In all stories cool was one of two things,and sometimes both. The main character was either cool in a very superficial way (fashion, wealth, looks, etc.) or the character was cool because he/she played the role of the nice guy/girl. Of course there were many variations of this but essentially all the stories came down to one of the two. I also read alot of stories about kids who are extremely self concious on the inside and try extremely hard to not show it and succede and therefore are considered cool.
Some of the archtypes in the stories I read were: The jock(basketball player), The popular pretty girl, and the jerk. One of the theme that I noticed were in almost all of the stories was a sense of secretism. Almost all the characters has issues with themselves or with other people outside their group of immidiate friends or the people they act cool in front of. They also hid these problems from the people who viewed them as cool. I guess one thing people were trying to portray was that people who try to act cool(which i guess is everyone) have more problems then you think and are much more complicated than what you see although they don't show it. All the stories were the typical ideas of what is viewed as cool in our society.
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