Punk for a Month

Connecting with cultural values and student's lives.
Questions to the text 1, 2, 3 and 4

1.- What does appearance  indicates about a person? In what ways may appearances be misleading? When is it appropriate to judge people based on appearances? When is it inappropriate?

-I believe that appearance shows what the people thinks or wants to express. Appearances may be misleading when we stereotype a person. People belonging to a group may have similar qualities but they'll never think the same and feel equal. That's why prejudging a person just about how he/she looks may give a wrong idea based on stereotypes.

2.- Is Julie fair to her old friends in the change she makes? How might she have handled the change differently so as not to alienate her friends?

- Well, I believe the decision that Julie has taken helped her to realise who her true friends were. She doesn't change from one day to another and became another person, but her friends can't understand and accept it.
                             "No. She's not the same person..."

3.- Julie makes new friends once she changes her appearance. What problems can you predict with these new friends?

-I'm almost completely sure that she'll fight or have troubles with her new friends once the "punk month" ends and they realise she didn't really meant to be a punk. I would feel betrayed.
Another important aspect that may occur with these new friends is getting Julie in troubles, because their lifestyle is different from what she was used to (parties, alcohol, maybe drugs), but we must not fall into prejudice.

4.- Does Julie change internally as a result of changing externally? Can simply dressing differently influence a person's character? Why, or why not?

-I believe that how you dress doesn't change who you really are. The only thing that changed was that Julie felt free to express what she has always felt and thought. Cloth express our personality, and gives a quick image of who we are. ex: dressing black when someone dies shows pain, sorrow..