Adam Bagdasarian Analysis

In the short story, Popularity, by Adam Bagdasarian, the narrator yearns to be popular. As the school year goes by the narrator immensely looks up to the popular kids wanting and wanting to be one of them. One day the narrator decided to go up to the popular boys to try and get into their circle. When the narrator arrives he couldn't get noticed. The next day he tried again and was able to get noticed by making a joke that caused everyone to laugh. Soon, the narrator became on of the popular kids.After a while the narrator realizes being popular isn't all that great. Because of this event, the he changes. The narrator is the dynamic character who started off thinking that being popular was so cool. At the end one the narrator was popular he

These being: family, schools, peer relationships, mass media, and work. Throughout the film, we see the growth of character in Will. He begins in the movie as the mishap trouble maker with a brilliant mind that’s being wasted because his inner demons are holding him hostage. Through the progression of his time in therapy, we can tell that will did not have the best home life. We discover that he was a victim of child abuse, both physical and mental. Because of this, he grows up believing that he is not worth much and will not amount to anything. Family is a big part of the way we grow up to perceive ourselves and present ourselves to others. Wills family did not show him that he was good enough so he believed he wasn’t and found solace in his school work. With the help of his peer relations and school, Will was “re-socialized” and succeeded beyond what he could have ever imagined. With the help of this therapist and time, Will resolved the resentment and attachment issues he has had since he was a child and begin to form new relationships while allowing others into his mind a bit more. This change in his life was all brought on by the professor teaching him. If he hadn’t intervened with the court and suggest that in place of jail time, Will could study under him and see a therapist, will would have never gotten better and advance much further in life. With the help of peer relations and school, will became a new and improved

For example, when confronting an old foster home “Friend”, by the name of Carmine, Will unleashed an onslaught of punches, which lead to Will Knocking out Carmine then being arrested for assault by the local cops. When Will saw his old friend, memories of the abuse that his foster family gave him sprang onto Will’s head and triggered his mind to give some payback for everything that he experienced as an abused kid in the foster home. Not only that but his mood drastically changed from the moments prior to seeing Carmine. Before seeing Carmine, Will was planning to have a good time with his friends at a baseball game, But that changed as he saw Carmine at the game as well. Once he saw Carmine, Will was determined to beat Carmine up, as carmine did to him when he was a kid. Clearly in the movie, Will is a mathematical genius, as he was able to solve the problem that Professor Lambeau wrote on the chalkboard outside his room. However when Lambeau confronted Will, after he found out who solved the problem, Will ran away from the professor instead of being congratulated for his success in solving the problem. A valid reason why Will did not accept the praise from the professor was because he had a negative self-image of himself. To understand what a negative self-image is, it is important to know what the term self-image means. Karl Perera, from the website, More-selfesteem.com defines the term self-image as, “ how you see yourself. This may be how you see yourself physically or your opinion of who and what you are which is normally called self concept. It is important as it

First of all popularity can make you mean. What I mean by that is he pushes his other friends aside, in the story the author said Will stared across the black tar and cement this is where his fate stood he could either shrink until he could no longer be seen by the naked human eye or become part of the popular kids. “I took a deep breath and then, with great trepidation, crossed the twenty longest yards I had ever crossed in my life.” Next, He also insulted mitch when he wore yellow pants and a yellow shirt. The author wrote in the story “I pointed at mitch's yellow pants and shirt then said “someone else needs a mirror you look like a canary.”” This is how popularity can make mean.

Will 's group of friends seem to pick on him and judge him, which questions if they are truly his friends or not and if he truly fits in with him.

