control like Regina and was more powerful than her because she was able to destroy her. An even Cady believes this because she says, “I had learned how to control everyone around me.(Waters, 2004)” That was the case until Regina got hit by the bus and where her math teacher was on suspension for something Cady wrote in the burn book. That’s when she snapped out the fantasy world and realized that her action have consequences. Cady as she stated, sucked out all the poison in her life, and once the plastics broke up she no longer had a dominating style of life and began her journey to a social interest style of life. “I had gone from home-schooled jungle freak, to shiny Plastic, to most hated person in the world, to actual human being (Waters, …show more content…
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A movie about a girl in a clique that has to deal with teen suicide with a rebel teen heartthrob. To being our comparison of bad characters versus good girls gone bad; we have a girl named Veronica. Veronica is a teen that is sick of her popular friends. She is superior throughout the movie, because she isn’t compensating for anything nor does she feel inferior; but you can tell she is losing herself completely because of a hot bad boy. There are times where the main Heather is trying to control her; but she fights back and even when she falls to pressure she still tries to distance herself from them. This is what makes her--her own person. She is disgusted by people trying to gain something from the “suicides” at school and she’s disgusted with the other Heather when she notice her wearing main Heather’s bow. Those are great examples of her not trying to gain something for her own benefit. While she is a teen who is superior, her life style isn’t just social interest. The reason why I would say she is social interest because at the beginning we see that she is trying to talk to more people beyond her clique or social order. She also cares about others feelings and doesn’t see the “dorks” as just dorks. For an example, when Heather D tells Veronica that an unpopular girl tried to kill herself, “so she can copy the cool kids”; in shock and anger Veronica slaps Heather D. Another reason why Heather
Cady was blind sighted when she entered public high school without any idea of how “the system” works. She had to learn first-hand for herself the consequences of letting other people push you around. By the end of the movie Cady grew a backbone and was able to ascertain right from wrong, becoming her own
Cady has always been homeschooled, so she did not really know what it was like to communicate with others and make friends. She thought that her actions are what she should be doing in order to make friends. As Cady gets closer to The Plastics, she starts to develop feelings for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels. Later on in the movie Cady has to make a choice whether she wants to be officially part of the group or to continue sabotaging it. Eventually she decides to be part of the group, which disappoints Janis; since Cady basically betrayed her. Cady starts developing into a whole new person; she became a Plastic. Cady illustrates different types of interpersonal communication as she tries to make everything right again in her life. Throughout this movie, the girls show how their relationships consists of: social exchange theory, communication privacy management theory, unproductive conflict, and productive
Ava is a senior who is new to the school. With being new to the school, Ava wants to just get through the year with no drama. She is an unwilling participant in the Prom Bowl as the “Wild Card”. While not as skinny as the other girls in school, Ava doesn’t care about the social dynamics of the girls. The other main character is Mark Palmer, a typical senior football player. As the quarterback for the team, Mark is trying to earn scholarships for college. The character Mark has never had a long-lasting relationship in high school. Mark tries to save Ava from being involved in the Prom
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,
Teenagers in this film do not seem to care about themselves, therefore letting them act recklessly and violently. When Veronica questions her friends’ cruelty and mischief, one of the Heathers (Heather Duke) tells her to just suck it up, and that real life sucks. With this, Veronica has intentions of actually murdering Heather #1. When Jason discovers Veronica’s hate towards Heather #1 (Shannen Dohetry), as well as all her hatred towards her other friends, he sweet-talks her into killing Heather #1, therefore making it look like a suicide, eventually leading it to manslaughter. As the movie goes on, we are able to see how each of the Heathers “commit suicide” but actually, they are murdered by Veronica and Jason, the two lovers who are quite similar to Bonnie and
There was a form of ingratiation, when Cady finally decided she would be a part of the Plastics to get revenge on Regina. In the beginning of “being” a part of the Plastics she was there
Gretchen was not a helpless victim to Regina’s ruthlessness or a robotic follower. When pointing out Gretchen to Cady, Damien comments, "that's why
