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Assignment One Lauren Ferrell

Gossip Girl

Relevant Background Information The show is set in on the in the year 2007-2008. Some important locations in this series is: Grand Central train station where Serena van der Woodsen arrives at, Brooklyn where lives, Constance which is the school that they all attend, and a party venue in the Upper East Side where has the Kiss on the Lips party. The series is based off of the book series by . The first observation that I did is on the first show in the series titled ‘’. The second observation that I did was on the second show in the series titled ‘’. Finally, the third observation I did was on the third show in the series titled ‘Poison Ivy’.

Actors ❖ Serena van der Woodsen is the main character of the show. The ‘’ girl of the Upper East Side. Serena left town the year before and when she shows back up everyone is trying to figure out why she ever left in the first place. Mistakes from her past are haunting her and she is now back and trying to make amends with everyone and forget about everything she did in her past. She is worried about her brother and the relationship she has with Blair Waldorf, her best friend. ❖ Dan Humphrey is considered the outsider character because he is not rich or considered important like everyone else. Serena van der Woodsen is his main focus, whom he has had a crush on for years. He is having to constantly remind everyone of who he is and he has to work twice as hard for everything he does at school, and still doesn’t get noticed. ❖ Blair Waldorf is Serena van der Woodsen’s best friend. Her and Serena are in a constant competition for who is the ‘it’ girl on the Upper East Side. Nate Archibald, Blair’s boyfriend, is considered the ‘Golden Boy’ of the Upper East Side. Everyone considers them ‘The perfect couple’. She is also the queen of schemes. ❖ Nate Archibald is Blair Waldorf’s girlfriend, ’s best friend, and the ‘Golden Boy’. He is always getting into the middle of things while he’s trying his hardest to avoid them. He has a thing for Serena but denies it to everyone except to her. ❖ Chuck Bass: He’s Nate Archibald’s best friend. His dad owns a major company so he’s one of the richest ones. He has no interests other than girls and partying. He is always causing trouble, or helping cause it.

Artifacts ❖ Cell phones: Everyone is connected through their cell phones to get blasts sent to them. They can instantly know the latest gossip as soon as it comes out. They send tips in and she posts as she gets them so that everyone can know what the popular Upper East Siders are doing at all times and locations. ❖ Gossip Girl’s narration: While watching the show, Gossip Girl’s voice narrates what’s happening and will give you extra information on things that are happening. She is making a constant connection about things that happen and she is Assignment One Lauren Ferrell

always making predictions and asking questions about what you think will happen from events that go on.

Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 1 Observation 1

❖ 3 mins: Serena van der Woodsen is on a train that arrives at a station in New York. Gossip Girls voice comes on as the narrator and says “Hey upper east siders. Gossip Girl here, and I have the biggest news ever. One of my many sources meLanie91, sends us this… Spotted at Grand Central, bags in hand, Serena van der Woodsen. Was it only a year ago our “It” girl mysteriously disappeared for “Boarding School”? And just as suddenly, she’s back. Don’t believe me? See for yourselves. Lucky for us meLanie91 sent proof. Thanks for the photo, Mel.” Then Rufus appears and he yells “Dan! Jenny!” and Dan and Jenny are walking through Grand Central. They hug and Rufus asks them how their mom is doing. They say fine and he asks “Like maybe I never should have left fine, or taking time out from my marriage was the best idea I ever had, fine?” Then they leave to go home from Grand Central. Dan spots Serena walking through Grand Central. Gossip Girl’s narration comes back on and says “Spotted-- Lonely Boy. Can’t believe the love of his life has returned. If only she knew who he was. But everyone knows Serena. And everyone is talking. Wonder what Blair Waldorf thinks. Sure they’re B.F.F.s, but we always thought Blair’s boyfriend Nate had a thing for Serena.” It shows Blair at her house setting up for a party when she receives the text that Serena is back. Blair’s mom shows up and tell her that if she is going to wear one of her designs to at least get it properly fitted first. Nate is shown talking to his father and some other men about college. He suggests other colleges than Dartmouth and his father tells him no that Dartmouth is far away enough for his mother. Blair shows up and asks to borrow Nate. Chuck Bass is shown sitting on a couch with two girls and he calls after Nate to ask him if he wants some fresh air. Blair pulls him into a bedroom. ❖ 5 mins: Blair has pushed Nate into the bedroom and she tells Nate that she’s ready and wants to do it now. Nate was confused because he thought she wanted to wait. Gossip Girl comes on and says “ lock it down with Nate, B. Clock’s ticking.” Then people at Blair’s party start seeing the gossip girl post about Serena being seen getting off of the train at Grand central. It then jumps scenes to Serena getting out of a car at an unknown location. It then jumps back to Blair and Nate saying they love each other, because Blair has her suspicions about Nate and Serena. Serena shows up at Blair’s party and Blair’s mom spots her. Her mom knocks on Blair’s door and tells her that Serena is back. As Serena is walking through the party and people are making comments like “...But I heard she was pregnant.” and “No, but it’s rehab. Sign me up for that.” and “She looks good.”. Serena finds her mom at the party and greets her. Serena asks her mom “So where is he? They haven’t let him out yet?” and her mom replies with “Let’s not discuss that right now okay? I thought you might want to see some of your friends.” ❖ At 11 mins: Serena and Nate were looking at each other across the room when Blair opens a door and comes in between them. Blair hugs Serena and talks about how Assignment One Lauren Ferrell

