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A quick summary: When Olive Penderghast lies to her friend about her promiscuity, before she can blink, her whole school is under the impression that she is a tramp who will do anything they ask of her. As Olive’s life spirals out of her control, she looks to various leaders to help her pull all back together.
My initial reaction of this movie was that it was hilarious. Good humor helps Olive survive her misery as the new school tramp. As she retorts at the accusations of others, the audience cant help but laugh at her various situations. The comedy provides relief in the sticky situations.
Questions: Why doesn’t Leanne listen to Olive when she tries to explain the truth?
Why is Olive such a generous person? She takes the weight from a lot of people and puts it on her own shoulders.
Why are her parents sooo cool?
Rhetorical Analysis: Why is Olive such a generous person?
She was raised by her parents to be accepting and adventurous, making her well adjusted to take care of others.
Olive is a well adjusted teenager because her parents raised her to be accepting of all people and to handle sticky situations well. This helps Olive stay positive and be generous when others need her help.
Some evidence to support this is that when her friend Brandon is beat up repeatedly for his preference of homosexuality, Olive graciously agrees to help him “stick it to the man” and regain some status within their high school.
I love this movie! I'm glad you mentioned her parents, they were my favorite part. The best thing about her parents is that they used their sarcasm to benefit their children in a way to make them well rounded and adjusted, rather than cynical and judgmental. A person's ability to take a joke, or to take things less seriously is a fantastic quality to find.
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"Judy Blume should have prepared me for this."
Love it.
This movie is definitely a chick-flick but a good one. The dialog is witty and Emma Stones character is awesome. My only complaint is that Emma is way too cool in the beginning of the movie for me to believe that no one of the boy had ever noticed her. They should have made her plainer and geekier so her transformation into a modern day Hester Prynne later would have been much more dramatic. But overall a fun movie I highly recommend this movie for women. Men stay at home and don't watch online i made that mistake
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