Mean Girls By Cady Heron

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Throughout high school, I have come to many conclusions regarding my friends, my image, and my personality. I realize that I don’t need to conform to the stereotypical cliques in high school. In the same way, Cady Heron from the film Mean Girls, undergoes a transformation during her high school experience. Cady is intelligent but desperate for acceptance. She develops problems with her new friends, old friends, and her own personality. In the end, she realizes an important truth and strives to make peace in her life. Cady has zero friends when entering high school, but soon is befriended by Janis and Damian, labeled by others as “art freaks”, and Cady eagerly accepts their friendship. Cady is informed of the “Plastics”, three socialites who are adored by most of the student body. When the Plastics befriend Cady, Janis uses Cady to sabotage the group. However, Cady succumbs to the fame of being Plastic and her personality changes, ruining her friendship with Janis and Damian. Meanwhile, the head Plastic, Regina George, discovers Cady’s initial intentions and, in anger, uses a book of insults for girls in the school to frame Cady and the other Plastics. Cady makes a tough decision to admit she wrote the …show more content…

Cady was pulled between a group of friends who accept her as she is and a group of friends who like her but try to change her to fit a different image. In the same way, I have a group of friends who are primarily female, but also have male friends. I can be myself when I’m with my female friends, but it isn’t the same with my male friends. I appreciate them and I know they appreciate me, but I sometimes feel I have to be different around them. I’m not conspiring against them like Cady conspired against the Plastics, but I relate to how Cady’s true personality was compromised in the conflict between the

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