High School Popularity: Everything Sucks Losing My Mind and Finding Myselft in a High School Quest For Cool

Hannah Friedman's wish to become popular started when she was known as “The Monkey Girl”. All throughout middle school she was known as “The Monkey Girl” because she had a pet monkey named Amelia. Hannah did not want to go to public school with all the humiliations she faced, and this led to her parents enrolling her in private school. Hannah goes to a boarding school and there is where she hopes everything will change for her. Here the most popular clique was The Great Eight. Hannah falls for this clique and she starts a life she had always dreamed of. The life Hannah was now living was not the way she viewed the “popular life” to be. She starts dating Adam and she becomes familiarized with weed, from that she decides to try a lot of new things including sex. She thought since her friends were doing it why not try it herself, she realized sex was not what people made it seem. As she stated “Sex is a conspiracy. A big fat, horrible lie that everyone pretends is great and wonderful and fun just to trick people into procreation”(Friedman 192). Hannah believes sex is not as great as everyone says it is instead it's a way of getting people to try it.

When senior year comes around Hannah is stressed more than ever with college application and school work. She makes herself open to drugs, and she becomes addicted. After being deferred from Yale, she thought her life was officially over. She tried cocaine for a change, and she didn't care about school or popularity. Hannah stated “After ten seconds, light expands my forehead and pulses through my brain. I feel vast and bright. Who cares about all those stupid admissions officers and the Great Eight?”(Friedman 204). Hannah felt that if her dream is crushed nothing else in life matters. She later got a mail from Yale saying she got in. Hannah and Julian were accused by Mr. Putz of doing inappropriate things during school and wants to consider suspension for the two, however, Mr. Friedman thought otherwise. He thought Mr. Putz had not evidence and so no one was suspended. Hannah learns that life is not always about popularity that it is about being with the ones who you love.
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Everything Sucks: Losing my mind and Finding Myself in A High School Quest for Cool, Hannah Friedman, July 14,2009 , HCI Teen

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Friedman, Hannah. Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself in High                                  School Quest for Cool. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2009. Print.