Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Clique Summer Collection: Massie-- Character patterns-archetypes

                                In The Clique Summer Collection: Massie, by Lisi Harrison, the young and wealthy Massie Block attends an elite horse-back riding camp over the summer and eventually gets kicked out for cheating in a horse race. So unlike the rest of Massie's glamorous summers, she is forced to get a job in order to pay her parents back the money they spent on her camp. Although her parents are clearly very wealthy and are not in need of the money, they are doing their best to teach Massie a lesson on how she needs to not constantly depend on her parents money to get her by. It is completely unlike Massie's character, but when she begins her job as a makeup consultant and seller, she starts to care about her clients looks more than hers. 
                               
                                  Every morning, Massie spends about an hour doing her makeup, and another hour on her hair. She finds looking her best every single day, is part of what makes her a leader. However, when Massie begins to care about how her clients look everyday. She talks to one of the girls she gave a makeover to and gives her good makeup advice and how to make herself look better everyday. Massie starts doing this with all of her clients, and focus's less and less on herself everyday. 
                              "Her Chanel Number 9 perfume had faded, her mascara was smudged, her eye bags were fuller and darker, and her usually shiny hair was dull and dry".
                             This sentence shows how Massie's character is slightly changing; she is working so hard on helping others, she forgot to spend hours in the morning focused on herself.

                             Another example in the book where I see Massie's  character is changing, is when she forgets to "rate" her outfit out of ten, one morning. Rating each others outfits had almost become a ritual among Massie and her friends, and it definitely shows a change of character when Massie forgets to do so. It shows that she knows she will not always have time in her life to focus so much on herself, and that while having a job, her customers and clients are her first priority.

2 comments:

  1. Great post, i love the Clique! I agree with what you say, and I think it ends up being a really good experience for Massie. She learns to help others, but by working with something she loves; beauty products, clothing, and looking your best, for other people instead of herself in this case.

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  2. Thanks! Although Massie's character hasn't changed in later books, she experiences a different side of herself!

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