Blog 14

      People are not willing to go out of their way to talk to someone that might be having a bad day.  Just a simple hello could change the course of their life.  In the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a student at Sunnydale High becomes completely invisible to her peers and faculty.  No one ever noticed her disappearance, because she was so unknown to her fellow classmates that it was like she never existed.  All she wants is someone to talk to her or a teacher to call on her in class to answer a question. 
    In the episode, “Out of Mind, Out of Sight,” they show flashbacks to times when Marcie tried to talk to people or would try to answer questions in class, but everyone just saw right past her and paid no attention to her.  She wants to get revenge on Cordelia who is one of the people who ignored her the most and also because Cordelia is the most popular girl in the school, and she could not miss a day without someone noticing her absence.  Starting her revenge plan, Marcie attacks Cordelia’s boyfriend in the locker room beating him with a bat.   Then Cordelia’s friend is pushed down steps.  At this point no one knew what was causing this. Buffy hears laughter and tries to follow this invisible person.   Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles search around and finally find out the girl is Marcie.  On top of the other attacks,  she suffocates a teacher that had completely ignored her in class even though Marcie had her hand raised high in the air.   We now know that Marcie’s plan is to go after Cordelia and everyone around her that ignored her the same way Cordelia did.  Buffy is then like a body guard for Cordelia to make sure Marcie does not attack her, but when Buffy puts her in a janitors closet to change she no longer hears Cordelia talking and knows Marcie has got to her.  She busts in but is quickly knocked out by Marcie and she wakes up to being tied up in a room with Cordelia.  In the mean time, Giles, Xander, and Willow are trapped in a room filled with gas, but Angel saves them.  Buffy ends up getting out of the ropes and uses her super sense of hearing to located Marcie.  She knocks her down into a blanket and government like people come in and take her away.  Buffy asks if there has been other people that this has happened to at other schools but they do not answer her.  They end up taking Marcie to a special school where the whole classroom of students are invisible.

    The supernatural occurrence of Marcie’s invisibility demonstrates the extreme and dire importance of social ranking in not only high school, but in society as a whole.  People go to work, school, or maybe just to the gym or grocery store and pass the same people day after day.  How many times do these people just say a casual hello?  How many times do they just walk by?   These people are complete strangers even though we have seen them so many times.  This is how society works.