Cady's Essay: The Story Of The Plastics

Regina started to spent less time at home and more time reading in the woods. They move again to Rocky Point during the winter, once they get there Cookie leaves to be with new boyfriend Red Devil, leaving them alone, not registered for school, without food and without heat. Regina’s older sister Cherie get’s sick of pneumonia and social services took them away once again. After Cherie recovers Cookie regains custody and Karl has agreed to return if Cookie stops drinking, the day Cookie came home smelling like alcohol Karl left. That year they go visit their grandparents are rejected and for the next two months they are living in their mother’s car. They are left alone in the car at night when she goes with someone to spend the night. When they do find someplace to live they have to leave due to the neighbors noticing the children are not going to school, are again living in the car. A few months later both Cherie and Camille moveout. When their mom gets a job at a Deli live in a room upstairs from it. Cookie gets upset when Regina comes home late resulting with her mother throwing a pan when Camille intervene her mother pushes her down the stairs. She was taken to the hospital. The hospital staff did not ask about their mother or went deeper into the story they told. Regina knew her sisters were not going to stay she decided to get a job at age 11 at the same place her mother works in. Her mother would

Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady who joins an elite social group at her new school known as the Plastics. While socializing with the Plastics, Cady develops a new, mean girl, personality and ends up sabotaging the group’s leader, Regina, and becomes the new leader of the Plastics. Regina retaliates by spreading the burn book, a book the Plastics filled with insults and gossip about other students, around the school leading to a riot and Cady takes the blame. Cady realizes that her new personality is wrong and apologizes to the school, makes amends with her old friends, and forms a truce with Plastics who disband and become regular students (Mean Girls, 2004).

The first friends she meets, Janis and Damian, try to help her ruin the Plastics, the most popular girls in school, and Cady’s role as the satire’s naïf becomes apparent. Initially, Janis and Damian convinced Cady to join the Plastics to spy on them and try to expose their corrupt ways, but she gets caught up in their popularity and truly becomes a member of the Plastics, agreeing with all that they do and believe. The naivety of the characters in the movie makes it less attacking and more of a laugh out loud satire that demands change to minimize the exclusiveness of stereotypical groups in high schools. As all satires do, the entire movie depends on lampoon, which publically criticizes a topic by using ridiculous means, to point out the absurd exclusiveness of friend groups in high school.

As Janis is telling Cady about the different cliques at their school, she ponders "How do I begin to explain Regina George?" This is followed by comments and opinions by different students ': "Regina George is flawless" "She has two Fendi purses and a silver Lexus". The fact that the second comment made about her describes the products that she owns says a lot about our consumer culture and recognition of brands, and the way we look up to people. Mean Girls emphasises that Regina is "fabulous, but she 's evil" - despite her attractiveness and the respect she is given, her behaviour and personality leave much to be desired. Even though she is downright nasty and universally hated, people still want to be like

Damian. Janis is your average outcast teenager who loves to wear all black and Damian is flaming gay. One of the first scenes in the movie Janis gives Cady a map she drew of the lay out of the lunchroom. Each table is labeled according to the social group they identify themselves with. Some of the social groups she mentions include the “Asian nerds, varsity jocks, the unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, the burnouts, and the worst of them all, the Plastics” (2004). Janis and Damian challenge Cady to “become one of the Plastics” so she can obtain the infamous Burn Book. The Plastics are the most popular girls in the school and the hottest and meanest of them was Regina George. Regina befriends Cady and she finds herself trying to acquire the label as an official Plastic so she will no longer be the new girl. Cady notices her classmates accept her new status and she uses this recognition in her favor. It is important to recognize that the behaviors of the Plastics are deviant and challenge social norms. Although this is obvious to the audience of the movie, the student body at North Shore does not recognize this because they are too distracted by the Plastics status quo. Cady’s primary deviance is seen in the scene where Regina invites her over to her house to hang out with the other Plastics. While hanging out, Regina shows her the Burn Book where she comes across a picture of Janis and her friend from math club, Kevin. The Burn Book includes

Cady got to talk to them because the girls overheard the conversation she was having with a guy, then Regina saw how naive she was and explain to her what the guy was asking her. After the incident “The Plastics” asked Cady to sit with them and she did. Therefore, Cady went to tell Damian and Janis that she was invited to sit with “The Plastics” for the rest of the week. Janis suggested to Cady that she should do it and to come back to informed her about all of the horrible things Regina says. A responding skill can be showed on Cady’s replay when she said that Regina seems sweet and Janis aggressive expression showed that she disagreed with her. As Cady starts to hangout more with “The Plastics” it seemed that she was more confidence with herself, as well as her social skills started to improved. For example, Cady started to socialize more with Aaron during math class because they both felt attracted to each other. When Cady hears that she is nominated for Spring Fling Queen her confidence raises, especially when Damian and Janis makes her think that her fellow classmates voted for

They have their own set of communication and norms that only them could understand. Cady must follow those standards or else, she won’t garner the approval of the Plastics. It’s the peer-pressure culture of teenagers, and the Plastics are the gatekeepers. Eventually, Cady started becoming very self-conscious and feminine with her fashion just like the Plastics.