good it is to see her. Blair’s mom invites Serena to stay for dinner and Serena declines and says that there’s somewhere she has to go. She leaves and yells back that she’ll see Blair at school tomorrow, so Blair assumes that she’s back for good. Blair’s friend asks if she knew she was coming and Blair replied that of course she did and that she just wanted it to be a surprise. Gossip girl comes in and says “Word is that S bailed on B’s party in under 90 seconds, and didn’t even have one Limoncello. Has our bad girl really gone good? Or is it all just part of an act.” Serena walks into another room and a receptionist says “Young lady, you can’t be here. Visiting hours are over.” and Serena replies with “I’m family. He’s my brother.” And it shows a young boy laying in a hospital bed. The boy, Eric, wakes up to see his sister who was just gone for almost a year laying beside him in a chair sleeping. Eric wakes her up and she apologizes for being a terrible sister to him and that she wishes she would have been here for him. He talks about how there must be a lot of rumors why she’s back and she replies that none of them mention him, because he doesn’t want anyone to know what he did. He says “Just like mom wants”. Thier mom walks in talking about how she wishes Serena would have stayed at home last night. Serena tells her that she was going to ask the doctor if she could take Eric to breakfast and her mom says that she’s just going to get him a croissant from down the street. Serena gets up and walks after her mom and asks what she has told people where Eric is. Her mom replies with “His Aunt Carrol’s in Miami”. Serena gets mad and says “So you’re hiding him? He tries to take his own life and you’re worried it’s going to cost you mom of the year?” Her mom leaves the hospital. Cuts to Dan, Jenny, and Rufus in their kitchen. Rufus is in a magazine as #9 in the top 10 forgotten bands of the 90s. Jenny says that it would only matter if it was on Gossip Girl and Dan makes a comment about how he doesn’t read Gossip Girl. Jenny talks about how she saw it pulled up on his laptop last night. Jenny is working on party invitations to ‘The Kiss on the Lips Party’ and how if she made the invitations that she could have one. Serena is seen walking into a hotel and runs into Nate. She tells Nate that she’s staying here and asks what he’s doing there and he said that he wanted to see how she was. He thinks that Serena came back for him but she tells him that she didn’t. Dan is running down the street to catch the bus. The same bus that Nate and Chuck are on talking about Serena. Chuck asks Dan if he’s following them. Jenny gives Blair the invitations to the party and she receives her own. ❖ 30 mins: They end up going through the school day all running into each other. Jenny starts making her dress to go to the party in and Dan decides to go find Serena at her hotel. Serena asks Dan on a date the night of the party and they end up going to a fancy restraunt. Serena pays for since Dan didn’t have a lot of money and then he ends up taking her to play pool. He gets a text from Jenny that she needs help and they go to save Jenny from Chuck who took her to the roof and was trying to kiss her.

Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 2 Observation 2 Assignment One Lauren Ferrell

3 mins: Gossip Girl starts her intro with “Top story on my page, Serena van der Woodsen, everybody’s favorite “it” girl, has just returned from a mysterious absence.” Then, it starts a flashback to the previous episode reminding you of what all happened such as: Serena getting off of the train, Blair and Nate in bed and then Blair’s mom calls to them that Serena is home, Nate asking Serena if she came back for him, her visiting her brother Eric at the hospital, Chuck reminding Serena about how he knows that Serena slept with Nate before she left, Dan helping Serena pick up her spilled purse in her hotel bar, Serena asks Dan when he is going to take her out on a date, Serena’s mom & Dan’s mom talking about how Dan took Serena on a date to Dan’s dad’s concert and Serena’s mom thinks that it’s a by Rufus to get closer to Lily, Serena showing up at the Kiss on the Lips party to get Jenny from Chuck, and Serena leaves with Dan and Jenny in a cab with Dan asking if he has a shot at a second date. Gossip Girl asks if the upper east side will ever be the same now that Serena is back.

5 mins: Opens showing chefs prepare a variation of foods with Gossip Girl narrating, “I bet you’re wondering what Gossip Girl is doing up so early. Truth is, I never went to bed. Why waste precious time dreaming when waking life is so much better? Is there really anything than a lazy Sunday? Reading the paper in bed, sipping coffee, scrambling an egg or two. Yeah, right. We upper east siders don’t do lazy. Breakfast is brunch, sand it comes with champagne, a dress code and a hundred of our closest friends… and enemies. Chuck’s dad, Bart Bass, is hosting the annual brunch for his foundation. Everyone is invited. Well, not everyone.” While Gossip Girl talked it showed people setting up Bart’s brunch. Then it goes to Brooklyn where Jenny and Dan are. Dan checks in on Jenny to see how she’s doing and if she wants to talk about what happened at the party with Chuck. She just replies with that she is, but she just feels really stupid for thinking Chuck really just wanted ‘to talk’. Jenny then asks how Dan is because of his goodnight he said to Serena. Then it flashes back to show Serena getting out of the cab, Dan trying to get out of the cab to walk her to the door but Serena shuts the door and it hits Dan. The cab starts to drive off but then slams on the brakes cause Jenny yells stop, so Serena walks up to the cab and Dan says “Hi” and waves and then the cab drives away.

11 mins: Serena is at Eric’s room in the hospital talking to him about how Dan waved to her goodnight. It starts going back and forth between Serena and Eric talking about it and Dan and Jenny talking about it. Dan starts to plan asking her for a second shot and apologizing for the wave. Serena starts telling Eric about how mean Blair was to her last night. She decides she is going to go visit Blair. It cuts to Blair telling her friends that Serena better stay away. She tells them that she is really mad at her what what she did, and her friend’s shrug because they don’t know what she did. Blair starts wondering if Nate remembered brunch, so she calls him and wakes him up to remind him about brunch. Chuck is shown waking up with two girls in his bed with him and they turn out to be workers for his father’s hotel. Chuck and Nate start talking about how Dan punched him last night and Chuck says “Better a broken nose, than a broken heart.” and Nate replies with “What? I didn’t even talk to Serena last night.” and Chuck says “Who said anything about Serena?” Then it shows Dan ready for brunch to go talk to Serena and then Jenny decides that she wants to go too. Nate is shown making a phone call to the front desk to figure out what room Serena’s family is staying in. Serena is shown walking down the Assignment One Lauren Ferrell street leaving Blair a voicemail that she thinks they should talk and that she’s on her way over. Blair deletes the message before listening to it.

