Cliques In Mean Girls

In elementary school I did not have a very dramatic social life. Sure, I had a few close friends, as well as a few enemies, but everything was relatively routine. Usually, I would play army tag with my friends, but sometimes I would fight over a class skipping rope with one of my long-time enemies. Eventually, eventually one of us would reluctantly give the skipping rope to the opposing party, but other times I would get irritated and go tell the teacher that the girl was bothering me. Occasionally, the girl would cry in an attempt to not get in trouble, but normally the teacher would tell us to apologize to each other and the matter would be forgotten. These types of confrontations were the most dramatic events in my life during elementary school. I used to think that high school was just going to be about studying, but this changed after I watched a series of teen movies about high school. It began with a sleepover I attended in Grade Five, where we watched Mean Girls. The film depicts Cady, a girl who is attending high school for the first time, and her quest to take down the clique’s leader, Regina George. It included elements of romance, as Cady eventually …show more content…
In Mean Girls, the students were divided into several stereotypical cliques, including the Asian Nerds, the Plastics, the Preps, and the Cool Asians. These didn 't accurately represent the students at my school, firstly, though there were cliques, they were much less concrete than the cliques in the films. People seemed to move freely between groups and everyone was courteous. Secondly, there was no clear hierarchy of social groups, so there was no one clique that everyone wanted to belong to. There were numerous groups of friends, and though some liked to exclude others, many did not. Though many social groups were comprised mostly of a single ethnicity, there was usually one or two members of a different