Cady begins to learn all the secrets of the plastics and realizes how shallow they really are. She takes this opportunity to get revenge on them using their secrets against them. This starts by Cady wanting to get back at Regina for deliberately sabotaging her relationship with a boy she has a crush on in her math class named Aaron Samuels, who just happens to be Regina’s ex-boyfriend. Once Cady realizes that her, once thought “friend” stabbed her in the back, she does everything she can to ruin Regina’s life by going behind her back and manipulating her relationships and social status in deviant

It starts off with Cady befriending “The Plastics” which starts out good but ends bad. Cady ends up sabotaging Regina in three ways which includes Regina’s boyfriend, nutrition bars, and Regina’s friends and ends up succeeding. The turning point in the movie was when Cady throws a party and does not invite the two first friends she met and Regina. While driving to Cady’s house and seeing the party Regina’s new boyfriend notices the nutrition bar in Regina’s hand and exclaims that those are not for losing weight they are for gaining weight. Regina shrieks in anger and plots her revenge on Cady which involves the “Burn Book”. You may think that Regina is putting Cady in the book but Regina puts herself in the book. As a result of this, three girls get called to the principal’s office, the only people in the school who are not in the book. Furious Regina makes copies of the pages in the book and puts them around the school. The girls in the book see the mean things in the pages and the school goes into frenzy. It ends up with Cady apologizing and all the drama ends. Lastly, you won’t be disappointed with the plot in this

Her mother best sums up Cady

Up to this point, the relationship between Janie and Tea Cake has seemed almost too good to be true. Chapters 13 and 14, while continuing to demonstrate that their relationship is a good experience for Janie, raise some complex questions about Tea Cake’s character. Their arrival in the Everglades is a moment of fulfillment for Janie as she finds herself surrounded by fertile nature. Overall, her experience is generally a fulfilling one. Nevertheless, Tea Cake manipulates her in subtle ways, raising, once again, the specter of male domination in her life.Chapter 13 is marked by Tea Cake’s cruel absences from Janie. Although Janie accepts his explanations, it is hard to believe that someone as intelligent as Tea Cake could be so careless only

The plot sounded awful, because bullying and internalized misogyny is a heavy topic. It usually ends in a cathartic note, but Mean Girls unpack these issues with grace. In the film, Cady has been exposed as a traitor. She was shunned in their school, because students taught she pushed Regina in front of a moving bus. She didn’t do it; everyone is either mad or proud for what she has done. Like in the beginning of the film, she was once back at eating her lunch in a bathroom’s cubicle. Later on, she was given a chance to redeem herself in joining the

The students, and even some of the teachers at her school hated her, but at the same time respected her, not only because of her ‘appealing appearance’, but also because she knows all the secrets about them which are written on “the Burn Book”. Regina’s social standing at the apex of popularity disables any type of force to rebel against her. However, because of her powerful position in the social ladder, she needs to maintain her presence, or else the school’s loyalty and attention to her will disappear. As Judith Butler mentioned, “Conception of social performance is applied, it is clear that although there are individual bodies that enact these significations by becoming stylized into modes, this ‘action’ is immediately public as well” (Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitute”). Her identity, attire, attitude and action play major parts in the school society. For example, when Janice Ian cropped parts of Regina’s dress, girls, and even some guys in the school saw her rippled dress as a new trend, and began to imitate her fashion by wearing cropped dresses to school. Furthermore, Regina insults her peers because she has to make sure to that she is superior to them. However, everything changes once Regina starts to gain more weight. Her appearance is distorted and her loyalty

She likes the feeling of being free and independent. Janie's begins to feel certain that she doesn’t need a husband and says she’ll never be married again. Eventually she meets Tea Cake, a guy who is much younger than her. Tea Cake is very fun and adventurous. Together Janie and Tea Cake do things that Janie would've never imagined doing. Tea Cake shows Janie a new way of enjoying life besides being trapped working in Jody’s store. First, Tea Cake offers Janie to play checkers. Janie is shocked and sees this as a sign of Tea Cake’s respect for Janie. No other man had respected her enough to ask her that. Instead she was bossed around and told to do work all day. Janie enjoys her time spent with Tea Cake and he tells her that he likes her. Janie is shocked because she doesn’t believe Tea Cake is attracted to someone so much older than him. Janie turns him down and tells him she only likes him as a friend keeping her word and remaining independent. Tea Cake continues to express his feelings for Janie but Janie is afraid that he will take advantage of her like every other man did. Tea Cake didn’t give up on Janie and they begin to make their “relationship” public. Janie and Tea Cake became the talk of the town. With her being the Mayor’s widow everyone is shocked to see her with someone new. Janie’s friend pheoby begins to tell her that she should leave Tea Cake alone because

Norbury asks the entire senior class to raise their hand if they have ever been victimized by Regina George and nearly every single hand was raised. She does whatever she wants and thinks that everyone admires her. This is mostly because of the way her mom acts towards her and her friends. Regina's mom tries to be one of the teenage girls and gossip along with the "plastics." She even allows her daughter to drink underage. Regina's mom also allows the younger daughter to watch nudity on the television. Her care free, laid back parenting style plays a huge roll on how Regina acts towards her peers. In addition, Cady's parents are very strict. The first sign of this is in the beginning when they are very concerned with sending her to a public high school. After being exposed to the "plastics" and how they act, Cady begins to drink and participate in illegal activity nearly every weekend. Cady finds her wrong doings as an escape from her parents. This is because her parents are too strict and are constantly nagging her. Their uptight, strict parenting style is what leads to Cady doing unacceptable activities.