15 mins: Gossip girl says “Looks like the table’s all set. As soon as the guests arrive, we can start dishing. Here’s what’s on the menu…” and it shows a couple of quick previews of scenes that will happen in the show. Serena is shown going through boxes trying to find shoes since she agreed she would go to brunch with her mom. Lily asks if she had fun at the concert last night and Serena tells her about how they never made it and they actually ended up going to the Kiss on the Lips party and how Blair wasn’t pleased that she showed up. It shows Serena getting into a cab just before Dan walks up to the hotel. He asks the man at the desk if Serena is in, and he tells him that he just missed her but he can wait. Dan asks if it will be that long and the guy replies with “Once she went out and didn’t come back for 6 months, but feel free to sit.” Then it shows Nate running into Lily asking if Serena is in. He says he’s going to wait on her to get back, and walks in and is told to sit with Dan who is also waiting on her. Dan tells Lily that he hopes she’s had a pleasant 21 hours since they last saw each other and Lily replies with, “Yes, it has been pleasant… until now. Gentlemen.” and then she smiles and leaves. Serena is shown starting in Blair’s and Blair says “I must have blanked on the part where I invited you over.” Serena talking about how spending Sunday mornings together has always been their tradition. Blair replies with “I have new traditions now.”

23 mins: Serena and Blair are sitting in Blair’s livingroom. Serena explains how she thought that everything was good between them. Blair tells her that they were before she found out that Serena had sex with her boyfriend. Serena asks how Blair found out. She says that Nate told her because he felt like he owed it to her . Serena explains how she didn’t know what to say. Blair tells her that she wouldn’t trust anything she says anyways, and “You know, I always knew you were a whore, but I never took you for a liar, too.” Serena wants to know how to fix things, and Blair tells her that she can’t and that she needs to just stay away. Gossip Girl comes on and says “Serena’s visit was short and apparently not very sweet. But you know what is? Revenge. We hear it’s best served cold. Who’s hungry?” Jenny shows up at Blair’s place. Blair asks her what she wants and Jenny says that she still had her calligraphy pens and figured she might want them back. Blair knows it’s just an excuse for Jenny to come over, and she knows that she wants to know what Chuck Bass is saying about her. Blair tells her that nobody is saying anything yet and tells her that she can help Blair get ready for brunch. Lily is shown getting out in Brooklyn to get coffee with Rufus. She wants him to tell Dan to stay away from Serena. Rufus wants to know if Lily is seeing someone. Lily ignores his questions and tries to keep on topic. Back at the hotel it shows Dan and Nate standing outside talking about how they both just want to talk to Serena. Chuck shows up and asks what Nate’s doing with Dan. Nate says he was waiting on Chuck and Chuck gets mad that Dan’s there. Nate pulls Chuck away to get into a car. Blair is trying on a blue dress but keeps trying on different dresses. Jenny tells Blair about Dan’s cabbage patch kids because she saw Blair’s. Blair puts together than Dan is Jenny’s brother and so she knows Serena. Blair offeres Jenny the blue dress so that she can use Jenny as one of her minions. Serena shows up at the hotel and Dan explains about how he is sorry about the wave and asks her if she’s hungry. Serena explains that she is and how she’s had a terrible morning. Lily shows up and talks about how she’s just in time for brunch. Serena Assignment One Lauren Ferrell says that she didn’t want to go to brunch but that she’s inviting Dan to brunch now. So they show up at brunch together and Blair sees them and says that it has to be a joke. Gossip Girl comes on and says “Looks like Blair and Chuck have quite an appetite… for destruction that is.”

30 mins: Jenny goes back home with the dress and Rufus asks where it came from. She tells him that it was a thank you gift from Blair for making the invitations. Dan and Serena are shown getting food at brunch and Nate gives Serena a gesture to go talk somewhere. Serena excuses herself to the bathroom and Nate leaves the room with her. Chuck’s father asks him if he’s okay and tells him that the invitation said black tie not black eye and tells him that he needs to stop making trouble and to stop drinking. Serena yells at Nate for telling Blair. Nate gives her a key to Chuck’s room to go talk to her. Nate’s dad is talking to Blair about investing in her mother’s company. Nate shows up and start to walk away and his dad grabs him and starts introducing him to a businessman about an internship. Chuck asks Blair if she’s worried about Nate and gives her a key to his suite to go sleep with him to seal the deal with Nate since Serena’s back. So Blair goes and grabs Nate and starts kissing him and they go into Chuck’s suite and they find Serena sitting there on the couch waiting. Gossip Girl comes on and says “Spotted-- N & B. Hot and heavy in the halls of the Palace hotel, only to find S. Already waiting. Sparks were flying for sure, but will it be a 3-way, or D-Day?”

