Girl in Progress Page #2

But you can be a big flake sometimes.

So here's what we're gonna do.

A contest?

Yeah. To see who's more responsible.

That's inumane.

How do we even measure that?

Ansiedad, it doesn't matter.

What matters is, I'm going to win it.

You know how Emile's always talking about

if he had somebody to run it,

he'd open up a second place?

Well, that somebody could be me.

Okay, but what about night school?

What about night school?

Remember how you told me

you were going back to school?

Web design, working for Bill Gates,

I mean, isn't that why we moved here?

Don't you see how

this is an opportunity for me

to show some real responsibility?

Actually, I do.

- Hi.

- Hey.

Would the ladies like a ride?

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Come on.

Okay, where you... Okay.

Okay.

- Really? Hang on. Hang on.

- Hold on. Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.

What are we doing tonight?

Ansiedad, get in the car, right now.

Can anyone tell me what

a coming of age story is?

Are any of you familiar with that term?

All right. A coming of age story

is the story of a young person's

inner change from child to adult,

and the transformative journey

that brings about that change.

In other words, think of it as a template

for leaving your childhood behind.

Think of these stories as a haunted house.

One full of stuff so horrifying,

that a kid goes in one end

innocent and naive,

and comes out the other side profoundly

changed from the experience itself.

How?

How do the characters

leave their childhood behind?

Like, if they hate it? Like, if it sucks?

By taking on the traditional

challenges of adolescence.

Those challenges are called

rites of passage.

They're like unwanted,

but necessary stops on the highway

to adulthood and independence.

I want you all to write this down.

Rites of passage.

I'm coming of age, Tavita.

What does that mean?

It means, being a kid is stupid,

and I'm moving on.

But I need your help.

Film and television have cornered

the market of coming of age stories.

There are many varieties,

but the kind we're concerned with

employs the "good girl gone bad" model.

You taking notes?

- Yes.

- Here we go.

First, we establish me

as a sweet, straight-arrow kid.

You know, the kind who gets bullied

in cafeterias and locker rooms

and hangs out with unpopular girls.

Okay.

To reinforce my nerditude,

I do something geeky,

like become a cello prodigy.

- But you don't play cello.

- Well, then I'll play chess.

Around this time I get a teacher

to admire what a good student I am.

Very nerd.

I will later disappoint her by losing my way

once I start hanging with

the wrong crowd.

I'll befriend a bad girl.

And learn from her

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