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Mean Girls: What It's Like To Be New ♥

In replacement of Badland's, I'll be writing a response on a movie that I happen to adore, which is Mean Girls. The story begins with Cady, who been home schooled her whole life, which makes her a new character to explore social reality with. What is normal to us is strange and foreign to her. She has no idea of how people behave or should behave in certain cliques and groups. She’s basically “fresh meat". 

We relate to her immediately– we all know what it's like to be put into an environment where we don't know the rules.

The first thing that happens when she shows up at school is… overwhelming chaos. She’s unable to make sense of the complexity that are high-school social relations. She's walking in seeing a bunch of students everywhere part taking in activities such as smoking, skating, etc. 

She then makes new friends from her first class, Janice and Damien - a seemingly lesbian and the fat gay boy. 

From there, they take Cady under their wing and teach them about the horrible and shady clique referred to as "The Plastics" and they teach her how to survive high school even by being back stabbed, and manipulated by the Plastics. Cady then tries to get even throughout the whole year, and even gets so caught up in sabotaging that she mistreats her own friends, and then later on realizes that it's not worth it, she shouldn't try to be something that she's not and lose herself within doing that. 

I feel like this is a lesson that most high school teens can relate to because once high school occurs, you will be in a whole new environment and will be exposed to bullies, cliques, shadiness, and so much more. So you have to stay humble and be yourself, because that's all that matters.