Dakota Hoffman Changes and Choices Mrs. Strittmatter
Have you ever felt like you were socially awkward? Well in the book of the perks of being a wallflower a kid named Charlie has a hard time knowing what to do to socialize, in the movie Mean Girls a girl named Katy comes from Africa and also doesn’t know what to do socially, so they both have similar social skills, both causing them to be social outcasts. In the book Charlie starts his freshmen year out friendless and he is not really sure on what he is to do to make a friend. But he meets Sam and Patrick and just goes with them because he felt comfortable around them. In the movie Mean Girls Katy arrives at school and also doesn’t know how to make friends but then Janis
Charlie goes to a foot ball game and approaches Patrick because he is the only one that seems approachable to him then they talk. “Hey you’re in my shop class!” He’s a very friendly person. “Hey I’m Charlie.” I said, not to shy. “And I’m Patrick. And this is Sam.” He pointed to a very pretty girl next to him. And she waved to me.” That is the start of their friendship because then after the football game they go to a place called Big Boy and they talked and asked a lot of questions. (Page 19) In Mean Girls Katy at her first day of school tries to talk to people at a table and they just get give her a bad response, then when the second day of school happens she walks into class and Damian and Janis talks to her and they get friendly. Katy then asks them where her next class is. They then go to lead Katy out of the lunchroom to her next class but they lead her to the football field and say “sit down friend”. Katy skipped her first health class because she was called friend. These two concepts of how Charlie and Katy don’t know how to socialize shows up by the fact that Charlie felt uncomfortable to approach anyone till he saw Patrick but with everyone else he avoided because he didn’t know how to socialize. Then when Katy tried to approach people they just ignored her because she didn’t know how to socialize in her school. As soon as they both realized they had friends they felt good and
Katy did it by becoming the one thing her friends hated Plastic. In the book this is how Charlie screwed up, “But then, Patrick gave me a dare. I don’t even think he knew what he was doing, but he gave it to me anyway. “Kiss the prettiest girl in the room on the lips.” That’s when I chose to be honest. In retrospect, I probably could not have picked a worse time. The silence started after I stood up (since Mary Elizabeth was sitting right next to me). By the time I had knelt down in front of Sam and kissed her, the silence was unbearable.” (Pg. 135)This resulted in everyone in the room being upset with Charlie. Then in the movie Mean Girls Katy hung out with the plastics and after being with them for a while she started to turn into a plastic and emotionally hurt her friends and then annoyed Aaron, which is the boy she likes. She called her friend Janis a dike and Damian too gay to function and also skipped the art show because she threw a party instead. Her friends ended up driving to her party and were mad that they weren’t invited and Janis said that she was a spitting image of Plastic and she said some bad names to her. Katy was acting innocent even though she wasn’t. She felt bad after this happened. These two concepts relate because after they hurt their friends they both gave them distance and stayed away because they didn’t know what to do.
Who holds the key of power in your life? Is there a person or group of people that you are allowing to dictate your life choices? The movie Mean Girls brings to life the everyday peer pressures teenagers deal with. Main character Cady Heron experiences peer pressure for the first time, from multiple classmates. Although it is said that a person can not be persuaded to do or say anything without their consent, is this really true? Cady deals with situations in which she is being pressured from two sides of the spectrum. In the end she realized what was happening to her, but the peer pressure she endured impacted the entire school.
Mean Girls is a comedy film aired in 2004 this film captures the influences on lifespan development during adolescence. The main character Cady Heron was home schooled in Africa and now she must transition into high school where she is tested in different areas of her development. Throughout the film she becomes known as the new girl who is trying to figure out her self-identity. Cady integrates herself into a clique of girls known as the Plastics, soon enough Cady understands why they are known for their name. The Plastics run the school by the norms they have created and must always be followed otherwise it will lead into exclusion from the group. In order to be socially accepted social norms determining attitude, behavior, and status must
The film Mean Girls is about a young girl, Cady Heron, born and raised in Africa by her zoologist parents, who were also her homeschool teachers for sixteen years. When Cady moves to the United States, she enrolls in a public school for the first time. Here she realizes that high school students have the same hierarchy as the animals she observed in Africa. The lowest ranking group in this high school hierarchy is the outcasts, who also happen to be Cady’s first friends in the U.S. The highest on the high school food chain are the “plastics”. The “plastics”, are the most popular girls in school. The plastic’s notice Cady’s charming personality and stunning good looks and invite her to join their clique. In order to avenge her first friends,
In our modern world, sociology has a tremendous impact on our culture, mainly through the processes and decisions we make everyday. For movies and television shows especially, sociological references are incorporated throughout the storyline. A movie which includes many sociological examples is Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a movie based on the life of home-schooled teenage girl, Cady Heron, who moves to the United States from Africa and is placed in a public school for the first time. Cady finds herself in many uncomfortable scenarios and has to deal with the trials and tribulations pertaining to everyday high school issues. Her experiences involve interacting with high school cliques, such as ‘the plastics’, weird high school teachers, relationships,
The movie main character is Cady Heron who is a homeschooled girl. Her and her family lived in Africa for 15 years. They return back to the states and place Cady into a public school for the first time. Cady meets her classmates and finds a few good friends the introduce her to a group of girls called the Plastics. She ends up joining the plastics with the motive of bring them down because her new friend don’t like them very much and thought it would be funny. However, she eventually gets assimilated into the group of three unkind girls and starts to be just like them.
