

Claude's father detests him for not being masculine enough. He casually socializes with their family, the rest of whom are completely unaware of the affair.Ĭlaude fends off physical and emotional abuse from his alcoholic father while he tries to take care of his neglectful pregnant mother, who never does anything to defend him.

Throughout the story, he has an ongoing sexual relationship with his girlfriend's mother Rhonda, whom he tells that he fantasizes that he is with her when having sex with her daughter Hannah. Shawn is the most stable of the four main characters. His death is used to bookend the film, which follows the lives of four other teenagers who knew him. He arrives at a skate park, where he casually sets up a camcorder, smiles, and shoots himself in the temple with a handgun. The title character Ken Park (nicknamed "Krap Nek": his name spelled and pronounced backward), is a teenager skateboarding across Visalia, California.
