blog 3-prep

For this week’s blog I have decided to compare and contrast the book Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld to the movie Mean Girls Starring Lindsay Lohan. These two stories have very similar concepts and plots. In Mean Girls Lindsay plays the role of Cady Heron, a new girl from Africa. She has never been to a high school before and she soon finds out how different it is from her previous home schooling life. The same thing kind of happens to Lee Fiora. She comes from South Bend, Indiana and has never been to a boarding school before. When she enters the prestigious Ault School she soon learns how to survive. Both these girls come into the story not knowing much about the “high school years.” Cady is even more uninformed than Lee because she went to a high school back in Indiana. Once the girls start to learn about their new schools they soon change from eachother. Cady start to “hangout” with the Plastics, while Lee takes her time and analyzes every situation. At the same time though they both think in their heads the rights and wrongs of each situation. Both of the girls each meet very good friends that help them throughout their adventure of school. Cady meets Janis Ian and Lee meets Martha which is quite strange because both of those girls are kind of social out casts. Overall these two stories, characters, and settings are very similar to each other, while still having their own little surprising twists.