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-“the gang’s alleged mastermind,” according to the post; Diana Tamayo, 19; Courtney Ames, 18; Alexis Neirs, 18;Nicholas
Prugo, 18.” The Bling Ring, p.13
3.2 Nick Prugo
Nick Prugowas reported to be a shy and friendless teen prescribred Concerta for anxiety, who was tranferred to Indian Hills High School after being
expelled from Calabasas High School for excessive absences. Honestly,Nick won’t be joined with the bling ring member, but he feels
thatRachel the only one that understand him that’s the reason why Nick having crush with Rachel. He always follow what Rachel’s command so that Rachel
didn’t leave him.As can be proved in the following quotation : “He resented the way that Rachel was always in charge, no
matter what they did—he “hated that,” he said---but what could he do? This was “the girl [he] loved,” and he didn’t want to lose
her. And although he’d never tested it, there was something about Rachel that said that if you didn’t do what Rachel wanted,
she would walk away.” The Bling Ring, p.9
But in this recent time, mostly of teenager want to be looks like a cool kids because they won’t get bully and stayed away from others and absolutely they
won’t everyone in their surroundings looks them down. That’s why Nick does stealing by join in The Bling Ring, because he want looks deserve to be adapted in
Elite Surroundings. “But the glamour was what Nick wanted, too. And he knew that
Tess and Alexis could provide him with that by bringing him into nightlife. “They were the first people that brought me out to
clubs,” he said. “They brought me to Beso,”the celebrity hot spot on Hollywood Boulevard. “I started going out with them
started meeting people. Everyone loved me, everyone loved them. We started going out a lot to the hottest nightclubs,
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celebrity nightclubs---Voyeur, Wonderland, Teddy’s at the Roosevelt. They can get in anywhere because they’re so hot and
gorgeous and young and the celebrity guys love to have them at their table.” The Bling Ring, p.116
And then in America, mostly boys teenager being diagnosed with psychiatric conditions and it makes them were doing all kinds of troubling things.
It happens to Nick. That’s what makes Nick doing this criminal. He’s being diagnosed because that As can be proved in this following quotation :
“Even if it Prugo was the ringleader, what was he getting out of all this? My cop source asked. “Those kids stole women’s
clothes. It’s kind of a bizarre thing for a teenage boy to be doing.”But American boys were doing all kinds of troubling
things, I was learning, reading up on what was going on with kids. “It’s a bad time to be a boy in America.” The Bling Ring,
p.43
In The Bling Ring, Nick who is tasked with finding all the information about artists who wish they were after. He was getting across
the information through the internet. He is the who helped Rachel to realize her desire.
“Prugo was said to be thebling ring’s surveillancemeister, the one who found the celebrities’ addresses and pictures of their
homes on internet. TMZ, which was all over this storythey were calling the gang “the burglar bunch”, had posted a Google
Mpas search of Orlando Bloom’s home that prugo had allegedy done on a stolen computer; they were calling the image a
“smoking guy.” It was a bit of a mystery how TMZ was getting its hands on all these interesting things, but more on that later.”
The Bling Ring, p.16
Nick also has fallen in love with Rachel when she first met him. He felt that Rachel is different. He is not the same as others. Because of the poor, Nick
always in bulli and shunned by the people around him. But in contrast to Rachel,
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she always listen to Nick and accompany Nick. Thats why Nick fell in love with him.
“Rachel listened. “she really sympathizes with whatever your situation is,”Nick said. “she puts herself in there to understand
you, to feel your pain. She builts on that. She really knew where I was at and she knew how to comfort me and be a friend to me,
and I think that’s why I trusted her so much and why I got involved with her so much. The Bling Ring, p.39
3.3 Alexis Neiers