Her blame soon disintegrates and she comes back to her old identity. As a feature of her discipline for lying and falling flat Norbury's class, she joins the Mathletes in their rival. There, while going up against an ugly young lady, Cady understands that ridiculing the young lady's appearance would not prevent the young lady from beating her. She then understands that the best thing to do is simply take care of the issue before you and winds up winning the opposition after her adversary answers inaccurately. At the Spring Fling move, Cady is chosen Queen, however proclaims that all her colleagues are brilliant in their own specific manner, whereupon she breaks her plastic tiara and circulates the pieces. Cady presents appropriate reparations with Janis and Damian, accommodates with Aaron, and achieves a ceasefire with the
Her character and personality is a prime example of perfectionism. In the movie, she secures the title of “queen bee” within her group of friends. Regina controlled her friends on what to believe, what to say, and even what to wear. Showing no signs of sympathy, Regina refused to allow anyone below her standards of ideal into her small group of friends. Quickly, she mastered superiority making not only her friends feel inferior but also other peers. Annoyed at Regina’s manipulating, controlling, and self-centered ways, Regina’s group of friends turn their back to her. In the end, Regina loses her friends and becomes hated as a result of her perfectionism. Regina’s perfectionism leads to her social
Movies often don’t grasp this concept of teenagers struggling to fit in with their own group of friends. Denby states “lost in the eternal swoon of late adolescence, they’re (teenagers) thinking about their identity, their friends, and their clothes” (426). The most important thing too many teenagers in high school are fitting in. They idolize the idea of having a group of friends who are well known around school that other looks up too. The movie Never Been Kissed shows how teenagers often try to hard to gain and maintain friends. The main character who is a newspaper reporter goes back to school pretending to be a high school student. She tries to befriend a group of good looking rich kids and tries her best to impress them and she embarrasses herself in the process. The movie shows of allot of the average teenagers basic
On the second day when Jason tried to make fun of her, she did not know how to respond until Regina saved her. She did not know how to react in a situation like this. In the lecture, we discussed that peers allow us to make relations on our own. Peer interactions are spontaneous and non-structured. Peers can have an effect on our socialization and develop our sense of identity. When she entered high school, she was a nerd with good grades and did not know how to socialize. When Janice and Damien forced her to interact with the plastics and tell them what they talk about she agreed. At that time, she was not able to figure out that this is not good for her. Slowly her personality started changing and she became just like plastics. She started misbehaving with her parents, ditching Janice and Damien. She was getting used by people. She did not interact with peers before so she did not have the experience of it. But slowly she began to figure out that it is affecting who she is. In the beginning, Cady could not differentiate between her friends and enemies. Like the first 3 way call. Cady could not figure out about her real friends and she told Gretchen and Karen right away when she started liking Aron
The movie that I chose to do my analysis on, is Mean Girls because it is my all-time favorite movie. I watched it a million times, it never gets old and plus I know every single line in the movie. The main character Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan, exhibits how to go from being a nerd, popular, hated and rehabilitated all in one school year. It’s hilarious movie about high school but, it also covers many interpersonal concepts that we learned in class like: verbal communication, conflict and relationship dynamics. Before I provide my analysis, I’ll present my brief summary on the movie Mean Girls.
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...s a classic that shows just how nasty adolescent girls can be under typical circumstances. Nearly every character at one point shows adolescent egocentrism. There are numerous lifespan concepts covered throughout the movie. Cady Herron is a perfect example of how tough high school can be for an adolescent girl going through multiple changes. She goes through a lot more than the typical adolescent girl. However, I think she shows how staying true to yourself is important when going through high school. The "plastics" do a great job of displaying different relationships with peers. They have strong relationships with each other, but struggle to form these relationships with anyone outside of their group. All in all, Mean Girls does a great job of displaying parenting styles, egocentrism, relationships with peers, self worth in relationships, and juvenile delinquency.
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.