Miss Popularity is a fantastic book for young teen girls who are growing up, making their own decisions, as well as developing a sense of self confidence and respect. This book could serve as a good pep talk to those younger girls who might need reassurance that they are in charge of their own happiness. The main character is fresh, original, and has one huge personality. You’ll see for yourself through this summary.
Cassie Knight has everything a girl wants: popularity, best friends, great personality, and, of course, a fabulous fashion sense. Her dad eventually gets a promotion, and Cassie will move from sunny Houston to the frozen lands of Maine. However, being Cassie, she doesn't let this get her down. Cassie is the kind to always remain
Female beauty ideals are an overwhelming force in teen media. Approximately 37% of articles in leading magazines for teen girls emphasize a focus on physical appearance. This is none to surprising considering two of the top contenders in this media genre are Seventeen and Teen Vogue. CosmoGIRL and Elle Girl were among the ranks of popular teen magazines, but in recent years have become exclusively online publications. Add in a dash of publications Tiger Beat and Bop, and it becomes glaringly obvious that girls are charged with the prime directive of looking good to get the guy. The story becomes more disturbing when the actual audience, which includes girls at least as young as eleven years old, is considered. In a stage when girls are trying for the first time to establish their identities, top selling publications are telling them that their exteriors should be their primary concern of focus. Of course, this trend doesn’t stop with magazines. A study conducted in 1996 found a direct correlation between the “amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos” a...
In the Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria both display straightforward, hardworking, and stubborn character traits. Firstly, Homer and Mother Maria both display a straightforward personality by being brutally honest about their opinions. For example, when Mother Maria asks Homer to build a chapel, Homer speaks his mind by telling her he does not want to build it. Mother Maria shows her straightforward behavior during Homer’s stay at the convent. One morning, when Homer sleeps in late, Mother to becomes extremely upset and is not afraid to show how she feels about him. Secondly, both Homer and Mother Maria display a hardworking spirit. Homer is a hardworking man because after finally agreeing to build the chapel,
Christopher Johnson McCandless, the main character in the book “Into the Wild,” had made a lot of friends even though he did not like people. Wayne Westerberg was one of Chris’s friends who he met in a bar. Chris also befriended a girl named Jan Burre. Another person who befriended Chris was a guy named Ronald Franz,
In The Big Field, author Mike Lupica explores the theme, "Success uses motivation as fuel." Lupica portrays this theme through the main character, Hutch. Throughout the entire book, Hutch, a young boy that has just recently joined a highly talented baseball team, displays moments that exemplify this main theme. Hutch and his team have a chance to play in the stadium of the Miami Marlins, a Major League Baseball team, as long as they can keep winning games and advancing through a challenging tournament; however, Hutch's favorite position on the field, shortstop, the position located between 2nd and 3rd base, has already been filled on the team. Unfortunately, Hutch gets a demotion from shortstop, to second base, the position located between 1st base and 2nd base. Although Hutch was disappointed and melancholy about the switch in position, he was even more upset about the downgrading of leadership, since the
"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing and inwardly are ravening wolves," (Matthew 7:15 New testament KJV). Matthew, from the New Testament, preached to those around about false teachers, who will lie and deceit others. O'Connor was a strong believer in her faith, due to her strong beliefs O'Connor incorporates her beliefs through archetypes, themes, and symbols.
Piaget believed that a child’s development is neither intrinsic (learning based on interest) or extrinsic (learning from an outside force, such as a parent). He believed that a child develops based on his or hers interactions in the environment (Mooney 2000). Piaget created four stages of cognitive development, some of which can be seen in the film “Cheaper by the Dozen”. A few examples of characters that display Piaget’s theory are the twins, who are in the preoperational stage and lack the concept of conservatism, and the mastermind, who is in the concrete operational stage and show's the concept of decentralism. These characters will have Piaget’s theory applied to them in the following paragraphs.
The protagonist of Most Likely to Succeed is Katherine “Kaye” Beale Gordon. She is a senior in high school, vice-president of student council, and head cheerleader at her high school. She is the epitome of what every high school girl imagines: popular and in control. Kaye exhibits the two character traits of proactiveness and prestigiousness. Kaye exemplifies proactiveness by already having her life planned out, for after high school. Throughout Most Likely to Succeed, Kaye continuously talks about what she planned. At the beginning, she talks about having plans with her highschool sweetheart, Aidan. They planned to “establish [their] banking careers, and then getting married,” for which she had known the plan for “three
What would you do if you found out that your sister had mailed out your secret love letters to all of your past crushes and suddenly they’re all comforting you for it? That’s exactly what Lara Jean experienced in Jenny Han’s young adult novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. The setting of the story takes place in modern time in Montpelier, Virginia and there it mentions their school, home, ski resort, etc. The main characters in this book are Lara Jean, Peter, Kitty, Josh and Margot. LJ is our antisocial goody-two-shoes protagonist who’s “cute in a quirky way.” She’s the exactly the type of person to spend time at home baking with her family than going to the party, that everyone’s been raving about. Peter is described as popular, cocky,
We don't see many people in the world who express individuality. However, we see popularity and amount of followers we have on our Instagram to represent our reputation in the public. In the novel, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, we can see that individuality can still be expressed even if the whole school despises you. The main character, Stargirl, demonstrates how to be yourself and how it's better to be yourself than to become someone else.
AP English Literature and Composition MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET Title: A Raisin In the Sun Author: Lorraine Hansberry Date of Publication: 1951 Genre: Realistic Drama Biographical Information about the Author Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. She grew up as the youngest in her family. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a real estate broker.
This book is trying to show the struggle that many young girls experience and the reasons to why the adolescence years to prove to be such a period of, underachievement, anger, and pain in the lives of girls who can be bright and talented girls. A few of Mary Piphers points that she stresses throughout the book are, girls today are much more distressed, anxious, and uncomfortable than before. The society in which they are coming of age is more dangerous, sexualized, and media saturated, the culture is indeed a girl poisoning one.
“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brothers brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” (p.27)
Even though during this time Miss America Corporation had tried to changed their idea of pageants to be more of a prestigious and empowering competition, they still created false hope. The hope that one day a young girl: a daughter, a friend or relative would amount to Miss America; however kept families watching. Popular culture wanted people to t...
In the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, Dr. Rank is not one of the main characters in the play. Even though he does not partake in a big role in the play, some of his actions and words have a great effect on the characters and the play’s outcomes. Dr. Rank is somewhat ignored and is an undervalued character because of his reduced role and line numbers, but his very small actions do have direct impact on the play. His relationships with Nora and Torvald play a big part, because he helps to reveal their true characters. Dr. Rank is also used as a symbolic device, to help the reader look deeper into the plot. It may seem as though he is just a friend and admirer from afar, but his role has a deeper meaning. Dr. Rank’s role in the play is to reveal the true individuals in the play and he is important in helping the reader discover the true personalities of the main characters.
It seems as though that popularity is a main issue to teens. The need to feel accepted by others in order to be the center of attention, and the need to be distinguished greatly from everyone else is a strong force that exposes itself to nearly all teens at school. We spend most of our years at school, and begin well-known can almost seem to complete an emptyness that we feel.