Lindsay Lohan is considered a tragic hero because she began her career as a well thought of young lady, but then her actions with the law resulted in a tragic downfall. Lindsay began her career as a young girl acting and modeling. She was most known for her bright red hair and many freckles. She also recorded a album with a company. She was known as a really well thought of actress. (Lindsay Lohan. Newsmakers) She was able to make people laugh and put smiles on people's faces. Then she had a drastic downfall. She got a big head and began to take drugs and get in trouble with the law. She refused to go to rehab to get the help she needed. She then spent some time in jail.
Lindsay Lohan began her career as a young model. She began modeling when
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she was a toddler in New York City. She was a very conservative, well thought of model. She did many commercials with well known companies. She modeled for Calvin Klein Kids, The Gap, and Abercrombie & Fitch Kids. She made commercials with Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Jell-O, and many other companies. This fame helped her get a landing in starring in a Disney movie. (Lindsay Lohan. Newsmakers) When Lindsay was older, she auditioned for a role in Disney’s The Parent Trap. She also acted in a soap opera previous to this audition. Lindsay landed the lead role in the remake of The Parent Trap. She didn’t play just one character, but two. She played both twins in this film. This film was her first big break in the acting field. This is the film that presented her as a comical actress. (Lindsay Lohan. Newsmakers) She began to make people laugh and smile. One of the many reasons she was a hero in some people’s eyes. As Lindsay got older, she became a big Disney movie star. She starred in numerous Disney films. She starred in Freaky Friday, Teenage Drama Queen, Life-Size, Herbie: Fully Loaded, and many others. She also starred in a very well known movie called Mean Girls. (Biography) This movie is still very popular today even though the movie was made thirteen years ago. Mean Girls is one of her most known for films.
This film is favorite of many teen girls and is still raved about today. This movie a comedy and made many people laugh. It is about a girl named Cady that was raised and homeschooled in Africa. Lindsay played Cady in this movie. She moves to the U.S. in Illinois because she wanted to see what it was like to live in America. She learns how to act like a normal American teenager. She befriends “the plastics”, which is the popular girls at the high school. She then begins to act snobby like them and tries to get revenge on the head leader of the plastics. Her character then realizes she is acting exactly like them and tries to change her ways. She breaks up the plastic group and then they are not hateful towards each other anymore. ( McCormick)
Lindsay is also a hero because she has donated to charities numerous times. She donated to The Red Cross, Angelwear, BID 2 BEAT AIDS, DoSomething.org, and Hear the World. Her goal was to help cure people of their needs. She helped these charities a lot. She even still donates to some charities today. ( Lindsay Lohan, Endorsements
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) In 2005 Lohan began to have her big downfall. She started to have a drinking problem because of all the conflict in her life. Her parents had a divorce, she had a feud with another famous actress, and her dad went to jail for some time because of assault. Lindsay was interviewed by magazine reporters and talk show hosts. She informed Gill Pringle of the Observer, "People try and dramatize every little thing I do, and it's hard dealing with stuff and having my friends read about me and them calling and being like, 'OK, I know this isn't true, but I just have to ask....' It's weird, but you deal with it." Lohan was often upset when her friends asked her about her personal life. Lindsay went to a rehab for drinking and went to alcoholic meetings. (Lindsay Lohan. Newsmakers) Lindsay Lohan began attending night clubs in New York city more often over time. She was often spotted by magazine tabloids. Her father’s sentenced to prison began to bother her more and more. Then in 2007 she started getting in trouble with the law. She wrecked her Mercedes Benz, in Beverly Hills, into a tree. She was found to have drugs in her system and had some cocaine on her. Then, soon after that, she go arrested for being involved with a car chase in Santa Monica, California. The oddest aspect of this car chase was that it was with a former assistant's mother. She had possession of a cocaine again and was said to be a serious amount. She spent time in jail again. She was charged with two counts of driving under the influence of drugs and then one charge for reckless driving. (Biography) She ran into even more trouble with one of those two car accidents. A woman named Tracie Rice was the passenger in her car in the second wreck. Rice sued Lohan for negligence and assault, but luckily she reached a plea deal on minor cocaine and drunk driving charges. She originally was charged four days in jail but already had twenty-four hours served. She then got the sentence shortened to one day because she spent ten days doing community service. The jail was overcrowded so her one day in jail turned into eighty-four hours. She helped with a hospital emergency room. (Biography) Later on, Lindsay Lohan put herself into a women’s detention center.
She went to the Los Angeles women’s detention center in Lynnwood. They took her in and searched her to make sure she had no drugs. They also pricked her finger and put her into a holding cell in the inmate reception area. The took care of her and tried to help her as best as they could. She seeked for help and wanted to change her ways. (Biography)
Lindsay Lohan has been to court over twenty times. She has visited four different judges in court. They sentenced her to six months in jail. Lohan also spent less than two weeks in jail out of the six times she visited the Los Angeles jail. She spent close to thirty-five days in her home confined. She lived in Venice, California during the time she was under house arrest. (Cable)
Lohan’s sentence also required her to have a decent amount of rehab. She was admitted to the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center. She spent her time at rehab in Sundance, Utah. She was in rehab for about two to three months. Lohan told OK! Magazine the the experience of the rehab was “sobering and humbling.” She told magazines that she planned to stay sober and to stay out of Los Angeles. She explained that’s where she is most likely to go back to her bad habits. For a while, no one heard much from Lindsay Lohan. She seemed to be keeping her word on staying sober.
