"Guitar Highway Rose" by Brigid Lowry: What are the issues of teenagers revolving around their relationship, teenage rebellion? What is intertextuality?

The storyline The book "Guitar Highway Rose" talks about teenage rebellion, their experiences, relationships and thoughts about everyday life. Asher and Rosie are both fifteen and are the central characters in this narrative. Rosie and her mother can at times not want to look at each other. Her mum thinks that she is a bad mother because Rosie never obeys her, they argue nearly every time they so much as glance at each other. Asher …

…From Living With Teenagers. This effect is used to refine the story or give it more meaning, " they need to take risks and make their own decisions, they will resist dependency " so it gives meaning to when Rosie is about to smoke marijuana for the first time, she is taking a risk, becoming independent and gaining identity. It is also written in a different font to say that it is not part of the plot.