Gossip Girl season 1 episode 3 Observation 3

5 mins: The flash backs from the last two episodes play, including: Dan and Nate both waiting on Serena, Lily talking to Rufus, Blair telling Serena that she knew what she did with Nate, Dan and Serena at brunch, Nate and blair walking in to find Serena, Chuck and Blair telling Dan about how Serena slept with Nate and then left New York, and Dan leaving brunch and Serena. It starts showing Nate, Blair, Chuck, and Serena getting ready, and Gossip Girl comes on with “There’s plenty of upside to being the spawn of the fabulously wealthy. But the downside? Super successful parents expect nothing less from their offsprings. And when it comes to college, that means the Ivies. It’s more than just getting into college, it’s setting a course for the rest of your life.” It shows Dan getting ready and she says “And for those few who aren’t legacies, the pressures are no less. When parents have sacrificed for their children’s futures, what kid would want to let them down?” It shows everyone sitting in a large room with people from the school talking about Ivy week and how important it is.

11 mins: Dan talked to his dad about how he doesn’t have a trust fund like all of the other kids to fall back on if he doesn’t get the scholarship to the school he wants to go to. Nate and Chuck are shown sneaking out of the assembly to go smoke. Then it shows Nate and his dad running. They finish running and start talking about how there are options but his dad tells him that there aren’t any other options than Dartmouth, Law school, Blair. Blair is shown talking about how perfect Yale is due to the fact that her dad went there. Serena is shown running into school late Assignment One Lauren Ferrell and missing the assembly because she slept over at Eric’s. She talks to her mom about going to Brown and her mom asks if she was even thinking about going to college. Serena runs into Dan and says “Please say it isn’t over.” and Dan replies with “You were there, I’d say it’s pretty over.” Because he thought she was talking about them. Dan realizes and wishes her good luck and leaves. Blair walks up and says “Awh, too bad you missed the assembly. Brown doesn’t offer degrees in slut.” Gossip Girl comes on and says “Spotted--S. Not so fashionably late and dressed down by B. Game on Ladies.” Serena and Blair are shown playing a sport in p.e. and Blair is shown pushing around Serena while she apologizes, but Blair doesn’t listen so Serena knocks Blair down and Blair acts like she got hurt and Serena is thrown out of the game. Gossip Girl says “Hey upper east siders. We hear that World War 3 just broke out, and it’s wearing knee socks. Choose your side or run and hide. We have a feeling this one’s to the death.”

15 mins: Dan is in his interview to be the Dartmouth usher. He’s talking about how his parents sacrificed everything and then he ends a question with a joke. Then the next question shows Nate answering that it’s not his first choice and that someone probably wants to be the usher more than he does. Chuck answers his question on why he should be an usher with, “I’m Chuck Bass.” The list with the usher positions are posted and Nate won the position of Dartmouth and Dan tells him that he wanted it and said “It makes sense because i’m second in our class and you’re somewhere around what, I don’t know, last?” And he asks Nate how many libraries his dad bought for him to get the position and tells him good luck with J. L. Hall, who is the Ivy representative for Dartmouth and Nate didn’t even know who he was. Dan suggests that Nate goes and buys his book if he wants anything to talk about. Serena and Dan run into each other and Serena asks how it went and Dan tells her about Nate. He also asks what schools her parents went to and she replies with Harvard and Brown. Chuck calls Blair back and Blair tells Chuck to find out why Serena came back. Chuck goes back to school to spy on Serena. Dan goes home and ignores his dad when he asks how it went and then ends up telling him the Nate got the position over him.