(Biography) Lindsay Lohan had many ups and downs that lead to her downfall. She a tragic hero because she began her career making people laugh and happy, but then she got into drugs. She helped with charities and fundraisers. She then let her popularity get to her head and believed she could do anything without failing. She then began getting in trouble with the law and taking drugs. She refused to go to rehab and get the help she needed. She is truly a tragic hero and had a common tragic flaw. Her flaw was getting ahead of herself and thinking she could do anything since she was famous.She has nobody but herself to blame for her downfall.
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,
Lindsay Lohan is a prime example of a tragic hero because of how she increasingly let her arrogance influence her actions and behaviors throughout time. Her early life presented she had everything she needed for a promising future, and though the pinnacle of her life didn’t last long, it was fulfilled her to the highest extent. Herself, and the people and events she encountered in her life led her to her downfall infused with her infamous tragedies. Lindsay Lohan’s fatal flaw caused her to stray away from her promising future and delve into a world of mistakes.
Anelle Dupuy, played by Daryl Hannah, is a young woman straight out of beauty school and trying to start over in a new town after her husband mysteriously disappears, along with most of her belongings. Last but not least, we have Ouiser Boudreaux, played by Shirley MacLaine. She is abrasive, eccentric, rude and “richer than God”. She also happens to be my favorite character in the movie. The chemistry between these great actresses is what makes this movie one of the best, if not the best I’ve ever seen.
The film Mean Girls tells the story of sixteen-year-old Cady Heron and her new life as a high school student in the United States. She had previously been homeschooled due to her parents work as zoologists in Africa. Since it’s her first exposure to public school, she is a bit naïve and unaware of all the rules and customs. On her first day, she befriends Janis and Damian, who give her the rundown of different groups and personalities at North Shore High. Of all the groups, they recommend she steer clear of most dangerous one, the “Plastics” and their leader Regina George.
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
Mean Girls tells the story of Cady Heron’s transition from 12 years of home school in Africa to public high school in the United States when her mother gets offered tenure at a nearby college. Upon her arrival, Cady bonds with Janice and Damian who are considered apart of the “out crowd”. Janice and Damian give Cady the scoop on all of the social cues and how to navigate her new territory. When she is invited to join the most popular clique in the school, “The Plastics” Cady is placed in the middle of revenge and is encouraged to invade the lives of the girls to steal their secrets and eventually uproot their lives. Although this movie is primarily focused on revenge (which can be correlated with coercion, the least ideal form of leadership)
"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I also noticed self worth in relationships, parenting styles, and juvenile delinquency throughout Mean Girls.
The movie main character is Cady Heron who is a homeschooled girl. Her and her family lived in Africa for 15 years. They return back to the states and place Cady into a public school for the first time. Cady meets her classmates and finds a few good friends the introduce her to a group of girls called the Plastics. She ends up joining the plastics with the motive of bring them down because her new friend don’t like them very much and thought it would be funny. However, she eventually gets assimilated into the group of three unkind girls and starts to be just like them.
Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady Heron, who relocates from being homeschooled in Africa to high school in the United States. At first, she is naive to the status hierarchy of cliques that are prevalent in the school. But what turns from innocent sabotage of the school's top-of-the-food-chain clique known as "The Plastics" with the first friends that she met upon arrival to the school, becomes her transformation into their cold, hard, shiny, egocentric world.
In the movie, 16 year old Cady Heron was the daughter of zoologist parents. They had been on a 12 year research trip in Africa before returning to the states so Cady was homeschooled most of all her life. While attending public school for the first time, Cady is swept away by who she thought she was to the new person she had become. A “plastic” is what she had become. The Plastics were the most popular girls in school, but also the messiest and most insecure. Downing others to make themselves feel better was what The Plastics lived for. It took for chaos, confusion, and betrayal for them to get to the gist of who they really are as individuals. The adolescence period in one’s life is a very tough and exciting time. A teen is constantly going through changes daily; physically, mentally and emotionally. Those with a strong sense of self make a smooth transition during this period, while others still looking for a sense of belonging seem to struggle. During the middle school years, they begin to develop more interpersonal relationships and peer acceptance be...
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
From hitting No. 1 on the charts to rehabilitation centers, Britney Spears was a 90’s icon who had many ups and downs in her life. She faced obstacles and challenges, but still found time to produce No. 1 singles and albums. Britney Spears is an example of a tragic hero because she was a sensational singer of her time who was brought down by the many struggles in her life.
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.
Mean Girls is a comedy film aired in 2004 this film captures the influences on lifespan development during adolescence. The main character Cady Heron was home schooled in Africa and now she must transition into high school where she is tested in different areas of her development. Throughout the film she becomes known as the new girl who is trying to figure out her self-identity. Cady integrates herself into a clique of girls known as the Plastics, soon enough Cady understands why they are known for their name. The Plastics run the school by the norms they have created and must always be followed otherwise it will lead into exclusion from the group. In order to be socially accepted social norms determining attitude, behavior, and status must
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.