Mediastudies-flims
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Media Studies - Films Isolates, outsiders and or rebels are characters that the audience can identify with. Two films which (that reflect the rites of passage genre) have characters that possess isolate and rebel personalities. In ?white oleander? we have Astrid who is both a rebel and isolate and in ?Rebel without a cause? Jimmy is both isolate and rebel also. Both characters the audience can identify with. In ?white oleander? Astrid experiences a lot of things that make the rites of passage genre and also make her an isolate and rebel. She experiences a loss of innocence, identity crisis, a situation they did not chose and are forced to struggle against (being fostered) and her desire for independence (trying out different styles like Goth for each home she moves to). Astrid is heavily influenced by her mother, so Astrid feels the need to ?break away? and discover herself, hence rites of...


