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Essay On Mean Girls By Caady Heron

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In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron was an innocent homeschooled girl that grew up in Africa and who recently moved to Illinois with her parents. Cady started attending public school since her parents wanted her to socialize. She became friends with Damian and Janis; they taught her everything she needed to know about the ‘plastics’. Regina George, Gretchen and Karen were part of the plastics (a clique of girls who were incredibly popular in high school). Regina is known for being arrogant and manipulative with her friends and parents; she always received what she wanted. Cady became one of the ‘plastics’ which ended up transforming her into an antipathetic and a truly mean girl. While she was part of the clique, Janis and Cady were plotting …show more content…

Meanwhile, Cady ended up losing Janis and Damian’s friendship because she lied about being in Madison and instead had a party. Also, Regina found her the same day kissing her ex-boyfriend Aaron that made her angry. Regina went to the school principal showing him a disgusting book calling names and saying unbelievable comments towards students and teachers. Once the students found out about the book, the school became chaotic. Cady felt hated by everyone since nobody would talk to her and her mother did not even believe her story. At the end, Cady, Damian and Janis recover their friendship and the plastics break up. In the movie Mean Girls, Cady changes from being innocent to antipathetic, while Regina demonstrates arrogance and manipulation with her …show more content…

To explain, most of the time Regina would boss and insult her friends. Gretchen told Regina that she cannot sit with them since she is wearing sweat pants, Regina responded, “Whatever those rules are not real”. Karen is surprised for what she just heard and told Regina, “But it was real when I wore that vest”. Regina felt annoyed and answered, “Because that vest was disgusting”. And left the table. Regina shows arrogance by bossing her friends and making them leave the table when they wear something she does not like. Regina attempted to anger Cady for Gretchen telling her secret. Regina called Cady to tell she knows her secret since Gretchen told her she likes Aaron Samuels. Simultaneously, Regina attempts to make Cady dislike him by telling her that Aaron only focuses on school and his mother. She adds that if Cady is upset at Gretchen to tell her because it was unfaithful for her to do that. Cady replied, “Yeah, it was pretty messed up, but I’m not mad”. In the meantime, Gretchen was on the phone line the entire time listening to their conversation. Regina demonstrates manipulation towards Cady’s secret so she would get mad at Gretchen and would stop liking Aaron. When Regina found out Cady was giving her weight gain bars, she felt angry. Then, she wrote on the burn book saying “This girl is the worst person I met, do not trust her”, and next to the comment she glued a picture of herself, making it look like

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