Argumentative Essay On Mean Girls

In Mean Girls (2004), Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a new student at North Shore High School. Throughout the film we hear the narration of Cady and witness the Bildungsroman of her character. Bildungsroman is known as “a specific subgenre of coming-of-age stories that focus on the protagonist’s psychological and moral growth. Hence, character change is extremely important” (Kusina, 2015). She has a major culture shock when she goes from being homeschooled in Africa to being a part of the most popular clique in school: “The Plastics”. In the beginning of the movie, Cady could be described as nerdy, awkward, and a typical home schooled “virgin”. She makes friends with Damian (Daniel Franzese) and Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) who tell her all about the politics of their high school. Janis and Damian give their outsider perspective multitudes of cliques at their high school.

When analyzing the theme in the film Mean Girls, plot can be used to support the theme, making fun of others won’t make you feel better about yourself.

Mean Girls is a comedy directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. Cady Heron is the new girl in town who moved from Africa. She instantly makes friends with two teenagers that are nice (Damian and Janis) whom, are considered in the "out crowd." After she meets the Plastics (three rude and popular girls), consisting of Regina the leader, Gretchen (Regina’s follower), Karen is considering one of the dumbest people you will meet. They let her in their group, where Cady falls for Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels. When Regina finds this out, she wants revenge. However, Cady, Janis and Damian plan together to get back at Regina and take her down from the head plastic. While planning revenge, Cady

The movie Mean Girls is a comedy that came out in 2004, which was written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters. The plot of the film is that it is in a high school setting and it focuses on cliques. Regina George, Karen Smith, Gretchen Wieners, and Cady Heron are the main characters that make up the “Plastics” and are the most popular girls, the “Mean Girls”. There are many cliques at North Shore High School, the high school in Mean Girls that range from the “Plastics” to the jocks, to the band geeks, to the art freaks. Cady Heron, the main character, who used to live in Africa with her parents, was home schooled for sixteen years of her life, and was a girl who did not care for fashion or what others though of her. Out of know where during lunch one of the girls from the “Plastics” asked Cady to join them and she does get accepted into their group. Even though Cady does not want to be part of the clique at first, she joins and later on she changes dramatically to fit in with the “Plastics”. In my opinion this demonstrates gender roles and finding your identity. Also, when a person is in high school that is usually the time when young girls are finishing

Psychologists all over the world have studied the complexity of adolescents and their behaviors through-out this stage of the human life-span. In the movie, Mean Girls, (Waters, 2004) Lindsay Lohan portrays the main actress known as Cady Herron. Unlike most teens, Cady was raised in Africa, with her parents as Zoologists. She was homeschooled for all of her school years, and this would be the first attempt at public school. Cady like most adolescents, finds herself in a rock and a hard place when she is caught between real friendship and the fake ego plastic one.

The first thing you notice in the movie is in the opening scene. Cady is standing, looking up at her parents and they are explaining to her that they have packed her lunch and that there is money inside so she can buy milk. Her father looks at her and says “You can ask one on of the big kids where to do that” showing that they still treat her like a child, challenging her birth order. This situation challenges her birth order because while she is 16, her parents treat her as though she is only going to start kindergarten causing her no to know how to correctly interact with other children her age. Also, this parenting style is known as authoritarian parenting because they expect Cady to follow exactly what they say to the t with no argument. While Cady’s parents are authoritarian, the leader of The Plastics, Regina, has permissive parents. When Cady first goes to her house,

Mean girls is a very influential movie in America and the majority of people have either watched it or know what it entails. Many people see this movie as a funny satirical and exaggerated take on American high school but in reality it has a much deeper meaning to it. The movie revolves around a transfer student ,Cady, who had grown up in Africa and was home schooled her entire life. It shows her pretending to be friends with the popular group “The Plastics” so that she can find out their secrets and report back to her other, less popular friends. However, in the end she becomes sucked into the group and starts to treat everyone else in the same horrible ways The Plastics do.

