A few days ago I wrote my blog about an article analyzing the movie Mean Girls. I think this movie has such a strong correlation to the real world settings of high schools in America. There is not one high school that has no drama and where everyone gets along. People can completely change from freshman year to senior year. It is not so often that the popular cheerleader becomes a ‘geek,’ but someone who is known as a jock might quit the sport they were known for. In high school people are finding out who they are. The movie was meant to show the hardships of finding your place in a new school. “The film’s device of ‘the new student’ allows the audience to indulge in one of the great challenges of adolescence: How do I fit in? The primary agenda of the young people is portrayed as identity and belonging, not morality.” (Life in, 4) This task may sound pretty simple, but it is not so easy to complete. There are so many different types of people that no two people are completely alike. So how do you fit in? Being a new student means you have to get to everyone around you to find someone who’s personality matches yours. I was lucky enough to have the same group of friends from seventh grade to now. We are all so different yet all the same. Some of us played sports, others were more into academics, and others into singing and dancing, but yet our personalities all went together. Therefore I do not think fitting in necessarily has anything to do with making friends, because we did not all meet through sports or other activities. We don’t always ‘fit in’ the same category. Sometimes we just fall in to place.
Resnick, David. "Life in an unjust community: a Hollywood view of high school moral life." Journal of Moral Education 37.1 (2008): 99-113. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2010.
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