I have just
finished reading Be More Chill By
Ned Vizzini. Which is an adventurous book that has to do with teenage years of Jeremy;
who deals with many issues with being accepted around the society and his
peers.
Jeremy is not popular, but all he wishes
to be popular and none more. His best friend, Michel tells him that it’s not
worth it and their friendship is the only thing that matters. However, when he
learns that a pill, a small pill that you take and it will give you anything
you desire. The “Squip”; as the pill is named, has risen up cash value in its
time as it got popular. But how could two people want one thing at the same
time? Things get out of control with this pill. He does get some attention from
some popular kids at school, but other than that, the squip totally messes up
everyone’s lives that take it. People die in fires, makes them loose their
great friends, and do things they would never intend on doing. Society has totally influenced some people.
Some so bad that they must change their friends and their personally to “fit in”.
Society creates stereo-types that people then later decide to make society segregated
into these “stereo-types”. Jeremy soon realizes that a thing like popularity
doesn’t matter anymore. Because where can it actually lead you? You don’t go to
school for popularity, you go to learn. Jeremy thinks that being popular is
really important, but it’s really not. What is popularity? Society should never
influence anything. I mean they shouldn’t be segregated into those stereo-types.
Be More Chill has helped me
realize how dumb the idea of popularity is. I mean it really won’t get you
anywhere. Not to mention, how much society affects a lot of things. It made
people think in a very bad way and is broken into many stereotypes. Overall, I
highly recommend this book it teaches you a valuable lesson on how society and
how popularity is really stupid.
Great Post! I agree with how you said that society affects many things. It's quite sad that popularity is sometimes based off of stereotypes and who can fit into those stereotypes. How can we truly define "popular"? For surely in time, today's "popular" won't be popular anymore.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting! "Popular"- an awkward phrase used to define classes among teenagers. It's really dumb how some people only wants to be popular.
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