Social Heirarchy

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with those of the more popular crowd within the school. By showing both types of crowds, it expands the viewing audience because everyone can relate to either on of the two crowds.
Walking down the hallway of Kennedy High School, one can easily spot out who the members of each of the two crowds are just by their appearance. Anyone who is blonde, beautiful, and looks as though she can be a model for the cover of a magazine can easily be a candidate for the popular crowd. What verifies the status of being apart of the "in" crowd is being a member of the cheerleading squad and by virtually dressing the same as Brooke McQueen. Every girl in the popular crowd strives to be the equivalent of Brooke. She seems to have mastered the art of being popular, beautiful and smart so easily, that she gives her peers a reason to believe that being able to accomplish all of these characteristics is of an easy task. For this reason, she is the perfect representation of the "in" crowd. Although she ...

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that if they are nice enough to those more popular than they are, they too can be accepted into a higher social status. This type of conduct is exactly what girl such as Sam dispise. Sam believes that the only way for people like her to become equal to the popular crowd is by breaking the imaginary boundary between the "in" crowd and those that are not in the "in" crowd. To do this, Sam thinks that those in the popular crowd must be given the type of treatment that will bring them down on the popularity scale. If this entails showing others the arrogant and mean side of the popular crowd, than she will do whatever it takes in any situation to bring out their true identity. Sam is a ...

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