Cliques

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A clique is a small, exclusive group of people who share the same interests and do not readily allow others to join them. Cliques are formed when people have things in common. There are many reasons why teenagers join cliques, but one of the most prevalent is the need to fit in. Cliques are important because they allow kids freedom from their parents. Kids, especially teenagers, want to do things on their own and they can within these cliques. Peers support one another inside the group. If tragedy strikes, the members are typically the first ones to aid their friend and offer their help. Lastly, cliques help teenagers feel accepted in society. Often, adolescents feel as if they aren’t good enough and are constantly tearing themselves down. …show more content…

High school is where teenagers lose friends, and will stumble upon disappointment. Adolescents are often bullied in high school, too. They can be bullied for how they look, the kind of clothes they wear, who they hang out with, or the kind of grades they receive. In Rosalind Wiseman’s book “Queen Bees and Wannabees”, she did an exercise with a group of girls. In this exercise, she asked them to describe the characteristics and appearance of a girl with a high social status, and then describe a girl with a low social status. The girls listed the following characteristics for the girl of high social status: pretty, confident, hangs out with the right guys, nice on the outside, happy, money, thin, in control, popular, and athletic. They listed these characteristics for the girl of low social status: shy, fat, acne, too opinionated and cause oriented, and …show more content…

Wherever there were large groups of teenagers, they separated themselves into groups. When the Unwinds were in the warehouse waiting to be transported to Graveyard, Roland rose to power and recruited kids to be in his group, which would be the Popular clique in modern times. After Connor, Risa, and Lev picked up the baby, they went to a nearby school to escape the Juvey Cops. I’m sure there were cliques in that school, even though I have no evidence. Unless the cliques were abolished in the time frame Unwind was set, cliques would survive in some form. What would happen if the world didn’t have cliques? Without cliques, people would not be in segregated groups. All the humans would associate with one another and there wouldn’t be any divisions between types of different people. The boho/ free spirit types would be friends with the professional athletes. The members of high society would go for a walk in the park with the poor. Everyone could be united as one without

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