“So I Ain’t No Good Girl” by Sharon Blake begins with a girl waiting at the bus with other girls. She despises when other girls or boys stare at her, making her character seem rude. Throughout the story the author Sharon Blake makes her seem rude, pitiful, and she is most described as bipolar. She has a boyfriend, who tends not to care about her as much as she does. Throughout the story she builds herself to become stronger; and her character’s personality changes.
Scream Queens (FOX) – The latest creation from Glee/American Horror Story executive producer, Ryan Murphy. Revolving around a snooty sorority and a homicidal maniac along with a series of murders, what's not to like? Featuring an impressive cast – Emma Roberts (American Horror Story), Lea Michele (Glee), Keke Palmer, Nick Jonas, Abigail Breslin, Ariana Grande, and the scream queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. Scream Queens airs Tuesday nights on FOX.
Throughout the book, the just assume people’s identities. They never met them, interacted with them, or even talked to them. For example, they just assumed the “lunatic” was mad as a hatter and that he was going to do something horribly terrifying to their mothers. They also assumed Mrs. Cadaver murdered her husband considering her last name. They never opened themselves up to meeting new people. They just pushed them away and didn’t take the time to get to know them. In the end of the story, the girls find out that those people weren’t bad after all. The “lunatic” turned out to Phoebe’s long-lost brother, and Mrs. Cadaver never murdered her husband,whereas he actually died in a car accident. Sal and Phoebe stopped pushing people away and realized that the world isn’t so bad after all. Again the lesson is clear : if you never accept anyone, you’ll never meet the real world.
Ideology is “a system of meaning that helps define and explain the world and that makes value judgments about that world.” (Croteau & Hoynes, 2014). According to Sturken (2001), the system of meaning is based on the use of language and images or representation. Therefore, media texts come along and select what is “normal” and what is “deviant” to the extent that this hegemony of constructed meanings in the viewer’s head becomes “common-sense” (Gramsci in Croteau & Hoynes, 2014). From this standpoint, what America claims to be pop culture which is omnipresent in media internationally, is a representation, through “politics of signification” of what is right or wrong (Kooijman, 2008). An example of America’s cultural ‘manifestation’ is Mean Girls,
Mean Girls (2004) is a movie that captures the challenging obstacles, excitements, and the letdowns that the adolescents face during high school. Although the movie is greatly exaggerated and does not hold to the true essence of reality, the film portrays the struggles an individual faces during adolescence. The protagonist of the film, Cady Heron, moves into the suburbs after being raised in Africa by her two scientist parents. As Cady is now enrolled into an American high school, she struggles to find her sense of self-identity as she encounters multiple groups of friends and she tries to fit-in by trying to find the status quo of the “American-high-school-way.” The film also emphasizes the development
In the movie Mean Girls the “plastics” are perceived as rude, girls who cheat on their boy friends, and fake. The word fake is expressed by the lack of realness in the plastics, they might say one thing to a persons face but behind their back it’s a different story. During the story line of the film punishment is presented as Regina George loses her idolization following being hit by a bus. This punishment portrays ethics in the sense of Regina was unkind to her surrounding, cheats on her boyfriend, lies to her peers, disrespectful to her mother. As the story goes on Regina starts to lose friends as they begin to realize the kind of person she really is. This is presented as a source of punishment as well as toward the end of the film Regina gets hit by a bus to conclude her punishment of their wrong doing that portrays ethics. The movie the good girl does portray ethics with the pregnancy and cheating on her husband but the impact the punishment made to Regina in mean girls has a much greater
Steven McCornack, the author of “Reflect & Relate” describes friendship as “a voluntary interpersonal relationship characterized by intimacy and liking.” (McCornack, 355). As Cady begun high school, she quickly made real friends with Janis and Damian. The friendship wasn’t necessarily driven by shared interest at first because Cady was new girl to the school, who loved math and shy, while Janis and Damian are outspoken, love art, and don’t quite fit. But, they develop a shared interest when they are trying to take Regina George down, they meet every day after to create plans, Cady shares everything that Regina does or say and they find it funny. This produces an agentic friendship and communal friendship between Cady, Janis and Damian because they help each other achieve a common goal, such as ruining Regina’s life, but they are also invested on spending time with each other, doing activities like watching movies, eating lunch together and they provide emotional support when needed. Janis and Damian also accept Cady has she is, they didn’t try to change her, and were very hurt when Cady blew them off to throw a house party, which she didn’t even invite them too. A Cross-Oriented friendship is displayed between Janis and Damian because Damian is gay and Janis is a woman. It doesn’t damage their relationship because Janis accepts and supports Damian, she evens makes little remarks that Damian isn’t offended by
Take a second and imagine a life without social skills. You wouldn’t have the ability to tell when someone is being sarcastic or funny. Mean or nice. Simple things like this is out of your grasp for reasons you will never understand or be able to change.
In this film, Tracy is a prime example of an adolescent and much of what I have learned this year can be applied to her character. “Fitting in” is a concept that is seen a lot in adolescence. Teenagers will do pretty much anything at times to have friends or appear to be “cool.” That is exactly what happens to Tracy in this film. As the film begins, Tracy is a good, simple girl, and her pureness all changes when she befriends the most popular girl in school, Evie Zamora.
The other day in class, my friend showed a picture of a girl in our year level and we both giggled and picked apart every little thing that was wrong with her in this picture. Does this bitchiness make us feel better about ourselves? Girls these days so often find ways to belittle classmates, friends or even strangers. But where has this behavior come from? Why do girls feel the need to belittle others?