Character Analysis

Character Analysis-

Victim/Main character:

The main character in our film is a young girl named Lucy Merill. She is a 17 year old who has brown eyes and dark blonde hair and lives with her mum and dad. Lucy and her parents have moved house and she is facing the challenge of settling into her new house and ‘fitting in’ at her new school. As lucy has moved to a new school, she has had to disconnect from her previous friends and start her new life alone. At her old school she had some friends from her childhood who had similar hobbies to her, but at her new school she is finding it incredibly hard to make new ones as she is quite anxious and shy. At her new school the people do not like her as she doesn’t fit their idea of ‘normal’. This is because Lucy enjoys reading books and likes photography and is hoping to get a profession in journalism. Lucy has come from a privileged upbringing where most materialistic things were handed to her, this is why the bullies turn on her. They believe that, as she lives in a semi-detached house in London, England and is considered wealthy, she doesn’t belong in the rougher environment of her new school. These bullies pick on her because she is different and cannot relate to their nurturing.

Bully number1:

Due to lucy’s wealthy upbringing and how her dad had to relocate his job, the family have now moved into a rougher, urban area. In this area, the people speak and act differently to lucy therefore lucy is seen as ‘different’. As well as this, there is an element of jealousy as Lucy is quite well-off and the people that are now around her think that she is a ‘snob’. This then creates our first bully, who is known as the most popular girl in school. The element of jealousy stimulates a one-sided rivalry between this girl and lucy. Due to the first bully having a big group of friends circled around her at all times, this is causes other people to feel jealousy towards Lucy. As seen in the text messages, the bullies are uneducated as they use slang.