High School Is Hell

Coming into reading this article, I had never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer nor had I known quite what is was about. My guess was it was about some girl who just went around slaying cute little vampires. I had no idea that she was a high school girl and faced all the challenges that many teenagers face today. I found the article to be particularly interesting with all the metaphors and comparisons it had from a teenager’s life to Buffy’s world of horror creatures. I most likely would not have caught all those comparisons and I especially liked how the author went season by season discussing important comparisons. I noticed that in season 2 there was a lot of lost identity between the characters. Just about everyone was pretending to be something they were not and eventually were exposed to their true selves. I feel like this is a large problem in today’s society that people don’t always act themselves in order to impress others. Buffy takes it a step further by having people’s real identities being mummies or demon-snakes or robots with tendencies to kill their wives. In Buffy’s world, being those types of people isn’t uncommon and I feel like the writers were trying to get across a message as to be yourself, which I find to be very true. I also liked how they represented graduation in the last season. The whole senior class came together to fight the evil major and in the end the school was blown up to symbolize people going their separate ways. I connected with this because I really came close with my graduating class towards the end of senior year but ended up going away to college at different places then most. All in all, I enjoyed this article and who knows? I may end up watching a few episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!