Cady, a once straight A, honor roll student finds herself falling behind in school, and becoming a person that even her own parents do not recognize. When we are placed within a small group of individuals we often find ourselves, or change into the person we wish to become. Because the plastics lack within- group diversity, they are all expected to act the same, dress the same on certain day, and even think the same. When these types of things are implied, and forced upon, we find that many times we lose a since of our individuality. When Cady tells the girls she is considering joining the mathletes they tell her that would be social suicide, and explain that she would lose her image. Cady’s was considered “new meat,” on the first day of