23 mins: Dan apologizes to Rufus for not getting it and how they sacrificed everything for him to go to school and then he asks to be left alone. Jenny explains how they’re not really important at school since they don’t have money like everyone else. Chuck is riding in his limo spying on Serena walking down the street and sees her walking into the Ostroff Treatment Center and he calls Blair to tell her. Nate and Blair are shown sitting together when Chuck calls her and Blair acts like it’s her mom calling her so that Nate doesn’t know. Then Chuck is shown showing pictures of Serena walking into the Ostroff center. Blair says that she’s going to destroy Serena socially. Serena is shown with Lily and Eric in one of his therapy sessions at Ostroff. She is talking about how nothing is going to change if her mom keeps hiding Eric there and won’t let him get his life back. Lily replies with how it’s called recovery, not hiding. Serena brings up how she is telling everyone that he’s staying in Miami with his Aunt Carol. Lily says that Eric isn’t ready but Serena replies with that maybe she isn’t ready. Eric says that he would really like to leave but he sees his mom’s reaction and adds that he might not be ready yet. Serena suggests that he is her date to the Ivy party tonight and he agrees that it’s a great idea. Lily leaves to go set up for the party. Rufus goes to the school to talk about how Dan should have been picked for the usher position and he is told to talk to the committee chairwoman, who turns Assignment One Lauren Ferrell out to be Lily. Rufus ends up getting Dan into the party as part of the refreshment committee since Rufus agreed to be the entertainment.

30 mins: Lily, Eric, and Serena are shown getting out of a limo with Lily telling him that if he starts getting nervous to tell her and they can leave, but Eric replies that he’ll be fine. It shows everyone at the party talking with people. Serena asks Lily if she sees the Yale rep. Lily wonders why because she thought Serena wanted to go to Brown and Blair wanted to go to Yale, and Serena says that she knows. Blair is then shown talking to the Yale rep about how her father would never forgive her if she didn’t introduce herself and that he said that they used to do crew together. Serena then shows up beside Blair and introduces herself and starts talking about how she didn’t know Blair was interested in crew or any athletics at all, especially ones where she might get her hair wet. Serena sees that the Yale rep’s glass is almost empty and offers to go with him to get another drink. Blair tries to jump in and say that she will take him but Serena says not for her to worry about it and walks away with him asking to tell her about Yale. Blair walks up to Chuck and gets mad that he isn’t with the Yale rep since he is his usher. Chuck says that he switched because he’s trying to get into Princeton. It shows a woman who is supposed to be the Princeton rep. Then Chuck tells Blair not to worry because of who just arrived. It shows a man walking in and Chuck explains that he is Dr. Ostroff. Gossip Girl comes on and says “Interesting choice of guests B. Coincidence? I think not.” Nate is shown telling the Dartmouth rep that he liked his book. The Dartmouth rep then starts asking him questions about it and he can tell that Nate didn’t really sound like he read the book. Bart is shown talking to Lily and asks Eric how Miami was. Eric excuses himself and goes into an empty room where Jenny shows up and starts talking to him. Nate’s dad walks through the room and asks him how Miami was. Jenny then gets curious and Eric tells her that it’s a long story and she says that she has time. Dan is talking to Serena about why she is with the Yale rep and she explains that it’s just something to do with Blair. Nate walks up and Serena tries to say hey to him but he ignores her. Serena leaves and Dan asks how the Dartmouth rep is. Nate said that he should just tell him that he only has everything because he’s an Archibald. Dan then gives Nate some tips on what he should say to him to help him out. Nate says he wants to get fresh air and tells Dan to take him the drinks and Dan and the Dartmouth rep start talking. Nate’s dad sees him leaving and grabs him and tells him to go back out but Nate tells him that he doesn’t want to go to Dartmouth. Eric is telling Jenny about how it was just him and his mom and he got really lonely and tried to kill himself and then he moved into the Ostroff Center. They go back out into the party as Blair is getting everyone’s attention. She talks about the Ostroff Center and how the school chose to honor the Ostroff Center. She explains how Serena is an addict and alcoholic and how the center has helped her become clean. So Serena gets up there to cover for Eric. Lily gets mad at Serena after and pulls her to the side to talk to her. Serena said she did it because she loves Eric and didn’t want anything to happen to her. Serena goes and finds Blair and asks her if they’re even. Blair tells her no because nothing will ever be worse than what Serena did and leaves. Dan runs after Serena and asks if she’s okay because he knows that she covered for her brother and that he’s always there if she wants to talk. It shows Eric telling Blair that it was actually him in the Ostroff Center because he tried to kill himself and that Serena protected him. He said that it must be a shock for her since she thinks she knows Assignment One Lauren Ferrell everything. Gossip Girl comes on and says “Another bomb lands in Blair’s lap. Will she use it as ammunition?”

