Mean Girls

In the movie Mean girls, high school student Cady Heron was taught in Africa by her parents. She was this innocent girl who; never dated, never party and wasn’t popular. When her family moves to suburbia of Illinois, Cady at last, got the chance to encounter in a public school. However, Cady begins to change who she was in order to fit; in which that actions relates to the theory called Communication Accommodation Theory. This theory is show individuals during conversation, attempt to modify…

In the movie, Mean Girls, it started with a girl named Cady who came from Africa, and used to be home schooled. Her first day in North Shore High School started bad, because she had difficulty making friends. The first people she meets are Janice and Damian. Janice, and Damian introduce the whole school to Cady including a group of girls that are known as the plastics. The plastics are a group of girls who are well known, and they like to express negatively opinions about everyone in school, and…

“Mean Girls: Adolescent Stage of Development” Adolescence is an important stage of development. Many viewers that have watched this movie do not realize that it shows so many developmental concepts. This movie is not only for laughs but for real life examples of these concepts are involved in an everyday life. Mean Girls is a movie that is great for showing the life of an adolescent through physical, personal, and social development. The main character is a girl named Cady. She is originally…

In 2004, the movie “Mean Girls” was released and caught the interest of many people across the world. Teenage Cady Heron who is played by actress Lindsay Lohan, was homeschooled in Africa by her parents. When she has to move, she gets to experience public school and how it can be so cruel and divide students into their own cliques. Cady quickly finds out how her soon to be new group of friends earned the nickname “The Plastics”. “Mean Girls” is a great example of the Hero’s Journey because it…

The cult classic movie, Mean Girls, revolves around a sixteen year old girl named Cady Heron. Cady has been homeschooled in Africa for her entire life and is gifted in STEM. She moves to a small town in Evanston, Illinois, and meets an array of people as she assimilates to public school in the United States. She learns new skills that guide her social survival in an American high school. In the beginning, Cady is a sweet and quiet girl who keeps to herself. She meets Janice and Damian who coach…

Mean Girls highlights the relatable social and power dynamics in high school through the two opposite personalities of Regina George and Cady Heron, while revealing the cruel world that girls can bring upon students using persuasion and coercion. I will be analyzing the movie through story characteristics in narrative transportation theory and social judgement theory. Narrative transportation theory can be applied to movies to persuade its viewers through identifiable characters, imaginable plot…

In the very popular comedy movie, Mean Girls, which was produced in 2004, there are many laughs about the high school cliques but there is also psychology throughout the film. The movie stars Lindsay Lohan who plays a 16 years old named Cady Heron whose parents are zoologist who traveled to South Africa and have returned after 12 years. Since she was away she was homeschooled and is attending public school for the first time in Evanston, Illinois. She befriends Janis and Damian who warn her…

Social Psychology Concepts in Mean Girls ‘Mean Girls’ is a classic romantic comedy amongst young women, and some young men, in America today. The main character, Cady, is a new student who transferred from Africa. Because she was home schooled until her junior year of high school, she experiences great shifts in her social influences as well as some shifts in her social thinking throughout the movie. Because the film is set in an American high school, it provides an ample amount of social…

Mean Girls is a film, which premiered in 2004 with starred major actress: Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Lindsay Lohan. The film begins with a sixteen-year-old girl named Cady Heron who just moved to Evanston, Illinois from a twelve year research trip in Africa with her parents. Cady begins her first day of public school, since she was homeschooled, and she meets a group of three girls who are very popular and they are known as the Plastics: Regina the Queen Bee of…

literary works, too. The movie Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, tells the tale of Cady Heron, a newcomer to North Shore High School and public schooling, as she is invited to join the Plastics, a trio of girls that follow Regina George who view themselves as better than others. She does not want to join their ranks, but two of her new friends encourage her to do it for the sole purpose of gossip, resulting in her experience as she goes from undercover Plastic to mean girl to redeemed…