Creative Writing: Cady's Life

The story begins when Cady meets two friends, Janis and Damien, who show Cady the ways of high school. This is a very normal way in reality and most would not think much of it. Unconsciously, Freud would say, that there is some sort of motive behind this behavior and that there is no possible way that there doing it just to be nice. But as the story goes on we do find out that Janis used to be best friends with Regina (queen bee of “the plastics”) and that their friendship ended due to Regina spreading a rumor that Janis was a lesbian. When Cady is asked by Regina to hang out she is very hesitant to do so and tells Janis what is happening. Janis gets overly excited and instantly her id, the pleasure seeking principle, of her behavior jumps into play causing her to completely ignore

What they didn’t see coming was that Cady would conform and actually become a plastic. Its clear to see that Cady’s personal behavior and morals values start to go down hill when she sees Regina kiss Aaron Samuels, the boy she has a crush on. After feeling devastated and heart broken, Cady decides to get revenge on Regina with the help of Janice and Damian. They accomplish this by giving her face cream that is actually foot cream, feeding her Kalteen bars that actually make you gain weight instead of loose weight, and ultimately get Regina’s friends to turn their backs on her after a nasty three-way call. Regina was then over ruled and kicked out of The Plastics leaving an opening for new Queen Bee Cady. Regina George now furious about loosing her leadership plans revenge against Cady by writing a burn about her self in her own “Burn Book.” The Burn Book is a book that Regina and her friends created to write multiple insulting comments about people from their school. Regina then makes photocopies of the pages from the Burn Book, including the one about her self, and throws them around the school for everyone to

Moral emotion is classified under Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory along with empathy, prosocial behavior, and antisocial behavior. (Life-Span, 2015, 2012, pp. 35-40) All are behaviors and stages that Cady is experiencing at this time in her life. Moral emotions, both positive and negative, require being able to evaluate whether you or others have exceeded or fallen short of standards of behaviors. Cady shows signs of antisocial behavior when she works up a plan with best friend Janis Ian to take down Regina George “Queen Bee” of the Plastics. She feels that even though she is pretending

“When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison, that’s what I had to do, suck all the poison out of my life.” This quote tells us that Cady Heron regrets doing what she did. She believes that she must apologize to the people she hurt. In Mean Girls, Cady undergoes many changes, just like any animal who must change according to its surrounding. Cady had been homeschooled for sixteen years in Africa spending her life with animals. Now, that she moved to America she still had some animal instincts. She changes dramatically in the movie from the start to the very end. She was a loner in the beginning of the book, but luckily, Janis and Damian befriend her. When she first joined the school, she was a proper lady, who doesn’t want

Cady, in particular, shows several different types of listening throughout the movie. When she met with her crush, Aaron Samuels, for a study date, she was only pretending to listen to him because she already knew the material. Her mind was somewhere else while she pretended to focus on what he was saying. This is called pseudolistening. Cady shows selective listening when she is first spending time with the plastics. She only listened for information that could potentially be used against them and bring them all down. This also portrays selfish listening. The only reason Cady listened to the plastics in the first place was because she had her own ulterior motive of sabotaging their reputations. Therefore she was listening for specific kinds of information that would help her purpose. Cady shows defensive listening in a very obvious way with Damien and Janice. When they tried to confront her about her actual transformation into a plastic herself, she grew angry and argued against that statement, getting very upset about the accusation.

Cady Heron is a 16 year old teenager who moved to a small town in Chicago where she also attended Northshore High School. She was homeschooled by her parents and they also stayed in Africa for about 12 years because of her parents job but since her mom got an offer in Chicago they have to move back. Since it was her first time going to a mainstream school, it was really hard for her to adapt especially her age. It would also be her first time dealing with a lot of social rules that many teenage girls deal with today. Her first friends that she met at this new school are pretty much complete outcasts, Janice Ian Dyke and Damien, later on she finds herself crossing paths with the three most popular girls in the school called, The Plastics. Regina George who’s “The Queen Bee” of the group, leading this group of 3 girls, tries to make Cady be apart of this clique by introducing her to their crazy rules and luxury lifestyles. She told Janice and Damien that

Cady is known for her fiercely feminist beliefs, and these began to form when she was still a young girl. Her mother gave birth to eleven children, but only five survived to adulthood. This left the family with four girls and only one son, who eventually died at age twenty. Cady’s father was incredibly upset that he had lost all the male heirs in the family. At the time, Cady was just eleven years old and tried to reassure her father. He replied “Oh, my daughter, I wish you were a boy”. (Miller) This reaction from her father motivated Cady to show her family that she could be as equally skilled as any man, and she tried to please her father by training in subjects such as Greek

It all began when Cady’s mom accepted a professorship at Northwestern University. For Cady, it meant that she was leaving Africa to move to the suburbs of Illinois. Also, she was no longer going to be homeschooled; instead she was going to attend Evanston High School. On the first day of school, she was stressed because in each of her

As Cady moves to America from Africa where she was homeschooled for the past fifteen years, Cady has little to no idea of the expectations of high school. As you can expect, Cady undergoes obvious character transformation from

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

Those choices lead to her “Punishments.” Cady is grounded, plus her parents do not trust her anymore. She loses her real friends who were honest with her unlike the fake “Plastics.” Aaron rejects her because her personality changed too much. Cady turns into a copy of Regina: arrogant and contemptuous. However, the punishments which she receives help Cady to change and understand that saying bad things about others will not make her better, nor will it cause her to change. This aspect of the tragic hero is Discovery. By going through the challenges she is transformed to a confident, sage and wise person. Her change can be seen in the last part of the movie when Cady became a Spring Fling Queen. She made a speech about the knowledge she gained, that everyone deserved to be treated equally, and everyone is beautiful, but in different ways. “Catharsis, some sort of emotional release at the end is a common experience of those who witness great tragedies on the stage” (Johnson, Arp 1295), in Cady’s experience, her reward is satting her friends back, and also gaining a relationship

Cady agrees and even helps develop the master plan to take down Regina before she is named Spring Fling Queen. The key to end her torment, Janis says, is to cut off her “resources” such as support from the other Plastics, and Regina’s obsession with her own toned physique. Cady’s hostility causes her personality to change as she becomes conceited, hateful and cruel and even abandons Janis and Damian’s friendship. Janis helps Cady realize this change in herself with Janis’ words of honesty, “Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic.

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