Mean Girls Research Paper

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Mean girls is possibly the most captivating movies for teenage girls in the 2000’s, with Lindsay Lohan starring, high school drama, and bullying, but it is also a relatable funny story about girls coming of age. This all starts when a homeschooled Candy Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is thrown into a high school when her parents decide to move back to the United States from Africa. Of course almost every high school has their “popular group” and in this case they were called the plastics (Waters, Mean Girls). Candy is warned to stay away from them, but gets sucked into their world. Candy is wanting to fit in and not be an outcast since she is new to this whole high school scene. The plastics have a burn book, which includes rumors and secrets about …show more content…

The lead girl of the plastics, Regina George (Rachel McAdams) has a boyfriend who is also popular, but Candy develops a crush on him. Regina finds out and embarrasses Candy at a Halloween party. That is when Candy realizes how awful of a person Regina truly is. Candy is growing up here and has to make the tough decision to join forces with Janis who also wants to end the plastics (Waters, Mean Girls).
Once Regina discovers what Candy is up to she starts spreading the contents of the burn book to the rest of the school. To ensure she is not the one to blame Regina inserts a page about herself, so the only person not in the book is Candy (Waters, Mean Girls). Ultimately Candy takes on responsibility of making the book. She has realized Regina will never take blame, so she needs to step up to the plate for the rest of the school to end all this madness.
One of the punishments for Cady is she has to join the mathletes at their competition. Cady realizes this is the perfect opportunity to do something great for the school and ends up winning. When the new school year starts the plastics are no longer a thing and all the members are now part of something bigger than themselves. They have either joined a sports team or another group to help

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