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The popular teen movie “Mean Girls” accurately portrays several concepts from Chapter Two including Interaction Appearance Theory and Undue Influence, just to name a few that allow teen viewers to see the type of communication there is or will be in high school. Through the interactions with her new peers, Cady Heron is able to communicate and experience several of the concepts learned in Chapter Two thanks to the interactions she had with the deceiving Regina George.
“Mean Girls” begins as Cady Heron moves back to the United States from Africa where her parents were animal experts. She has an awkward first week of school where she begins to crush on a boy named Aaron Samuels, meets Janice and Damian who show her around campus because no one really wanted to get to know her on a personal level. Janice and Ian begin to spill the dirty secrets of the school including “The Plastics” who are a superficial infamous group who put everyone down. “The Plastics” infiltrate an operation to make Cady one of them, but little do they know that it is all an act to show how fake they are, thanks to Janice Ian. Because Janice and Ian told Cady of all the bad that “The Plastics” hold, she had a schema that Regina George who is the leader of “The Plastics” and her crew, were bad people and that high school was all about popularity. The reason why Janice placed this schema was because she and Regina George used to be friends back in the day. Schemas can be bad or good, but in this case, it was quite bad. It was an act of vengeance. Although the schema may have made Janice and Damian despise “The Plastics,” it made Cady Heron want to be like them. Prejudice is found within “The Plastics” because they don’t just let anyone join their group, the gi...

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...eotyped “The Plastics” because of a past event(s). She told Cady all the negative aspects of Regina George and her clan.
The hit teen film, “Mean Girls” effectively portrayed the truth about popularity and high school in a satiric, yet exaggerated manner. “Mean Girls” allows teen girls to see the reality of high school by portraying the hastiness that is Regina George. Teen girls can view how horrible girls are in high school and can possibly change their ways when they’re in high school. The movie covered multiple points discussed in Chapter Two of the textbook through the adventures of “The Plastics.”

Works Cited

Dan O'Hair, Mary Wiemann, Dorothy Imrich Mullen, Jason J. Taven. (2012). Dan O'Hair, Mary Wiemann, Dorothy Imrich Mullen, Jason J. Taven. In M. W. Dan O'Hair, Real Communication: An Introduction (pp. 35-64). Boston, New York: Bedford / St. Martin's.

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