Stereotypes In Where D You Go Bernadette

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Where’d You Go Bernadette? is a thrilling comedy, that shows the life of an Odd Mom Out. Bernadette Fox has recently moved to Seattle with her Microsoft-savvy-working-husband, Elgin, and their outspoken daughter Bee. Seattle is a place in the United States that everyone has a stereotype of. Some thing Seattle people are weird, some say Seattle rains all the time. Here are some stereotypes that are actually true: there’s a Starbucks on every corner, it is rainy or overcast all year round, socks with sandals are acceptable, and no one uses umbrellas even when its raining (Archer 1-2). Like every city or town, there are always those who don't like where they are. When Bernadette and her family move to Seattle, she is not to happy to be there. Similar to Bernadette, some people cannot stand Seattle when they move their, like all the members of ihateseattle.com. One website member moved from the mid-atlantic to Seattle to go to school and he could not wait to leave. Out of all things he did not like “most of the people,” because, “there is a passive-aggressive tendency inherent in the population” ( 1). Like this website user, Bernadette’s biggest problem was the Galer Street School and the Galer …show more content…

It is a feeder school for students to Ivy League schools. In the world today there are many expensive elite schools, like the Galer Street School. These schools are basically the same as a normal school, but for the price of $20,000 and up. One of the most expensive schools, Riverdale Country Schools, located in the Bronx is $44,600 a year. Riverdale has a Upper (Grades 6-12) and Lower school (Pre-School - Grade 5). The school has a science, technology, engineering, art and math (S.T.E.A.M.) curriculum in that the pre-school to Fifth Grade classes follow. The Riverdale has the privilege to say that two of their alums are John F. and Robert Kennedy, who attended the Lower School (Jellett

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