No one from her school has ever had a offer like this. Since Akeelah has ditched some of her classes several of times her principal threatens to give her a bad punishment for the rest of the year or she can substitute the punishment by accepting the spelling bee nationals. Under the pressure of the punishment Akeelah gave in the spelling nationals. After getting the hang of the whole spelling bee Akeelah begins to get the hang of something she finally can enjoy. Akeelah is coached by a English professor Dr. Joshua Larabee.
Question 1 Gretel and her friends used to treat Bruno with insolence and disrespect. They would exclude him from what they were doing and teased him about how he looked. He describes Gretel and her friends as if they are “monsters”, this makes the reader feel sympathetic for Bruno. The way they spoke to Bruno suggests to readers that he is six, when he is actually nine. The writer indicates that they put down him because he is short.
She will stand up to anyone and anything, warrior-women Ugly Girl, as she puts it. She ends up dropping off the basketball team after not doing well in a game which also tells us that she is afraid of getting humiliated and be a laugh to others, but that is not her major problem. Her major problem is that she also overheard what Matt says and she is the one to convince the principal that Matt should be forgiven and allowed to return to school. What she does not count on is that she begins to actually be attracted to Matt, and for a girl who is been operating independently of what other people want and think, it is sort of a hard thing to deal
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.
Jules is incredibly angry at her friend for betraying Jules’ feelings for Joe. However, earlier in the movie, when asked by Jess whether she had feelings for Joe, Jules denied it and pretended not to like him. Understandably, Jess feels fine hitting on Joe because she thinks it won’t hurt Jules’ feelings. Throughout the movie, Jess is at odds with her parents’ negative opinion of Jess playing soccer. While Jess wants to be able to play, her parents feel that she shouldn’t be “flaunting her legs” and other such frivolous things; she should be learning proper Indian culture.
I felt stupid and clueless. I didn’t understand the new jokes, the new stories, the new logic around clothes and boys. For me, boys were my friends, teammates, but my girlfriends thought that they were something exotic. They started getting desperate with me because I didn’t understand the reason for their giggles and gossips. Finally, they left me behind, and they stopped inviting me to the sleepovers and group projects.
Margot is the quiet, invisible outcast who is easily pushed around by her peers because she does not stand up for herself. The other children do not like that she is different and has had different experiences than they have, like spending years in the sun. They feel confident blocking her out because they are in an invidious group. The bully, William, accosted Margot as she attempted to describe what the sun that she remembers from her time living in Ohio. He turns the class against her, saying that she is lying and imagining her description of the sun.
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.
When Mrs. Mooney is observing Polly’s interactions with young men, she becomes frustrated that “none of [the men] meant business” and considers sending Polly back to her previous job (63). Mrs. Mooney is highly focused on her own aspirations, and therefore compromises her sense of empathy. Mrs. Mooney is a heavy influence on Polly’s actions. Mrs. Mooney acts as if she is unaware of Polly’s affair with Bob Doran; however, Mrs. Mooney and Polly share an unspoken understanding. Mrs. Mooney is the ringleader of Polly’s indecency, and manages Polly under implicit control.
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.