Fantasy Theme

The leading female character, Josie, who has the second chance to experience high school, what she wants to be and how she is going to do for not being regret since she has been through high school once? Josie chooses apparent hypocrisy from Elkind (1967) argument of egocentrism adolescence. Apparent hypocrisy (Elkind, 1967) occurs when teenagers appears to say one thing and do another. For example, Josie wants to cross over from unpopular to coolest because of her undercover reporting project to find out nowadays what high school popular culture is and what youths think about. However, in the reality people, especially teens, what to be apparent hypocrisy because it is easy to be around a target group that they want to be familiar with.
The leading character, Josie, also is satisfied most of people’s fantasy that if there the second chance, I will make it better. According to Bormann (Foss, 2004), fantasy theme is a method used by groups to intensify the group dynamic based on a communication that allows information sharing regarding issues relating to the group. Therefore, when a group comes together, attention must be paid to the group's social climate. As the theory suggests, this leads to a more productive group that not only achieves cohesion socially, but also productivity is heightened. This cohesion is gained by the group willingness to discuss outside issues and situations to give the group a sense of comfort and certainty about the other group members. There are two facts of fantasy theme analysis appeared in Never Been Kissed (1999). First, fantasy theme effects egocentrism adolescence from Hollywood movie. Second, fantasy theme gives another chance to people to have a better result when they meet the same circumstance again.