The main focus is placed on Will, whom has a rare genius to put together abstract math problems and finds it hard to relate to world without getting arrested for doing something violent and rebellious. He grew up in South Boston and the hard streets have jaded him, while his intelligence further isolated him from people and made him hostile to other people. In the beginning of the film, Will is discovered by Lambeu (Stellan Skarsgard) a professor of mathematics, and his well-being becomes a serious issue and he is pursued. While placing a difficult math problem on the chalkboard

Author, Alexandra Robbins, in her novel The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, describes her quirk theory and establishes its credibility as she centers her theory around seven different characters as she narrates their high school experiences. Robbins focuses on the negative effects of popularity and how social norms can affect an individual, regardless of what social group they belong to. She creates an amusing, informative tone in order to appeal to the geeks, freaks, and popular crowds with relatable experiences and strong essays in regards with the social scene, exclusivity, and how one handles a given situation.

They drank and picked fights together which resulted in his arrest and incarceration. However, his friends wanted the best for him as evidenced by his friend Chuckie’s statement to him that he owed it to him to make something of his life. Will’s friends also bought him a car to assist him with his commute to work.

Christopher McCandless and Adam Shepard are two wealthy young men who decided to embark on a project, which ended in two different ways. Although the two men had the same goal and the same background their strategies proved them to be exceedingly different. The challenge itself showed courage and a tremendous amount of self reliance, but looking deeper it also showed work ethics , character and purpose. Both men took on the challenge to start with nothing, however only one of them ended with financial stability and the happiness they were both searching for. Having that being said, Adam Shepherds project served a greater purpose because he was able to economically move up in life, he did not burn bridges, and more importantly he proved his

Life is full of conflicts. In the book The Island by Gary Paulsen, Will Neuton faces many conflicts. Whenever things start to go good for Will, they are somehow ruined by his family. Will must learn how to overcome the problems he faces and be happy with his new life and new friends.

    There are, apparently, many qualifications that you have to reach in order to be popular. If you did not wear the same brand of clothing or did not act like them, you were not popular. In the fifth grade, I was bullied from two main girls that I foolishly wanted to be. Well not a bully ,but to be “popular” like them. One of the two girls was my friend. At least I thought she was. I guess she was using me for when her and her best friend would get into a fight and then she would use me for a friend. She told me i was her friend; she just did not want her best friend to find out she was hanging with me. In other words, she was embarrassed of me. Her best friend was the

This led to Will joining the dog sled race. He was by far the youngest and the least experienced. However, he did it for his family, which motivated him throughout the entire race. He did not give up when people tried to stop him, or bribe him to drop out of the race, which helped him stay on the front page, making him famous. Will became widely known, because of the hardships he overcame, shining a beacon of light on the American citizens.

Popularity in the book Jake Reinvented is how different characters act to get all the things they want including friends. One plot event is at a party. Jake Garrett, the new kid at school is throwing them every Friday night because he wants to become popular with the whole Scott Fitzgerald High school. He can throw his parties because his dad travels a lot for his a business job and is not home much, sometimes he’s gone five out of seven days. His mom lives in another state because his mom and dad got a divorce. Jake makes the money to throw his parties by writing papers for college students. Even though he’s only in high school, he is smart and can do a good job on papers for college students. Rick Paradis who is a kicker and back up quarter back on the high school football team likes going to the parties too but just wants to hang out with everyone.

In one case, Will’s side consisted of him a foreign exchange student named Hans, and two girls whose hearts he hadn’t broken yet. The rest of his peers were massed behind Mike, eager to see him put in his place. Consequently, Will has been taking his friends for granted, and in return his friends are rooting for his appointed Mike. I can infer that his friends can see how much they were taken advantage of, and are fighting for Will to be put in his place. In fact, Will had foolishly broken up with Linda ten months before the fight.

Will and John's struggle to leave their comfort zone and attend the academy is similar, but how they cope with the plebe system is different! Will must immediately leave his comfort zone when asked by his dad to attend the institute. It took Will a lot of courage and bravery to carry out his dad's last dying wish. During Will's plebe year he faces a lot of challenges! Just like everybody else, Will struggles to fit into the plebe system. In only his second week at the Institute, he says "When I called my mother after the second week I wept as soon as I heard her voice. She sounded kind and gentle and I had forgotten what it was like to talk to someone who loved me. I told her that it was dreadful, that I had made a terrible mistake, that I