Post by mlippens on Sept 14, 2008 15:20:51 GMT -5
I think that it’s a natural way of being to want to be liked by your peers. Being popular can make you feel good about yourself. Being popular can be a good thing as long as you don’t have to pay too high of a price to be popular. Sometimes kids do certain things to be cool but they could get in trouble for it, for example a group of friends tell a kid to take something away from the teacher’s desk as a dare. They might do it because they want to be a part of a group. This kind of peer pressure can lead to even worse situations, you could be dared to drink or do drugs.
In Josie’s case she pretended to be confident and acted popular in school but she did not really feel that way about herself. On page 9, line 6, Josie says, “But there was a part of her that wondered what happen if she let them all on a secret- that some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else’s smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip ad attracted the right guy, a fake who had nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real, when you got right down to it, didn’t want to remember because it hurt even more then this.” She was in constant fear that the kids at school would really see what was underneath, so this caused a lot of stress on her part, she even had thoughts of suicide.
There are people in school that maybe would want to be popular for example a group of nerds or druggies but they wouldn’t ever be considered popular because of how they act or how they behave. This could cause anger, stress, or they may feel bad about themselves.
Being in a group is not the same as being popular, for example people would not say that a group of nerds would be popular. On page 16, line 23, they talk about Josie and how she feels about walking into the cafeteria, “Whenever she came into the cafeteria, Josie felt like a naturalist observing different species in their natural, nonacademic habitat. There were the geeks, bent over their textbooks and laughing at math jokes that no one wanted to understand and the druggies, already strung out by nine o’clock in the morning.” People are kind of put in different groups by what they have in common, not because they want to be. I think this happens naturally because the popular kids may have a certain table to sit at and then the other groups come together because they have to sit somewhere away from the popular table so they search out the kids like themselves.
I believe that not everyone can be popular because of everyone could be popular, being popular would not mean as much. People should concentrate on trying to be themselves and not worry so much about how other people see them.
In Josie’s case she pretended to be confident and acted popular in school but she did not really feel that way about herself. On page 9, line 6, Josie says, “But there was a part of her that wondered what happen if she let them all on a secret- that some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else’s smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip ad attracted the right guy, a fake who had nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real, when you got right down to it, didn’t want to remember because it hurt even more then this.” She was in constant fear that the kids at school would really see what was underneath, so this caused a lot of stress on her part, she even had thoughts of suicide.
There are people in school that maybe would want to be popular for example a group of nerds or druggies but they wouldn’t ever be considered popular because of how they act or how they behave. This could cause anger, stress, or they may feel bad about themselves.
Being in a group is not the same as being popular, for example people would not say that a group of nerds would be popular. On page 16, line 23, they talk about Josie and how she feels about walking into the cafeteria, “Whenever she came into the cafeteria, Josie felt like a naturalist observing different species in their natural, nonacademic habitat. There were the geeks, bent over their textbooks and laughing at math jokes that no one wanted to understand and the druggies, already strung out by nine o’clock in the morning.” People are kind of put in different groups by what they have in common, not because they want to be. I think this happens naturally because the popular kids may have a certain table to sit at and then the other groups come together because they have to sit somewhere away from the popular table so they search out the kids like themselves.
I believe that not everyone can be popular because of everyone could be popular, being popular would not mean as much. People should concentrate on trying to be themselves and not worry so much about how other people see them.
