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Summary and Analysis

Dawson is a good student. He always gets a high grade on exam. He had a girlfriend. One day, the girl friend came to him and gave the exactly exam about PSAT. PAST was very important exam and it is only take once, but Dawson did not want to take the exam papers, because he is honest. However, he takes the exam papers from his girl friend. He brings the papers to the school. At that time, fire alarm sounded. So, he had to leave his stuff in the class room. After he comes back, the papers were gone. He tried to find the paper, but he couldn’t. One day before take the exam, he fought with his friend Pacey, because of the problem of girl friend and the lost papers. In the next day, they gave the exam up and they came out and discuss why they did fight. In episode 15, Joey painted a picture on the wall. She was good at painting. She finished painting, and at the showing day, the picture was screwed up by someone. Her friend finally found the culprit. The culprit was white and rich and his father is a policeman. He is often breaking the school’s rule. So the president of school, he decided to kick him out of the school. Also, Andie told to the president of school that she plagiarized, but he forgive her, because she is honest and she knows her fault.

Relation to Case Study

In the case study from chapter 9 and chapter 10 and in this movie, I can see the big part of the plagiarism and small part of racism. In general in this movie, Andie stole the exam paper and plagiarized on the PSAT and get a high score. However, she recognized her fault and told the truth to the school president. Also the episode 15, the culprit told that he is white and rich, so he doesn’t think he have to following the school rules in front of the black school president. In my opinion, it is a part of the racism.

Reaction to Film

I was very interested in this movie, because I have watched the film that related to American high school. I could learn the American high school student’s informal communication and there also has action, sport, love and truth. This drama was fresh to me and good to watch, except their takings were very fast. I was little bit hard to understand. In the next time watch this drama, I will try to understand and listen carefully what they saying.