How To Be Bad Character Analysis

The words “pizza taxi” may seem totally random to you, but to me and two of my best friends, Dani and Jaime, it’s a symbol of our crazy, unpredictable friendship. In the novel, How to be Bad, the three main characters, Jesse, Vicks, and Mel, resemble us in many ways; fears, personalities, beliefs, and relationships. My friends and the book crew of girls are perfect examples of how opposites attract. The resemblances start with Jaime, and Jesse as being an uptight, thoughtful, “Christian Pants”, Dani and Mel are both quiet, kind-hearted girls that just want to make everyone happy, myself and Vicks can both put up tough girl facades, and try to be needless to help others. Jesse can be described as a “Christian Pants”, she won’t swear and sees …show more content…
They are both peacekeepers that just want to keep the good vibes coming and make people happy. Mel is a classic middle child, not the leader type of the stereotypical firstborns, and not the cry baby whiner youngest either. She often doesn’t have her voice heard, and considers herself the “swing vote” for her family. Dani can be correspondingly observed as the quiet one of her family. While she is only one of two children, her younger sister kind of rules the house, as in, whatever she says goes, so Dani doesn’t get much of a say. The two girls are both very self conscious of their appearances for different reasons. Mel feels as though her sister is the pretty one of the two of them, so she must take a back seat and just be little Mel, she constantly tries to make sure her sister is the shining star and she is just in the background. Dani on the other hand just has your average teenage girl self conscious worries, like “Oh no! This makes me look fat!” or the time honoured, “Does my hair look okay?” They are both always too worried about what others think of them, when they are both beautiful in their own ways, (cheesy, I