Mean Girls is a story of a teenage girl named Cady, she used to be homeschooling from Africa all her life. Her parents decide to move to Chicago, Illinois. For the first time in her life she was going to school. The very first day she tries to make friends but everybody rejects her, she even had to eat lunch at the girl’s restroom. The next day was better for her. Janis and Damien who looked to be reserved with her the day before, this day were more open to her and they explained to her a few things about the school, the different groups and the assigned table at the cafeteria for each group. Something on Cady call the attention of Regina the school queen bee and the leader of the plastics group, Regina invited Cady to seat with her group. Janis thought that it was a good idea to spy the plastics with the help of Cady. Janis and Damien convinced Cady to do it, and she accepted. She liked a boy named Aaron Samuels, he was Regina ex-boyfriend but Regina’s friend warned her that she can’t like him. Cady came up with the plan to “spy” the plastics. Regina tries to get with Aaron and Cady felt betrayed. Eventually Cady got …show more content…
too much in the roll of being plastics and becoming one of them but with her own plan to revenge Regina. In the movie there’s different teenager’s issues in this stage, such as egocentrism, bulling, sexual behavior, concerning for not gain weight, lesbianism, different peer group, parenting style.
By watching the movie, I notice that defamation between these teenagers is very used to obtain what they want, such as friends, boyfriend or popularity. Another issue presented in the movie is the sexual behavior, it looks like it’s important to them explore their sexuality. There’s different parenting style between Cady’s parents and Regina’s parents, it looks like Cady’s are more conservative and discreet than Regina’s, her mother, she is more “open minded”, with no rule as she said in the movie and with inappropriate discretion to be a parent, in my
opinion. For adolescents it’s important other peer’s opinion, like Psychologist David Elkind explains, believe of Personal fable, “The belief that the events of one’s life are controlled by a mentally constructed autobiography (Elkind, 1967), as observed in the movie, topics in our work book and in some real life situations, young teenagers worried more about what others would say about how they look, then what they actually want for themselves. In the movie it sees how important if for Cady be accepted, she got to the point of change her personality just to fit in a group of girls, that in her point of view on for the other people were the coolest ever, without counting that defamation of the other peers will be so much trouble and of course that will hurt people’s feelings.
First is the summary of the book and the movie. Hannah is a young Jewish girl. She was a brat and loathed going to family reunions because all her family talked about was the memory
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
The film Mean Girls is about a young girl, Cady Heron, born and raised in Africa by her zoologist parents, who were also her homeschool teachers for sixteen years. When Cady moves to the United States, she enrolls in a public school for the first time. Here she realizes that high school students have the same hierarchy as the animals she observed in Africa. The lowest ranking group in this high school hierarchy is the outcasts, who also happen to be Cady’s first friends in the U.S. The highest on the high school food chain are the “plastics”. The “plastics”, are the most popular girls in school. The plastic’s notice Cady’s charming personality and stunning good looks and invite her to join their clique. In order to avenge her first friends,
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
Development: The narrative follows part of these students' lives during a year at college, they are in each other's lives whether they know it or not. There are parallels drawn between them as the narrative progresses: Peace V War, Aggression V Pacifism, sides are taken and the racial lines are clear- stick to your own group like glue. How they fit in with the rest of the college population, Malik does this better than Remy and Kristen- he heads straight for the black population.
...he story with the various characters. Melinda’s acquaintance, Heather works hard at finding friends and becoming popular, but in the end she turns away from Melinda. The story is about the high school years. Many times when we are growing up we can’t wait to get there because we will be treated as adults, but the truth is the problems that come along when we are older can be difficult. The various clans of students help present the theme by showing us that there are many different types of people. The popular cheerleaders, the jocks, the geeks and those who are just trying to fit in. Melinda transforming the janitor’s closet symbolizes her hiding her feelings and Melinda’s inability to speak and tell people what happened to her. High school can be fun but unfortunately through the eyes of Melinda it was a very hard time.
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
...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.
Regina George is a junior in high school who is described as teen royalty. As the leader of her clique referred to as “The Plastics”, she rules the school with her best friends Gretchen Weiners and Karen Smith loyally at her side. The three girls feed off of tearing the other girls in the school down and diminishing them by writing awful rumors and secrets in the “Burn Book”. With her tall and skinny physique, bright blonde hair and good-looks, she uses her sex appeal and superiority to manipulate and victimize the people around her including her family. Regina easily controls her family members. Her mother worships the ground Regina walks on and desperately looks to her for acceptance. Her ability to make other girls at school feel inferior fuels her power, as queen bee Regina is seen as the “it” girl. Everyone wants to look like her, dress like her, and be just like her. She uses her sex appeal to get any guy she wants and dangles them around everyone else to make them jealous.
When I watched this movie it was easy for me to see that the Plastics greatly affected how Cady and others at the school acted, talked, and dressed. In one scene Regina George, the ultimate mean girl and leader of the Plastics, returned to the locker room to find that her tank top had been cut in two places. She shrugged her shoulders and put it on, knowing
In the film Mean Girls, teenager Cady Heron was home-schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. When her family moves to the U.S., Cady finally gets a taste of public school and learns a vital lesson about the cruelty involved in the tightly knit cliques of high school. She eventually finds herself being drug into a group of “the worst people you will ever meet”, The Plastics; and soon realizes how they came to get their name.
First, Cady is assumed to be black by her teacher when she mistaken her for an African-American girl on the first day of class and by Karen who is intrigued by her nationality “So if you are from Africa why are you white?”. Second, the name of her native country is ignored because Africa is often portrayed as one big rural country with jungle animals. As stated before, these statements are intently not directly offensive because they are addressed to white girl but this doesn’t make them less racist. On another hand, one of the high school’s clique is the “unfriendly black hotties”, this categorization entails that they are all as popular as the Plastics but are unfriendly because of their ‘un-whiteness’- even though Regina, Gretchen, Karen and Cady are as mean if not meaner. Asians are also targeted in this movie, as cool or nerds. It’s obvious that they are Vietnamese but are still labeled Asians following the “us vs. them” strategy. The representation of race in this film implies the primary rule to be popular which is to be white or else the person is considered less valuable.
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.
Mean Girls sends the message to women that they should not criticize one other to feel some type of empowerment. The way women criticize each other can be very aggressive, this act make women gives them the feeling of confident that there is someone who they consider lower than they are. When the movie Mean Girls first starts the female students of the school are continually judging and gossiping about one another. Because of this, it caused friction between the female students. Throughout the movie the consist fighting between girls gets worst. This friction causes women to feel the need to fight amongst one another. For example, The Plastics owned a book called the Burn Book where they wrote terrible things about their classmates but, once the book got out, the female students being fight even more. Once they stop feeling the need to bring each other down, the atmosphere of school changed. For instance, the different cliques were able to it and talk to about ...