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Odd Girl Out Stacey's Cliques In A Walk To Remember
A clique is a small group of people with the same interests who spend most of their time together and exclude others. There are cliques in both of the moves we watched this year. Most people believe that in Odd Girl Out Stacey was the leader of the clique, but that wasn’t necessarily the case. Stacey started out by having complete power but as she started to sympathize with Vanessa, Nikki threatened her power. Overall the clique was very exclusive and they mocked anyone who wasn’t part of their group. They found Vanessa as a threat so they made her a target even though she was part of this clique. They made her believe that she was overweight when she was actually average weight. In A Walk to Remember, Landon was part of a clique for a …show more content…
In the beginning they made Clay Gephardt jump into that river so that he could be a part of their clique. They also made fun of people who were different like Jamie. They bullied her because she was different and she didn’t want to be them like everyone else. There’s positive and negative peer pressure in both movies. Positive peer pressure pressures other people to do good things. Jamie had a positive influence on Landon because of positive peer pressure. Before Jamie, Landon didn’t care about school or other people’s feelings, but after Jamie he learned that school is important and so are people’s feelings. Thanks to Jamie he becomes more determined and sets really challenging goals for himself. He raises his grades and goes to medical school which would never be possible if Jamie was not there.
There is negative peer pressure in Odd Girl Out. The first sign of negative peer pressure is when Stacey and Nikki pressured Vanessa into shoplifting. Stealing is against the law, and Vanessa was even hesitant, but Nikki pressured her into doing it by saying that if she was a good friend she would do it. Vanessa knew it was wrong, but she didn’t want to upset Stacey because she just bought her

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