Even though Akeelah feels protected and accepted around her coach and other former spelling bee friends she still gets mocked by her classmates and even her own mother is against her goal for the spelling bee. Her mother had issues dealing with her husband passing away and her one of Akeelahs brothers out on the streets doing bad things. Akeelah fights threw her afterschool activity and homework at the same time. Akeelah later finds her life revolved around the spelling bee. She slowly starts not doing her main
Amy is finding it difficult to concentrate in class, is continuously late to school, and often arrives to school dishevelled and unkempt. The coordinator is concerned about what may be happening at home with Amy, and that she may be getting involved in a notoriously bad circle of friends in the area known for drug taking and other delinquent activities. Although reluctant during the first few sessions to disclose anything much, Amy begins to trust the counsellor and opens up about her frequent drug use. She says she used to only smoke marijuana, but that now this had increased to weekly party hits of Cocaine and speed. She tells the counsellor that the effects of these drugs is beginning to diminish and that she feels like she has to try something harder like heroin, to gain the same effect.
Bich constantly threatens herself and her identity by competing with the kids at school in an irrational way, blindly believing in the American culture of early 80’s(commercials) and having no regard for her family, especially Rosa. Following these paths makes her lead different lives, the one in the school as a “good girl” and the one at her home as a brat.Attitude of this kind makes it very difficult for her to truly accept her natural self and her precious culture. The problem with Bich is that she is over ambitious sometimes; this is true when she tries to ace at everything at school, be it in her classes or her popularity as a “cool kid”.Also due to the different lives led, Bich isolates herself by making very few friends around whom she feel insecure most of the time. Bich says “Then there was Tara’s mother, who introduced me to beef Stroganoff and showed me that I had no manners.” The quote explores the mental harassment Bich had to go through just because she had a different culture at home .Bich surrounds herself with friends like Jennifer whose mom is a perfect homemaker which makes her look at Rosa differently, Jennifer is also a strict church going Christian, she is set in her own ways; making a mistake in her world
She seems to be in a hurry to grow up and experience the sexual pleasures of life. And sometime wanted to grow up to fast, has its consequences. Connie is rebellious at home, she feels as though her mother is always picking on her for every little thing she does, but on the other hand she gives her older sister praise for everything she does. This causes Connie to mope around the house all day wishing she was older and away from her family. One day Connie and some friends decided to hang out at the Mall and while there, they change into provocative clothes like, skimpy shorts and halter tops to appear much older and to attract the attention of boys.
Andie develops a good diet, however after some advice from her teammate telling her that there are ways around eating and not gaining any weight. As the movie progresses her eating habits start to worsen, and later it leads to anorexia. I chose this person for the assignment because in today’s society there are many young girls who would put their body to harm just to fit into society or to achieve their goals. Throughout the movie you see Andie struggling with her eating, she would throw away her food when no one is looking, play with her food to make it look like she ate, and also you see her making herself throw up. Andie’s family members, friends, and boyfriend also see the changes in her personality throughout the movie.
The movie ‘Mean Girls’ provides insights into the concept of belonging because throughout the film the director Mark Waters shows the journey of Cady Herring (Lindsay Lohan) trying to find where she belongs in the social ranking at her new high school. Her predilection to belong with the ‘popular groups’, this desire puts some of her very few friendships she has on hold and they slowly start to crumble. The film discusses how trying to belong does not always have a positive outcome and isn’t always a positive thing to achieve. In today’s society almost everyone is superficial; people are judged on their appearance, the brands of clothing they wear, weather they have the latest phone, laptop, the type of house they live in the area in which they live and if they have a high paying job. And if you don’t have all of these or most of these you are generally considered an outcast.
From being separated from the love of her life so soon, all Allie was left with was hope that Noah would soon write to her everyday until they were back together again. I believe the intended audience for this movie are teenage girls and young women. In my opinion, I think this movie would be interesting for the audience because every girl has that fantasy of the "perfect guy". People go see a movie to escape from reality, they don't want to watch a movie that mirrors reality. Therefore, this is why the notebook will be so popular because it gives people what they want to see and even though death occurs in the movie it still portrays a fantasy every girl holds onto.
These girls talked about being teased continuously, as well as not having many friends because of their apparent hideousness. One girl even talked about dropping out of school because she was teased so much. After doing a review of each of the girl’s lives before, the producers unfolded each of them to bouncing techno music and little clothing. These attractive women were much improved than there childhood pictures behind them. The producers then would bring out the boy who seemed like he was still going to be right, but then, all of a sudden, out comes an attractive young woman and loud techno music.
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.
Sandra Lee is asked to do some household tasks as always, but when her mother asks her how her day went and who she had lunch with, Sandra Lee breaks down after and says she wants to change school. The three older ladies gets mad, but not only do they manage to convince Sandra Lee to stay in the same school, they also make it feel like the question wasn’t ever asked. The short story is told through a third person narrator, who isn’t present in the text, but is still omniscient because he/she can see everything and feel the feelings of the people who actually appear in the story. It’s a common way of writing a fictional story, but it still always gives a mysterious feeling to the reader, especially at the points when Grau uses quick and short sentences. There is a lot of dialogue throughout the text, which makes the narrator more reliable.