on and off again girlfriend and the four of them were known as the fab four. Lilly was known to be on the wild side and caused corruption in the lives of the lovers she would have on the side. She was never listened to her mother and did everything in her power to make her mother mad. Her death affected every character differently, Duncan was so upset he went into epileptic shock, shrinking into a shell. Logan is portrayed as angry at the world blaming himself, Veronica especially and even Lilly for her death. Veronica was not only upset by her best friend’s death, but her mother abandoned her and her father after Lilly’s death and she was shunned from her friend group and she was
raped. Veronica became a sharp, witty and sarcastic girl after the night of Shelly’s party and with a changed attitude and changed style she tackles everyday life in strong strides even though she is hurting inside. Throughout the series you can clearly see the changes that occur in Veronica, at the end of season one she opens herself up just a little bit and realizes that she actually has friends in high school or I should say people she could rely on to help get information. Season two she is just as sarcastic except she is not an outcast to the rest of the school. Veronica’s character breaks the expectation of hard-boil detective by no longer being a loner, she does not drink alcohol or really gamble. However, she is a great detective and an episode called an “Echolls Family Christmas,” proves that she is good at what she does. This particular episode is when Weevil Navarro, Logan Echolls, Duncan Kane, Shawn and Connor play a game of poker and the money goes missing. When she figures out who the culprit is she makes the guys suspenseful by going down the list of “suspects”. She checks them off one by one by figuring out their alibis. When Veronica gets a case she does everything she can to solve it, following clues, background checking people, stakeouts, ruins her relationships with those she is close too. As long as she sees justice done for those who have fallen victim to the crimes that have been committed, she will do whatever it takes to get the answers she is looking for. The relationship that causes so much corruption would be the romance between Veronica and Logan. However, it is not sexual corruption, its emotional corruption. During season two Logan and Veronica have a talk about their relationship and how it is an epic one. When Logan is talking to Veronica, she asks, “What are you like now?” Logan responds, “You know tortured ever since I had my heart broken.” Logan then goes onto say, “You know I thought our story was epic, you know, you and me.” Veronica asks, “Epic how?” Logan replies, “Spending years and continents, lives ruined, blood shed, epic.” This conversation happened in the episode, “Alternate Prom,” Veronica has to really think about what Logan said to her about their relationship. She is not one to trust easy, so when things get hard or her feelings are complicated she runs away.
Furthermore, Veronica mars is also like a hard-boil detective in many ways. One way is the cynical voice over, Veronica is telling the story of what has happened, the entire plot is based around Veronica and what she does. The class division of the story is also very real, you have a zip code of Neptune and you are either and 09er or you are the help. There is really no in between class and Veronica falls in the (2) “help” class. This stays present throughout the series as does the voice over. Veronica Mars is a hard-boil detective, however, she is a teenager and a female, that does not mean that she cannot get the job done though.