Post by feliciosara on Sept 14, 2008 15:22:36 GMT -5
Some kids wish to become popular and hang out with the “cool” crowd. Others just want to be themselves. To half of the kids popularity is the world to them, but the other half do not want to take the risk of getting fake friends. Either way you just want to believe for who you are and make the best friends you possibly can.
Being popular is having friends that can be mean to you whenever they want and could be fake to you. Popular is trying to dress the way they do. Popular is when you cannot talk to others that are not in the group. You can only talk to their click and not to others people or only the ones they like. Popular is doing the stuff they want and not what you actually really want. Also, money takes a big part in popularity. The pocketbooks, clothes, and jewelry you wear help you become popular and fitting in with the crowd.
Belonging to the group is when you are naturally liked. You do not have to try to fit in. You’re not the one that has to worry about what you look like and how your hair looks. People will like you the way you are, and for who you are. No matter what stereotypical group you are in, you do not have to try to be like anyone, you just belong. In Nineteen Minutes Peter was never really liked by anyone and he did not hang out with any person from his school. “Josie still hung out with Peter. And thank God for that, because no one else really did.” (Picoult, 139) This shows that he didn’t have any friends and Josie was his only true friend that just liked him for him. She did not care what anyone else thought. She knew Peter for whom he actually was and did not care what others would say if they saw them together.
Anyone can be popular in their own way, whether you have friends for having the same interest as somebody else, or you know the person for whom they really are. “Occasionally when Peter walks down the hall in school, he saw Josie with her new group of friends, he didn’t recognize her. She dressed differently now- in jeans that showed off her flat belly and a rainbow of T-shirts layered one over the other. She wore make-up that made her eyes look enormous.” (Picoult, 202-203) This basically explains Josie being popular. In Peter’s eyes, he knows the real Josie and likes her for who she really is. Josie tries to fit in and be part of the popular crowd. She really is not welcomed in that group, only for the fact that she is going out with Matt. Really, her only friend is Matt. If she wasn’t going out with Matt she would most likely be a nobody and would probably never talk to them ever.
In conclusion, people are in all different groups of friends. The actual definition of people popular is having the ability to talk to many people that like you and have many friends. As some people think, in order to be popular you have to follow in the footsteps of the leader in the biggest pack. You can fit in with whomever you want, but there can be consequences if you pick the wrong type of people to try and be friends with.
Being popular is having friends that can be mean to you whenever they want and could be fake to you. Popular is trying to dress the way they do. Popular is when you cannot talk to others that are not in the group. You can only talk to their click and not to others people or only the ones they like. Popular is doing the stuff they want and not what you actually really want. Also, money takes a big part in popularity. The pocketbooks, clothes, and jewelry you wear help you become popular and fitting in with the crowd.
Belonging to the group is when you are naturally liked. You do not have to try to fit in. You’re not the one that has to worry about what you look like and how your hair looks. People will like you the way you are, and for who you are. No matter what stereotypical group you are in, you do not have to try to be like anyone, you just belong. In Nineteen Minutes Peter was never really liked by anyone and he did not hang out with any person from his school. “Josie still hung out with Peter. And thank God for that, because no one else really did.” (Picoult, 139) This shows that he didn’t have any friends and Josie was his only true friend that just liked him for him. She did not care what anyone else thought. She knew Peter for whom he actually was and did not care what others would say if they saw them together.
Anyone can be popular in their own way, whether you have friends for having the same interest as somebody else, or you know the person for whom they really are. “Occasionally when Peter walks down the hall in school, he saw Josie with her new group of friends, he didn’t recognize her. She dressed differently now- in jeans that showed off her flat belly and a rainbow of T-shirts layered one over the other. She wore make-up that made her eyes look enormous.” (Picoult, 202-203) This basically explains Josie being popular. In Peter’s eyes, he knows the real Josie and likes her for who she really is. Josie tries to fit in and be part of the popular crowd. She really is not welcomed in that group, only for the fact that she is going out with Matt. Really, her only friend is Matt. If she wasn’t going out with Matt she would most likely be a nobody and would probably never talk to them ever.
In conclusion, people are in all different groups of friends. The actual definition of people popular is having the ability to talk to many people that like you and have many friends. As some people think, in order to be popular you have to follow in the footsteps of the leader in the biggest pack. You can fit in with whomever you want, but there can be consequences if you pick the wrong type of people to try and be friends with.