Destroying Avalon & Mean Girls
Destroying Avalon and Mean Girls
Comparative Essay
What is worse, cyber bullying or face-to-face bullying? Argue in relation to both Destroying Avalon and Mean Girls, referring to specific events throughout both texts.
Cyber bullying and face-to-face bullying are to major concerns in today’s society, the movie Mean Girls and the novel Destroying Avalon have themes about bullying in them. The texts show us how more people can be affected by certain types of bullying as well as how it can change behaviour and how bullying can build up to physical violence.
More people are affected with face-to face bullying. This is shown in Mean Girls in a scene after the Burn Book has been seen by the school. All the female students are required to go to the hall and find a way to express their anger and admit what they had done. Miss Norbury asks, “I want you to raise your hand if you have ever had a girl say something bad about you behind your back?” (Mean Girls, 2004) and everyone raises their hand then she asks, “This time, I want you to raise your hand if you have ever say anything bad about a friend behind her back?” (Mean Girls, 2004) and again everyone raises their hand. In Destroying Avalon this does not happen, the people bullied in this book are mostly from the ‘Group Z’ clique which is only about five or so people in the grade there are two other cliques who would receive bullying, ‘Group B’ and ‘Group C’ but these people are not bullied in the magnitude that ‘Group Z’ is. In a website that Avalon and Caleb create “It started getting hits from around the world. Teenagers from Canada, Germany, and the US (…)” (p. 252) but not many from their school in particular. This shows that Mean Girls had a worse form of bulling because of the magnitude affect at the school alone.
Throughout Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon the bullying changed their personalities.”Hey. How was your second day? Fine. Were people nice? Did you make many friends? Yeah.” (Mean Girls, 2004)
Comparative Essay
What is worse, cyber bullying or face-to-face bullying? Argue in relation to both Destroying Avalon and Mean Girls, referring to specific events throughout both texts.
Cyber bullying and face-to-face bullying are to major concerns in today’s society, the movie Mean Girls and the novel Destroying Avalon have themes about bullying in them. The texts show us how more people can be affected by certain types of bullying as well as how it can change behaviour and how bullying can build up to physical violence.
More people are affected with face-to face bullying. This is shown in Mean Girls in a scene after the Burn Book has been seen by the school. All the female students are required to go to the hall and find a way to express their anger and admit what they had done. Miss Norbury asks, “I want you to raise your hand if you have ever had a girl say something bad about you behind your back?” (Mean Girls, 2004) and everyone raises their hand then she asks, “This time, I want you to raise your hand if you have ever say anything bad about a friend behind her back?” (Mean Girls, 2004) and again everyone raises their hand. In Destroying Avalon this does not happen, the people bullied in this book are mostly from the ‘Group Z’ clique which is only about five or so people in the grade there are two other cliques who would receive bullying, ‘Group B’ and ‘Group C’ but these people are not bullied in the magnitude that ‘Group Z’ is. In a website that Avalon and Caleb create “It started getting hits from around the world. Teenagers from Canada, Germany, and the US (…)” (p. 252) but not many from their school in particular. This shows that Mean Girls had a worse form of bulling because of the magnitude affect at the school alone.
Throughout Mean Girls and Destroying Avalon the bullying changed their personalities.”Hey. How was your second day? Fine. Were people nice? Did you make many friends? Yeah.” (Mean Girls, 2004)