Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher

In this social cultural passage about women identities and their affected lives caused by interaction with family, friends, peers, and others etc..., Mary Pipher, writes about the up coming and involvements that young women encounter through their mere teen years. Now, I'm not a girl nor can I explain anything that a girl or young women goes through in the years that identifies who she becomes, but Pipher, However, reveals that the young teen girls are diverse into certain status, such as; popular, rejected, strong, and weakling-corrupted. In the passage, the strong girl is the one that can over look certain situations and drives for an independence for herself.  The strong ones are not just genuinely strong but rather indirect, the ways to find a sense of strong hold or direction is through some family, friends, or even books or sports. The other category of girls either find a way out of the conceited attitude, or unfortunately vanish through life with ignorance and no stable abilities to help themselves. Pipher, uses one of her clinical patients, June, as a motivating drive for women with the obstacles of being rejected, not having hope, or feeling self conscious of themselves. In this part of the passage , June, speaks of the troubles that fazed with her dad and High school peers in. June, is a great person and the fact that she took in her mothers love to be an inspiration and a focus to look beyond judgment and neglect.