The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Movie Analysis

The movie, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, is a really great movie that shows many themes like friendship, love, growing up, and other important life themes as well. Most of these themes also deal with many different types of social support and they all help to create a really interesting movie that teaches people a lot about how support in one’s life can really affect different life events that one may experience throughout their own life.
In this movie, there are many examples of the main effect and the stress-buffering effect. The main effect is described as everyday interactions that a person has and it is also defined as being supportive on a regular basis. Some ways that the main effect is shown in this movie are, Lena, Carmen, Tibby, and Bridget are always there for each other and they always have been and will be. An example of the friends always being there for each other is, at the beginning of the movie, Carmen was crying on the phone and one of her friends was talking on the phone with her and comforting her and saying how she will always be there for her. Also, when Bridget’s mom died, the girls all said that they would always be there for her if she needed anything. This is part of the main effect, because the girls have always been there for each other every day and they will continue to be there for each other even through all of these stressful events. These actions are the biggest and strongest examples of the main effect in this movie. The stress-buffering effect is shown in this movie multiple times as well. The stress-buffering effect is when someone is there to help get rid of stress. One example of how the stress-buffering effect is shown in this movie is when Carmen is on the phone crying to her mom about her dad’s new home and family. Carmen is really stressed out about this situation and when Carmen’s mom hears about it, she wants to talk to Carmen about it to help alleviate the stress that it is causing her. Another