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3. THE DESCRIPTION OF BLING’S FRUSTRATION
The experiences of The Bling’s members pictured in the plot can be stated as follow :
3.1 Rachel Lee
Rachel Lee is the woman who obessed with branded clothes. The ringleader of the group, Lee lived in Calabasas with her mother. Lee and her older
sister had a privileged unbringing, and she drove a white Audi A4 to school To satisfy her desire, she decided to made an easy way like stealing . So,
she made a gang of fame-obsessed. It names The Bling Ring. She has 4 members in her group. There are Nick Prugo, Diana Tamayo, Alexis Neiers, and Courtney
Ames. The purpose of the bling ring is to follow lifestyle and hollywood
celebrities and reaching their desire, they do something criminal, which is stealing branded stuff belonging to the artist Hollywood.
There are the steps how The Bling stealing the selebrity’s stuff : 1
They are looking the information of celebrity on internet from TMZ.com. TMZ is one of website on internet that giving all about information of
Hollywood celebrity. 2
They are spy the location they want to steal. 3
They note when the security were patrolled around celebrity’s mansion and when the mansion not occupied by pretending that they come with wrong
address. 4
They are guessing where a celebrity put their key to opened their mansion.
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5 They look into every single room to know where celebrity’s stuff.
Starting from two teenagers that has plane to do bulglar crime at first time for them. They were a girl and a boy, 18 and 17, who lived not far away in
Calabasas, an affluent suburd in the Valley, Nick and Rachel. The reason they come to Paris’s House because Rachel Lee is really to take Paris Clothes.
“Rachel was obsessed with fashion, Nick said, she was obsessed with clothes; that was why they were going to Paris’s house that
night, because Rachel wanted Paris’s clothes” The Bling Ring, p.4
Lifestyle is a way of living of individuals, families households, and societies, which they manifest in coping with their physical, psychological, social,
and economic environments on a day-to-day basis.Each person has their lifestyle, including all members of The Bling Ring, but Rachel is the one who the most
obsessed with luxury lifestyle which makes her being the gangs alleged mastermind.
“When I got a chance to talk to Nick Prugo and asked him why he thought Rachel Lee was so obsessed with their famous
victims that she would steal their clothes, he said,”I think she just wanted to be part of the lifestyle. Like, the lifestyle that
everybody kind of wants.” The Bling Ring, p.33
After they succeed in their first stealing, they have desire to do it again with all the member of the bling ring. The members that join in the second
robbing are Diana Tamayo, Courtney Ames, Alexis Neiers, Nicholas Prugo and they become addicted to robbing over and over again. It can be proved in this
following quotation : “News of the kids, so far, didn’t offer many details, and no
interviews with the suspects themselves. The five who had been arrested in connection with the burglaries were Rachel Lee, 19--
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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
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