The first five paragraphs of Denby’s “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies” are creating the generic scenario that is created in most films that are based off high school. The paragraphs set up the situation that Denby will be focused on throughout the passage. By stating the two most common types of people in a high school it creates a realization that these types have always been present in media. The first rhetorical question assumes that the reader knows what a film is, the different types of genres, and that reality is something understood. It is suggested that the reader as seen different genres of film and that the reader is able to make the comparison between the worlds created in the films to reality. I have not experienced…show more content… When the public emotionally connects to the film, reality is able to be manipulate for that individual in order to reflect that false world. On page 714 Denby claims that “Election shreds everyone’s fantasies and illusions in a vison of high school that is bleak but supremely just.” Even though the film represents reality it still has the ability to connect with the audience. These teen films create a world that in sense replaces reality. This shows the power that film has on changing the views and the emotions that people connect to certain events. These stereotypes and people attempting to conform to them result in this false reality in which people are unable to resonate with the world. Twain in “Corn-Pone Opinion” is arguing that people in society conform to the public opinion in order to keep a social standing and have prosperity. Twain on page 718 claims, “The instinct that moves to conformity did the work. It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its
