5 Stereotypical characters
1.) The Jock- tall and handsome, strong, well built, charming, not smart, usually a jerk or a jerk turned good, dates a cheerleader or a popular girl
2.) The Girl Next Door-the ‘perfect’ girl, she is pretty but really sweet and smart too, down to earth, friends with everyone, usually ends up with the jerk turned good or a jock
3.) The Stoner- smokes and eats, unkempt, never gets anything done or adds up to anything, the losers, thinks weed can make any situation better
4.) The Snob- mostly a popular girl, pretty but not very smart, blonde, wants everything to go her way, doesn’t associate with losers, gossips and usually spreads nasty rumors about someone innocent
5.) The Nerd-too smart for his own good, picked on by his peers, either unkempt or extremely neat, not very good looking, usually corrects people when they speak or say anything incorrect, losers, probably wears glasses, dresses out of style
Not so Stereotypical characters
1.) The Jock- fakes an injury to get out of sports to see if he can get into college by his own merit, he does and becomes a sportscaster
2.) The Girl Next Door- goes to college, starts experimenting with drugs in her dorm, ends up with a bad crowd, fails out of college, goes back home and with the support of her parents gets her drug problem under control, goes to nursing school and becomes the head nurse at the local hospital
3.) The Stoner- smokes until his fifteen year old son finds his stash and asks to smoke with him
4.) The Snob- realizes that idle gossip isn’t for her and majors in journalism and communication studies in college; she gets a job as a local news reporter spreading truth across the area
5.) The Nerd- becomes a lawyer to help the ‘little people’ who can’t help themselves
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All very good. I wonder about the snob who "realizes idle gossip isn't for her." The ironic twist there might be that later, in her career as journalist, she discovers that the little things spoken by little people can be the stuff of excellent writing/reporting; that journalism is in fact an enlightened form of gossip (at its best).
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