Back in the early 2000s There was a popular show about a high school football coach and the players that he coaches. This show highlighted the daily lives of the students and the the progression of the characters as they go through their years at Dillon High. Many of the characters seen on the show seem to be representative of much of the students and their characteristics that are present in high school today. This show can help the viewer see a glimpse of some of they people they may see in school and how to deal with them. One of the main characters of the show, Matt Saracen, represents many of the outsiders in high school wishing to get their shot at popularity and to be their star athlete for the school. At the beginning of the show Matt
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He perhaps symbolizes the majority of people today in high school. Tim is a very unmotivated, and unintelligent kid who relies on his athletic abilities to get him through high school and get into college. Tim is one of the most popular kids at Dillon High, despite the fact that he has no motivations or aspirations in life. He is constantly getting into trouble with the law, whether it be for alcohol or drug use, or assault. He bullies all of the kids who he feels are less that him because his family life is less than optimal. His mother and father are not in the picture because they were too drunk to raise him, so his brother and he had to raise themselves. Because of this messed up family life, Tim believes that he is destined to follow in the path of his parents and he will amount to nothing. Because of this logic he doesn't try at all in school or work and ultimately fails in life. This is definitely a stereotype representative of all the kids n high school who do not live up to their potential. There are too many kids these days just like Riggins who think they are too cool for school and waste away their whole school life partying and not doing their work, and will eventually find out they wasted their whole life …show more content…
In the beginning of the show Tyra does not try in school and has the same path as Riggins. She would would go out, drink all the time, and disregard everything that was truly important to her. Tyra was raised by her sisters who were all strippers and barely able to take care of the rest of the family, and she knew she wanted to make a better life for herself. At the start of freshman year Tyra had a GPA lower than a 2.0 and all of her teachers, friends, and counselors told her that she would never get into college and never make anything of her life. She used these words and inspired her to work as hard as possible to get her grades up to a suitable lever. After working for the rest of her high school career, she finally got good grades and applied to and got accepted into the University of Texas. The stereotype that highlights Tyra is the person who slacks off their freshman year, but then later realizes that they need to work as hard as possible in order to get their grades up in order to get into a good school. She symbolizes a success story of someone who managed to turn their life
He perhaps symbolizes the majority of people today in high school. Tim is a very unmotivated, and unintelligent kid who relies on his athletic abilities to get him through high school and get into college. Tim is one of the most popular kids at Dillon High, despite the fact that he has no motivations or aspirations in life. He is constantly getting into trouble with the law, whether it be for alcohol or drug use, or assault. He bullies all of the kids who he feels are less that him because his family life is less than optimal. His mother and father are not in the picture because they were too drunk to raise him, so his brother and he had to raise themselves. Because of this messed up family life, Tim believes that he is destined to follow in the path of his parents and he will amount to nothing. Because of this logic he doesn't try at all in school or work and ultimately fails in life. This is definitely a stereotype representative of all the kids n high school who do not live up to their potential. There are too many kids these days just like Riggins who think they are too cool for school and waste away their whole school life partying and not doing their work, and will eventually find out they wasted their whole life …show more content…
In the beginning of the show Tyra does not try in school and has the same path as Riggins. She would would go out, drink all the time, and disregard everything that was truly important to her. Tyra was raised by her sisters who were all strippers and barely able to take care of the rest of the family, and she knew she wanted to make a better life for herself. At the start of freshman year Tyra had a GPA lower than a 2.0 and all of her teachers, friends, and counselors told her that she would never get into college and never make anything of her life. She used these words and inspired her to work as hard as possible to get her grades up to a suitable lever. After working for the rest of her high school career, she finally got good grades and applied to and got accepted into the University of Texas. The stereotype that highlights Tyra is the person who slacks off their freshman year, but then later realizes that they need to work as hard as possible in order to get their grades up in order to get into a good school. She symbolizes a success story of someone who managed to turn their life