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At the climax of the film Cady has figured out “how to control everyone around [her]”, from her peers to her family. She makes the people around her angry and annoyed with her behaviours. “You try to act like you're so innocent” Janis declares frustratedly. Cady’s reasoning for her judgmental and selfish behaviour is that she is pretending to be and act like a Plastic, when in fact she has been influenced by The Plastics so much that she has turned into one herself. Cady had not acknowledged that she had become a Plastic, though in her heart she knows that she had become one. Cady knew The Plastic’s bullying behaviours were not always right including The Burn Book. Cady knew The Burn Book was wrong and that you should only treat people the
way you want to be treated, but she wanted to follow The Plastics and be around them, and was pressured to follow their rules and practices. Through this process she hurts a lot of people looses close relationships with her friends Damian and Janis, Aron and her parents. It takes Cady a long time to realise that being a Plastic is not worth loosing all these friends. After Cady owns up to writing the burn book, her mother tells her “I don’t know what to believe anymore…Who are you?”. “…you’re not pretending anymore. You're Plastic. Cold, shiny, hard Plastic.” Janis explains to Cady who hasn’t made this realisation for herself yet. Cady’s behaviour could be (an eventually is) changed by her following the advice of Janis and Damian to take the hints of her friends.
The Cay was about a boy named Phillip who becomes blind after being hit over the head during a major storm.Phillip has to learn how to care for himself being blind which is a huge challenge.But gratefully he meets Timothy so he can help him learn how to care for himself.
What would you do if you were stranded on a raft with a complete stranger? Believe or not, Phillip and Timothy in the book The Cay were put in this situation regardless if they wanted to or not. In The Cay these two acquaintances try to find their way back to civilization after being in one precarious situation to the next. Phillip, who is the main character, changes his ways and views through the book thus making him a dynamic character. After leaving his homeland in VIrginia, Phillip is forced to live in Curacao with his family where he must adapt to his new environment. Just as he settles into his new home he must travel back to Virginia, and while on the trip back, things take a turn for the worse. He is stranded, and must find help or civilization with aid from Timothy. Phillip, in the book The Cay, is a dynamic character because he reveals his inner traits which include dependence, proactiveness and naiveness.
When you git through tellin’ me how tuh cut uh plug uh tobacco, then you kin tell me whether mah behind is on straight or not’” (Hurston 98-9).Janie is upset with Jody that he will judge her on her appearance and actions. It is sad how this is still going on today, not only with women but transgenders. The past few years were very hard for transgenders and gays. They were cursed, made fun of, and killed. People judged them on their appearance and not on their personality. As a Christian the Bible never believed in gay marriages and transexually but I believe that people are people and they deserve to love somebody like how a woman and a man love each other. But why did Janie wait all this time to feel free? I understand that whenever she tried to speak to Jody about their relationship that he will become crazy but why did she not leave him when he first made her feel this way? This statement is very symbolic. This shows that if you keep fighting until the end that you will make history and feel strong and
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,
Jody believes that Janie has poisoned him, illustrating the magnitude of both of their unhappiness. Almost immediately after Jody dies, Janie “starches” and “irons” her face, which could also imply how the headrags represent a facade that she unwillingly dons in public. Janie goes to the funeral inundated in loneliness and grief. However, after she emerges from the funeral Janie burns all of her head rags. Hurston states: “Before she slept that night she burnt up everyone of her head rags and went about the house the next morning..her hair in one thick braid”(pg 89). Fire represents the destruction of something; by burning the very tool that was facilitating the suppression of her identity, Janie is making a vow to never sacrifice herself to others. The long, nimble braid the reader is introduced to in the first chapter reemerges. It is important to note that as she lets her hair down, her circumstances change for the better. Janie meets Tea Cake, her playful new husband. Hurston describes Janie as the curious, vibrant child she was under the pear tree similar to how she is presently with Tea Cake. Therefore, Hurston reveals the overarching theme that when one unwillingly enshrouds their identity, their circumstances become unpalatable. This theme is conveyed through JAnie: As she sacrifices herself to tie her hair up, her happiness devolved into loneliness. However, once she crosses the threshold to her true self, she fully exuded the vivacious Janie that she truly is. All of this is manifested through her
Penny is materialistic. I know she is because she forced Cady to tell Harris how much she loves certain things around the house, like table clothes, so she can have them. In the book, it also said she changed everything, in the silverware when Cady’s dad left because material possessions make her happy. Penny is also caring. She does her best to make Cady feel better after the accident, like telling her everyday what happened, even though it hurts her to retell the story. She doesn't like her ex-husband but lets Harris pay for Cady go to Europe with her dad to make her feel
"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.
Have you ever thought about the evolution of developing a character trait over a course of unfortunate events, just because those things happened? Well, that’s basically what happened in the book, The Cay by Theodore Taylor. The main character in this book, Phillip Enright, has to live through some pretty bad events, but ends up having some major character changes that help him get off the island. In The Cay Phillip’s character reveals that through many problems and events he developed independence, maturity, and determination.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, once said “frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action” (values.com). When one thinks of compassion, sympathy and sorrow come to mind. However, compassion also is accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. This can be accomplished by standing up for what one believes is right. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee deeply develops her theme that compassion is understanding someone else’s perspective and using this compassion to stand up against society.
People that are self-centered are always thinking about themselves, and never think about how other people feel. Sometimes it may be good to be selfish;however, it’s never good to be selfish all the time.Being selfless is a very hard thing to find nowadays;however, two examples of generous people are Arthur “Boo” Radley and our parents.
In Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel, “Coraline,” the story takes place in a rather boring/simplistic time in which a young girl named Coraline, is always in seek of a new/better adventure. Coraline is explores her gray world and eventually comes across another world in which she finds her “other mother” who seems to portray Coraline’s view of the “perfect” lifestyle. The main idea of this text is selfishness, however the complex lesson that the story develops is how selfishness teaches us that we should self-reflect on selfish behavior and fix our actions so therefore we can avoid negative outcomes later.
Quentin’s depiction of Caddy’s loss of innocence is one in which he blames himself. The suicidal Harvard student blames himself for Caddy’s pregnancy and hurried marriage. Quentin repeats...
Janie’s grandmother describes how she does not want any man, regardless of race, to make a “spit cup” out of Janie (20). A spit cup is a small jar used to spit chewing tobacco in, and was used extensively in the South during this time period. Rather than explicitly stating that she does not want men to attempt to take advantage of her granddaughter, the grandmother uses a common, everyday item to describe how she does not want any man to treat her granddaughter as if she is just some object to be used at one’s disposal. Afterwards, Janie’s grandmother describes herself as a “cracked plate” that must be handled with care (20). Through the use of this term, the grandmother explains how she is both damaged and fragile, and thus cannot be mishandled or else she will fall apart. Hurston uses these terms to attempt to evoke sympathy from the audience for the grandmother and to further establish the grandmother as a multi-dimensional character. Although she has proven herself capable of physically hurting Janie, she has also proven herself to be worn-out. A parallel can be drawn between the grandmother acting violently and then lovingly and Tea Cake inflicting violence and then expressing his love for Janie. Janie is forced to juggle feeling hurt by being violently struck by those she loves and continuing to feel love for the perpetrators of violence against
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
In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals through many conflicts that he developed independence, confidence, and maturity.