High School Confidential Analysis Questions

1. Denby uses opposition like "Everyone is afraid of her; that's why she's popular," and exaggerations such as "a waist as supple as a willow," to describe the female villain of teen movies.

2. Denby's description of the female villain focused on what she said and looked like while his description of the male villain focused briefly on his appearance and mainly on his actions. This difference suggests that looks matter a lot for females along with the things they say, but guys are only accounted on the things they do (on the most part).

3. To me, the change in tone occurs when Denby switches from talking about the movie characters to talking about the people who created those movies. His sentence structure changed along with his diction, which helped established his change in tone.

4. There's a break between paragraphs 3 and 4 because the subject changed from movie characters to the genres of films.

5. By saying directly after the question that the scenes provide emotions within the audience by over-exaggerating scenes that people can relate to.

6. Films. He used a handful of films as examples and made comments on it as support.

7. Denby's main argument is of the common use of stereotypes in high schools and the impact it has on high school students. He also talks about the overuse of these stereotypes in films using examples and finding patterns in all of them.

9. He uses the victim characters in the movies as examples since they're always going through a bunch of crap, especially from the bullies and villains of high school, but they're also talented and smart and stick out in so many ways. They're bound to be successful people and being able to make it through the issues they're having right now helps.

10. He uses the movie Carrie as an example with a girl who was tricked and humiliated and retaliated, something the boys should be able to relate to.

11. Kind of like "breaking stereotypes," these films bring more into the genre and make it more complex. It different from the usual over-usage of stereotypical archetypes which is something that Denby spoke about in this essay.

12. The audience for this essay would most likely be teen high school students. He considers the audience by speaking as if he was their teacher lecturing them, speaking directly to them and in words and phrases they would understand and relate to.