Mean Girls Essay

First of all, a similar representation of the group of ‘popular kids’ is evident in Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon. The popular kids are known to us as the ‘A group’ from the novel and as the ‘Plastics’ from the movie. To begin with, the people from the Plastics and the A group are represented in both texts as the cliché or stereotypical bunch of popular people. By saying this, it is being implied that they demonstrate the hackneyed qualities of people with popularity. Both groups are stereotypically shown as being judgemental, two – faced, superficial, mean and exclusive, just to name a few. For example, the people are shown as being two faced and an example of this in Mean Girls is when Regina is talking to Cady and comments on a girl’s skirt. She comments: “Oh my god, I love your skirt. Where did you get it?” However, after the girl leaves, she turns back to Cady and says: “That’s the ugliest f-ing
An example of the superficial nature of the Plastics is evident through the series of scenes where Regina keeps on going on about how she wants to lose three pounds, which conveys how she was concerned excessively about her image especially because of the desperation she showed when Cady offered her the Kalteen Bars, which she accepted based on what Cady said about them and not having actual knowledge about their purpose. Likewise, in the novel when Julie and Alice are seen by Avalon at a store, she describes how both of them were talking to each other and agreeing on how beautiful Alice was, which shows their obsession with looking good as even among themselves they were talking about appearance. Of course, there is also a difference in the way that the popular kids are shown and one of them is that in the movie, the Plastics are shown to be of influence to others in the school whereas in the novel the A group doesn’t appear to be of much