Everything was about Mia, dramatic, lively Mia. Now, everything is still about Mia, but Mia isn't "a bit down" now. She's got acute depression, and no one knows how to fix it and make life for the Spinelli family get back to normal. At her old school her friends dictated who she should be, what she should wear, who she should hang out with. Basically everything down to her taste in music.
She strongly dislikes her sister’s eagerness to fit in at school and tells Bianca, “You don’t always have to be what other people want you to be”, which shows us that she thinks Bianca should be herself and not follow in the path that her fellow school mates take. These two quotes show us how Kat feels about individuality and how she thinks it affects others. We often see Kat getting kicked out of the classroom for expressing her opinions which shows that she doesn't fit in. One of the first scenes in the movie shows Kat in her worn down car.The punk rock music coming from Kat's car is very different compared to the teenage girls in the car to her left. The camera shows the first group of teenage girls listening to music that you would hear on the radio, and then shows Kat, alone in her car, looking bored with her punk rock music blaring from the speakers of her car.
Her novel reads like a fairy tale where discrimination and violence were mild while freedoms and acceptance is open to all. The racial identities of her main four black characters as strong, smart and brave is stereotypical of that rights oriented movement but not in the direction of freedom. Their daily lives are far too “normal” for a historic fictional recreation. The color lines were blurred throughout the novel as Grace breastfed a white child. In pre-civil war Mississippi, this may have been a normal occurrence but in civil rights movement Mississippi, this definitely would not have happened.
Luckily, two social outcasts, Janice and Damien, showed her around and warned her of all the other social cliques in the school. It is not long until the most popular girl group in the school, the “Plastics”, noticed Cady and invited her to join their group. Turning to her new friends Janice and Damien, Cady is convinced to pretend to be the Plastics’ friend in a plan to overthrow the leader of the group, Regina, and take away the group’s power over the school. Gaining instant popularity, Cady soon found herself sucked into the mean girl lifestyle and wanting to sabotage Regina for her own personal gain. It was not until Cady has
Interestingly, through the main character Rosaura and her transformation, the author shows that, in class societies, social status have more power on people’s future than their actual capabilities. At the beginning of the story, Rosaura is blind about the importance of social classes in her life. For example, when she argues with her mother about Luciana being her friend, Rosaura tells her that “[she knows] nothing about being friends” (9). By her strong reaction, Rosaura shows that she is convinced that Luciana is really her friend, even though they only do homework together. She isn’t aware that they don’t belong to the same social class.
Alex Miller What does Freedom Writers say about education? In the movie Freedom Writers it follows Hilary Swanks’ character “Erin Gruwell” as a new teacher with hopes to bring an equal education to the less privileged. She is hired to Wilson High School, a school that had high achieving scores prior to the government issuing an integration program bringing in “bad” kids from the ghetto. The educators at this school do not look at these students the same, they believe they are just there because they have to and sooner or later they will drop out anyways. Erin tried to be the best teacher she could be by bringing them into her personal life as well, an example of this is when she brought them onto a field trip to the Holocaust Museum on the weekend then after bringing them to a restaurant which she worked at in a hotel.
Also in this scene the students didn’t want to get along with the other cultures they just wanted to stay in their groups and their costumes were based on what culture group they belong to. Erin Gruwell was really confident she will do well on her first day but when Andre and Alejandro got into an argument she knew what she was up against. This is an contrast the scene ‘Home’. In this scene were In the Honours Class there was African American girl named Victoria and she hated the teacher because he was racist towards her so she decided to check out Room 203. In Room 203 they were doing ‘Toast for Change’ where they toast for who they want to be and not to be who they were.
In order to break free from your social background you have to be a strong character and try not to go with the flow. In this story we meet Kim who are dealing with many of those problems. We don’t get to know much about Kim’s background, besides that she is from London, where she worked at a home for deprived children, until she got kicked out because she caught Hep B and a nasty venereal disease off some random guy she had sex with. Kim is much more articulate than Andrea and Di. For example although Kim repeatingly corrects them when they mention her audition as “your thing”, Andrea and Di are not affected by it.
Her friend doesn’t appear to be proud of boastful in the story and doesn’t seem to care that Madame Loisel is poorer than her. Madame Loisel is just embarrassed of the life she lives that she doesn’t want anyone around her to see who she is and how she lives. Within the story, the reader gets the sense that she is so envious of the life that others have she doesn’t realize what she has and that she is so concerned with wanting materialistic objects that she is making herself miserable and unhappy. Her husband who notices how unhappy she is brings home an invitation to a ball hoping to make her happy. Instead, Madame Loisel becomes even more distraught because she doesn’t think she has anything that is acceptable to wear to such a formal occasion.
Also, Sammy’s parents keep nagged and complained but did not concern about why she had unsatisfactory results on academic aspect. Sammy becomes rebellious because the criticism of the parents, that had produced lots of conflicts in the family relationship. Therefore, there was a conversation problem between them, which make they not understand each other. Lack of self-understanding Sammy did not know her personal identity and what she likes. These were the symptoms that appeared in Erikson’s (1963) eight psychosocial stages, which describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan.