Comparing Diary Of Wimpy Kid, Mean Girls

When we were all younger, we all watched those movies about teenagers in highschool. Some of these movies and tv shows include Diary of Wimpy Kid, Mean Girls, and even 13 Reasons Why. The plots of these films are based around the typical life of a teenager in highschool. The images that are shown in these movies make the incoming freshman scared and dread the start of high school. Such events include bullying, nasty lunch foods, and cliques running the school. But in reality these events aren’t true and are only present in movies. As a matter of fact, most of these events are inaccurate from current High School life. The differences between the images portrayed of bullying, lunch foods, and cliques in movies is considerably distinct in reality.

In the movie Mean Girls, a couple of friends decide to bully the new girl at school by pretending to be her friend. This makes people in high school scared that they are going to have fake friendships and people using them. Other expectations of High School include the freshman being shoved into lockers and given wedgies. For example, in the movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg is given a wedgie multiple times throughout the plot. Considering that most adolescents watched this film, they often are afraid of bullies causing harm to them. Most of the bullying that is expected is through physical and verbal bullying.

Although every high school is different, from my experiences with high school, bullying isn’t really present physically. There definitely is bullying but it is more presence of cyberbullying and there is almost no physical bullying. For instance, there was a couple times in the hallways I could recall someone saying something bad about someone over a social media site. Throughout my four years of high school, physical bullying was absent from my

First off, there is a lot of choices and a pretty decent selection of foods to choose from. Although the food isn’t great, it isn’t as bad tasting as the movies play it off to be. I personally liked some of the food that the school made. For example, my high school had some appetizing orange chicken and rice. Although, at the same time my school had some nauseating pizza. The scenes shown in movies about lunches are way different than the truth of lunches.

A common perception of a high school scenery, is the presence of cliques. In movies there is always that one group of “populars” that rule the school and everyone wants to be like them. The “populars” tend to be attractive and good at sports. For example in Mean Girls, there is a group called the “plastics”. Everybody wants to be like them because of their attractive looks and glamorous smiles. These pictures make up and coming freshman intimated to be themselves and show a sense of individuality amongst themselves.

The reality of cliques in high school is completely different in real life. There are some cliques present but they aren’t to the extremes that the movies tell us. No clique rules the school and there are no “populars” that everyone wants to be