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about 20,000. The characteristic that was showed by Ava in Material Girls movie described the white people character generally. Ava has
represented the white people generally in Material Girls movie.
d. Materialists
The character of Ava is beside emotional Ava also the person who has a materialistic character. Materialistic person is the person who really
happy with a luxurious things. The writer describes that Ava is a materialistic person, this is because she got a ring from Mic, she was
really happy. It can be seen from this quotation below:
Ava : it is huge. How romantic is he? Look at that He has such
great taste.
Tanzie
: Ava, you picked that out
Ava
: well, yeah, but he likes it.
Tanzie : do you like it.
Ava : oh, yes.
Material Girls 00:23:44, 67-- 024:48
From the quotation above we can conclude that Ava was very happy when she knows that Mic sends the diamonds ring, so that she adores Mic.
What Ava did is described the character of materialistic person. Basically white people are sleazy about luxurious things. It can be seen from Ava’s
character which represents the character of white people.
e. Careless
The character of Ava and Tanzie in Material Girls movie categorized as a careless person. This is because they can easily give their
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car to the person that they claimed a Valet, whereas they really don’t know the person before. What they did, can be seen from the quotation
below:
Man
: Hello, ladies. Let me help you with that
Tanzie
: Thanks. The keys are inside, okay? Just try to be careful.
Man
: Thank you. Let’s go man, now.
Material Girls.00:27:36,488 -- 00:27:38,080
From the quotation and the picture above can be seen that Ava and Tanzie are careless person. This is because, when they wanted to sleep in
Inez house, they give the car easily to the person whom they didn’t know. Their act can be called as doing careless.
f. Romantic
In this film the character of Ava described as a character which always makes surprised to another people, it makes Ava considered has a
special in herself. She always gives praise to interlocutor, and she is welcome with the praise which is given by other people. Ava shows white
people who have sense of romantic. It can be seen in this dialog below:
Henry
: hey sexy.
Ava : hey counselor. Did I ever tell you? You look so great in
men’s warehouse?
Henry
: come on, it’s Nordstrom’s, sales rack.
Material Girls 01:30:37,331 -- 01:30:39,993
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From the dialog between Ava and Hendry we can see that how Ava adore, Ava tries to say that clothes that he worn is very suitable. Here, we
can see that the Ava’s romantic sense makes Henry feels happy. In this movie, she knows how to make another person happy with her words and
her acts. It indicates that the character of Ava has a romantic sense. So, the character of Ava can be called as a representative of white people who
have romantic sense.
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