Interview

1. What is your favorite element about the show? a. “It carries a strong social message and mixes a variety of plot twists to insure suspense.” 2. Since Serena is the main character, do you think she would be Gossip Girl? a. “No, I think it would be someone in the circle of friends, but not Serena.” 3. Who do you think Gossip Girl is? a. “I think that it would be a good plot if it turned out to be Dan, because nobody would suspect that.” 4. What would you compare this series to? a. “I would compare it to a soap like The Young and the Restless.” 5. Is this your favorite type of series? a. “No, I like puzzling, suspense, and mystery. However the show has some elements to it that I enjoy since it does relate to mystery and suspense.”

Analyze ❖ Everyone is always so attached to their phone and waiting for Gossip Girl to send out information ❖ Everything that Gossip Girl posts is believed to be true ❖ Lily wants to hide what Eric tried to do for her reputation ❖ Ivy week at their school was their most stressful week of school

❖ Gossip Girl’s impact on the highschoolers ❖ Cyber bullying inflicted by gossip Girl Assignment One Lauren Ferrell

❖ Bad parenting on Gossip Girl ❖ Ivy week & Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl has a lot of real life situations that it represents. Young people are always attached to their phones and social media websites. Bullying happens through these site just like they did in Gossip Girl. One thing would be said about someone, another would hear it, and then it would all be posted on social media within minutes. I think that things like that end up leading to cyber bullying because most of the time it’s the same people that’s getting talked about and the rumors just keep getting crazier when they weren’t true to begin with. Just like all of the reasons that were said as to why Serena came back to the Upper East Side. Some believed that she went away to have a baby because she was pregnant, others said it was because of drugs or something else. When she got back she found out that her brother was in a treatment center for trying to commit suicide, and their mother Lily was telling everyone that he was visiting his Aunt in Miami because she did not want everyone to think that she was such a bad parent that her daughter fled New York because of multiple reasons and her son tried to kill himself. Even when Eric would say he was ready to get back to his normal life, she still kept him there because she wasn’t ready to have everyone talking about if he really went to Miami or not. Also, during ‘Ivy Week’ at the private school, Constance, that they go to, it is considered the most stressful week of high school for them. I feel like that compares to the week that everyone takes the ACT or SAT your junior year of high school. however it is different because they get to meet all of the representatives from each Ivy week school since they all come from wealthy families. They get a head start on getting into the school when people with less money have a lot harder of a time getting in.

Chart Gossip Girl Netflix, 2012, The CW

Cyber Bullying spreading through technology TED Talk, Monica Lewinsky, March 2015

Parenting in the Age of Gossip Girl NPR, Nov. 10, 2009, Melissa Block & Michele Norris

Marwick, Alice E. and boyd, danah, September 12, 2011). SSRN The ! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics

Propose In the show Gossip Girl, it is all about telling secrets and spreading gossip about each other. The title says it all. Throughout the series lies get spread about characters that affects how they feel and how people think about them. I think that Gossip Girl was an example of cyber-bullying. Cyber-bullying is a real world problem that affects teenagers in this time and sometimes even leads to death. I feel like it is a really strong message being sent through the show about how gossip can completely destroy a person. I intend to use cyber-bullying as my research topic, and look into how much it actually affects teenagers and how many teens end up taking their own life or hurting themselves from it.