Comparison of Mean Girls and Speak

Similarities of Mean girls and Speak High school can be a great experience or a terrible one. Some people come in and pass all of their classes in flying colours and have a lot a lot friends, others however come in and fail all of their classes and are an outcast because they have a hard time with it. In the movie mean girls and the novel speak the main characters have about the same experience. The stories even are parallel to each other. The three main similarities of Mean Girls and Speak are the Main Characters; Melinda from Speak, and Cady from Mean Girls the Plot of the story and the satire used throughout the film and novel. The main characters are parallels to each other. For example, when Melinda and Cady start out in in highschool, they enter having no ideas what to expect. “My first class is biology. I can’t find it and I get my first demerit.” (Anderson 6). In the Mean Girls movie, Cady asked where her health class was and her friends made her miss her entire class. Another example is how they favourite one class and excel in it. For Cady shes so good at math that in Junior year, she takes senior AP trig. Melinda also favours art “Art follows lunch like a dream follows a nightmare.” (9). One final similarity is that they enter high school with no friends. On the first day of school, Cady gets denied seats in her first class because people didn’t want her to sit near them. When Melinda goes to school on the first day of school she has a hard time finding a seat on the bleachers because all of her friends abandoned her “I am an outcast. There is no point looking for my ex-friends.” (4).
Another similarity is the Plot of the story. On the first day, both Cady and Melinda gave troubles in the cafeteria. Cady ends up eating lunch in the bathroom because no one will le her sit with them. Melinda gets mashed potatoes on flung on her runS out and gets in trouble “I will forever be known as “that girl who got nailed by mashed potatoes the first day.”