Tai’s Makeover in Clueless

Tai's Makeover in Clueless

Many high school students are not satisfied with who they are, who they hang out with, or even how they look. The movie Clueless written by _____

and directed by Amy Heckling gives viewers a deeper look on high school students. Tai's makeover in the movie Clueless is very significant

because it shows to the viewers that teenagers, epecially in women, have to deal with

the feel of belonging to a group, being peer pressuring by others, and changing the looks to feel attractive.

The movie is about...

It is very important to a high school student to have a group of friends they could count on and hang out with. Life at school wouldnt be easy for a

high school student with no friends because at the teenager stage, the teens would like to share secrets with someone their age, not many of them go home and

ask their parents for advices. The character Tai in Clueless was a newly transferred student to the school, geeky-looking and was somewhat a "loner"

because she was still new to the school and hasnt made any friends yet. Cher was nice enough to accept Tai in to her group and made Tai feel that she belongs

with them, the popular

girls. Who wouldnt like to be known as one of the girls from the popular group, right? With Tai being apart of Cher's group, everyone in the school looked

at Tai differently and gave her respect and attention. If Tai was still the unknown girl at school, not that many people would know who she is. For example,

in movies like Mean Girls, it shows how much high school teens like to be apart in a group of friends.

High school students do deal with situations such as being peer pressuring by their friends to do things that they dont dare to do. In many cases,

they are drugs, pranks, smoking, driving, etc but in the movie Clueless, it shows that Tai is being peer pressuring by Cher and Dee to transform the way

she looks to someone like Cher and Dee. Before meeting Cher and Dee, Tai was satisfied with the way she looked and the people around her but once

Cher and Dee changed Tai inside and out completely, Tai became a new person. Cher and Dee were successfully giving Tai a makeover where they feel

that the new Tai is better than the old. Its not just the movie that shows that high school students are being peer pressuring, the article

ONLINE ARTICLE ON TEENAGERS/ HS STUDENTS BEING PEER PRESSURED TO DO THINGS

Tai's makeover is very important in the movie because it demostrates that many teenagers have very low self-esteem on the way they look, most of

them are feel very