There are instances in a high school career when you run into the "mean girls" clique. This clique is filled with girls with images of who they want to be and distinguish who they are. In Katie Coyle's "Fear Itself" it is evident that there is deception concerning Kara and herself and how she communicates with others. This is linked to Sean Redmond's insightful text "Celebrities and the Media" where he explains the body image and objectification that celebrities undergo because of the media and the "celebrity gaze" that affects Kara and how she views the waxy figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
One large part of this story is the continuous game that the girls play amongst themselves. The game is called "Categories" where they choose a subject …show more content…
Roosevelt (FDR). FDR's character in the story is one that is not expected or known of the former president. The way Coyle describes FDR and the language he uses makes him seem crude and younger than when he was president. This image strengthens as Kara notices his facial expression as “His mouth grins but his eyes are dead, two expressionless blue glass beads.” and later “His skin is neither warm nor cold…It feels slippery and malleable, like a melted candle.” (Coyle 358 & 359). By Coyle describing FDR in this manner, it is evident that this wax figure that Kara clings on to because he pays attention to her is literally someone that is fake but Kara ignores these facts in favor of the attention. However, this is not the image that Olive and Ruthie describe when they meet FDR in person. The girls see FDR as how he truly is and was during the tale because they weren’t infatuated nor did they want the attention that FDR had for Kara. They noticed the grotesque detail that Kara ignored. The detailing and the scene where Olive and Ruthie saw FDR is similar to a concept Redmond mentions in Celebrity and the Media that is known as the Celebrity Scan. The celebrity scan is where a celebrity (in this case FDR) is viewed under intense scrutinization and flaws are magnified to capture the impurities of the celebrity. This is seen in multiple points throughout the text to define that FDR is not
One large part of this story is the continuous game that the girls play amongst themselves. The game is called "Categories" where they choose a subject …show more content…
Roosevelt (FDR). FDR's character in the story is one that is not expected or known of the former president. The way Coyle describes FDR and the language he uses makes him seem crude and younger than when he was president. This image strengthens as Kara notices his facial expression as “His mouth grins but his eyes are dead, two expressionless blue glass beads.” and later “His skin is neither warm nor cold…It feels slippery and malleable, like a melted candle.” (Coyle 358 & 359). By Coyle describing FDR in this manner, it is evident that this wax figure that Kara clings on to because he pays attention to her is literally someone that is fake but Kara ignores these facts in favor of the attention. However, this is not the image that Olive and Ruthie describe when they meet FDR in person. The girls see FDR as how he truly is and was during the tale because they weren’t infatuated nor did they want the attention that FDR had for Kara. They noticed the grotesque detail that Kara ignored. The detailing and the scene where Olive and Ruthie saw FDR is similar to a concept Redmond mentions in Celebrity and the Media that is known as the Celebrity Scan. The celebrity scan is where a celebrity (in this case FDR) is viewed under intense scrutinization and flaws are magnified to capture the impurities of the celebrity. This is seen in multiple points throughout the text to define that FDR is not