Alexandra Robbins Outcasts

Fridman, an activist in the fight to revive the “nerd”, gives real world examples and comparisons to help develop his argument that America needs nerds. In his piece Fridman writes this,

I simply recollect strolling amongst them and feeling out of the blue that I had a place some place" (198). Charlie communicated how it felt when he made his initial couple of companions. He says he had an inclination that he has a place some place and he wasn't simply one more number. He felt that others look after

Let me start off by saying this reading really opened up my eyes. It’s crazy that there is so much that comes into consideration when being apart of a society. High school is a big part of many people’s lives, they need to make it out big in the hallways. This means that people will do anything in their power just to fit in with the “cool kids”. In reality there is such a thing of a higher status and a lower status, but the fact that in high schools it’s a huge problem is sad. When I was in high schools, which wasn’t that long ago, this was a big problem. People needed to have the hottest clothes, shoes, phones, and music, in order to just be recognized. The funny thing is was that, the “nerds” were very high in demand as well. The cool kids wanted to be on their side as

Fridman described the way nerds are seen “ ostracized”, meaning banish or outcast to identify the social role a nerd is. In other words, nerds are view as a discrimination. Fridman, later on, reveals that being smart can change your status from cool to loser/outcast. He introduces to the reader’s that in U.S elementary school’s, is where it all begins (when people are starting to label other’s), clarifying that it starts on an early age. Then it leads up to high schools to college. Fridman reveals, when a book is chosen over an activity, your put in a group call “ social outcast”. People also state that books can be a problem to their communication with other

Television is a huge part of the daily lives of human beings. The things that people see on screen help them form their own values and opinions about the world around them. Television is also a great source for people to feel represented through fictional characters and events. And for teenagers, it is even more important to find something they can relate to during a period in their life when they are still trying to figure out who they are in society. High school is a place for teenagers to build an idea of what kind of people they want to be in the future, and the decisions they make could affect the rest of their lives. In the television show Freaks and Geeks created by Paul Feig and produced by Feig and Judd Apatow, viewers get to

In response, Charlie feels infinite when he is with his friends whom he met at the beginning of his freshman year, and when he is in the tunnel that makes him feel good and present. Although he enters high school as a shy freshman with no friends, Charlie eventually feels infinite when he is with his friends who accept him for who he is. At the beginning of the novel, Charlie, talking about his first day of school the next

Freaks and geeks is about young teens in high school. They go through situations like “Bullying,fitting in, and peer pressure. Throughout the show there someone getting bully or someone being peer pressure. In my paragraphs there going to tell you bullying, fitting in ,and peer pressure relates to the world now. Read on to find out more about these things.’

Or so they think. It’s easier to be in the limelight; wear the cool clothes, hang out at all the hip joints, be the talk of the school. It’s infinitely better than being a loser, at least according to the protagonists of Amy Ignatow’s The Popularity Papers and Ned Vizzini’s Be More Chill. Ignatow’s Lydia and Julie and Vizzini’s Jeremy all enact in experiments of sorts in order to achieve the ultimate goal: to succeed socially.

Before this memory overcomes he meets Sam and Patrick. Sam and Patrick are both seniors in high school who are very outgoing but are not on the popular scale in high school. They invite Charlie in and welcome him and introduce him to new music, parties, and other people. Charlie is having the best time of his life and develops a strong

In experiencing these tragic moments, Charlie goes completely dull and emotionless. He is internally distorted by which the depression that consumes him. As time moves along, Charlie finds his “calling” in high school after meeting Sam and Patrick, or I like to call them “the misfits”. These two supporting characters take Charlie completely under the wing and expose him to things like drugs and explicit sexual content to relieve stress. Sam and Patrick show Charlie to let loose and find temporary happiness fore, they believe that lasting happiness is truly non existent. Charlie grows from an attitude of pessimism to optimism after finding that happiness differs from everyone. I personally believe there were two points of climax in this story line, one where Charlie and Sam share a moment in Sam’s bedroom. Sam states “...If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am…”(Chbosky 201). I believe this moment shows great growth significance because a Charlie has never felt such an intimate love for

Charlie is sort of a loner at school. He doesn't have many friends and is known as a bit of an outcast even though his two older siblings are popular. Charlie meets a few friends, Sam and Patrick, and although they are seniors, they welcome him

Charlie also experiences indecisiveness when it comes to his feelings for Sam (cite book). He has a low self-esteem, because he feels like he isn’t worthy of people and he even quotes, “I thought no one noticed me,” (cite

Driving on his way home, he imagined his friends in the car with him and began talking to himself out loud. He stopped when he realized how tragically absurd it seemed. Perhaps one of the best scenes in the book is when Charlie defended Patrick when Brad and his football buddies ganged up against him. I liked how Charlie threatened Brad, which was non-aggressive but stern enough to spike fear in them. Consequently, Charlie was welcomed in his group of friends once again.

So in conclusion Charlie's life as an wallflower isn't the easiest thing out there for him with social awkwardness that he has it makes it so much harder for him. If Charlie was more social he wouldn't have these problems but he also wouldn't be the wallflower he is called to be. It's very important to take close attention to the text because he can say he feels alive with his friends but he could really feel alone or lost in his

Quite early in the book Charlie wants to be more than friends with Sam but his feeling aren’t returned. When Charlie spends more time with Sam and Patrick he is drawn into the world of drugs, sex,