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Some Girls are Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all girl clique both feared and revered by the students at her school until rumours about her started circulating. Now, Regina has been "frozen out" and her ex brst friends are out for revenge. She takes solace ibn tbe company who used to be a victim of her bullying as Regina works hard to make amends for the past.
Discussion questions: - The words "brutal", "vicious", "mean", "harsh", "powerful" and "believable" have been used to describe the characters and events in this book. Is this an apt description of real high school life here at Secord or merely a "work of fiction"?
- This book is another example of what bullying can do- the harm it can cause and the people that it can hurt. If you have read "The Monkeyface Chronicles", the issue of bullying is also a theme in this book. Do you find any difference in the level of bullying between the girls involved in this book and the boys who bullied in The Monkeyface Chronicles"?
For the first questiion those words I do not believe are apropriate for Secord but I do believe in some schools its could be possible.Im not saying Secord doesn't have those people, the bullys, but I don't think it's as harsh.I do however believe its possible in maybe some other school.
ReplyDeleteAs for the second question I do believe that the bullying is on a different level. The bullying in this book was more constant and more physical. In this book they were constantly tripping eachother down stairs and elbowing eachother in gym but in the monkey chronicles there was only one major fight and the rest of the physical stuff was less not that it didnt effect the character majorly.
-Amber Raivio
I think it merely a work of fiction. It is a stereotypical definition of high school life. Many students believe that when they get to grade 9, that all this terrible stuff described in the book is going to happen to them. In a way it is preparing children for the worst. It focuses on all the possible, but very unlikely things that occur at a school.
ReplyDeleteSecord is far from being like this. Our school may have a couple bullies, but NOTHING as bad as this book. "Some Girls Are" is in a way taking every day problems and expanding them to the unbelievable issues that movies use all the time.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit from the other novels as it had a different view on teenage life. It gives hope. It's saying that life as a teenager may get bad, REALLY bad, but you have to keep fighting forward to get where you're suppose to be in life. Another view on this book could possibly be to show that what you're facing today, isn't as bad as it could be and how you should be happy that you're alive and not stuck out in the middle of no where with no one there for you.
Overall, a very well written book that can have many different views on life.
--laura hicks
I don't think this is a really accurate description of high school life at Secord, at least in my experience. I have never been involved in any of the things that the characters have (drinking, parties, cliques, etc.), and found the events of the story to be slightly extreme. I'm not sure if this happens in other groups of people at Secord, and I'm sure situations like the one in the book have occurred at other schools. I just don't think that it is common enough to call it an apt depiction of high school life in general, but rather a work of fiction designed to be cautionary tale to potential bullies to demonstrate to consequences of their actions. I found the bullying in this book to be much more thorough and unsettling in this book than in the Monkey Face Chronicles. In the Monkey Face Chronicles, the bullying seemed somewhat erratic, and Philip had a few friends and his family to help and support him. In this book, Regina was almost entirely alone in her struggle. She was rejected by essentially everyone and her friendship with Michael didn't even seem genuine for the majority of the book. As I stated earlier, the bullying was extremely thorough and constant.
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