While the film Mean Girls (2004) concentrates on the influence of sexuality in teenagers in high school, it passes all criteria of the Bechdel test. Main character Cady Heron is drawn in to the popular group and experiences all of the drama that a teenage girl in high school experiences. Regina George and "the Plastics" are the popular girls in school who lure Cady's innocence in by pretending to have interest in her personal life. While in the cafeteria, the girls have many discussions of Cady's previous experiences as a homeschooled student and the current drama. The Bechdel test intends to draw attention to the importance of gender representation in this movie by primarily focusing on the female characters who do not only control the plot, but dominate gender equality.

Peer pressure affected multiple characters throughout the movie. The pressure of wanting to fit in, disabled the characters from discovering themselves and knowing really where they belong. Cady belonged in a math club, as she did show academic promise in that field. Regina showed interest sports, cricket to be specific; in addition, it was actually recommended by her psychiatrist to help her overcome her anger issues. Karen, who was labeled as “dumb”, turned out to be interested in being the school’s weather girl.

At Cady’s Halloween party, Aaron and her go upstairs into her room and socially interact. Cady tells Aaron how whenever she asked him for help in math, she didn’t need the help. She only asked, so she would have a reason to talk to him. Aaron was a little upset and asked why she did not just talk to him, and Cady said that she could not talk to him because he was Regina’s property. Aaron was distressed and completely disagreed with Cady, and he told her that she is a replica of Regina. This interaction did not go so well, since Aaron referred to Cady as Regina rather than working things out. Another social interaction was when Cady went outside after Aaron left the house, and Janis and Damian, her two friends, drove past the house. Janis showed her hatred towards Cady since Cady did not invite Janis or Damian to the party, and Cady tried to defend herself, but Janis was extremely hurt and referred to Cady as a “mean girl.” This interaction was also negative because she basically lost her two friends, who introduced her to the school on her first day. Influence, which is the process of creating effects on the actions and opinions of others, relates to social interactions and also exists in the film. The Plastics have a negative influence on the girls at North Shore High School regarding the perfect appearance they

Rosalind Wiseman is a well-known child and relationship expert and a New York Time’s Best Selling author. Wiseman got the idea for her book, Queen Bees and Wannabees, after teaching a class about gossip and cliques amongst young girls. She saw how much aggression these preteens had toward each other and decided to write a self help book, which focuses on trying to understand the relational aggression girls experience. This book later became the bases and/ or the inspiration for the film Mean Girls. Tina Fey used Wiseman’s research and ideas about how girls as a whole handle themselves and wrote the screenplay for the 2004 film, which was directed by Mark Waters.

Girl vs Girl Her heels are a lethal weapon, 5 inches of sheer judgment. She scours the internet slyly with her brow raised and fingertips ready to spread words of distaste and scrutiny. We are now viewing a “mean girl” in her natural habitat. Studies show that women are biologically more competitive than men when it comes to the attention of a significant other or the role as “alpha” female. We listen to it every day, it is all around us!

Next you need to analyze the movie based on what we have covered in this course. Include information as it relates to female development, gender stereotypes, relationships, occupations, personality characteristics, power, status, types of sexism, body image, etc. as they apply to the movie you chose. In this analysis, you should interpret if the movie is perpetuating stereotypes, accurately depicting females, etc. You must make at least 4 connections to the course material. ).You need to explain how the examples from the film relate to or illustrate the course material. You should make the connections between course material and specific examples from the film very clear and explicit. Just saying you see “sexism” is not enough—what kind of

Middle school was a rough time like it was for many because I still did not even know who I was yet. MIddle school was very difficult to adjust to at first because all my life I had only been in one class all day everyday with the same teacher and they made sure you always had a note to remind you of your homework for the night. Middle school was when I began to make my own choices and had to suffer the consequences that came with those choices. In middle school is when I found out how much I liked business because of a field trip my 6th grade year to Biztown which was a small fake “community” that everyone worked in and would be a citizen in the town.

4 Little Girls is a 1997 documentary about the September 1963 murder of four African-American girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The film re-creates the day of the bombing through several mediums such as news footage, photographs and eyewitness reports. The film also places the bombing within the larger context of the civil rights movement, and includes information on the sit-ins, the marches, the songs and the murders. In 1963 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King arrived in the town and the African American community would meet at the 16th Street Baptist Church while organizing events. The protests were covered by the national media, and the use of police dogs and pressured water from hoses on young black people