Timeline:
- Megan Meier was teased about her weight in seventh grade. She also tried desperately the acceptance of the popular girls.
- Megan and Lori Drew´s daughter became best friends.
- Ms. Drew takes Megan on family vacation. She also knows that Megan takes antidepressant medications and that she had a MySpace page
- Megan was transferred to Immaculate Conception at the beginning of eighth grade.
- She no longer wanted to be friends with Lori Drew´s daughter.
- Found a new group of friends, lost weight and played volleyball.
- Ms. Drew creates a profile on MySpace with the name “josh Evans” and begins to flirt online with Megan.
- Three months later “he” insults her and tells her that the world would be a better place without her.
- Other people also send mean messages to Megan.
- Megan commits suicide
- Six weeks later the parents learnt that Josh Evans never existed and that it had been created by Lori Drew.
“Explain why Ms Drew wanted to “mess with” Megan” + Summary
Megan Meier was found dead in her closet after she commits suicide because of an online crush, Josh Evans, who said mean things to her.
The weird thing is that Josh Evans does not exist. He is a fictional character created by Lori Drew, the mother of Megan´s ex best friend.
Megan became best friends with Lori Drew´s daughter when she was in seventh grade. She was bullied because of her weight and wanted to join the popular group from school. Her parents transferred her at the beginning of the eight grade to another school and Megan told her best friends that she does not want to be friends anymore. Megan lost weight and became friends with other people.
Then she met Josh Evans, a 16 year old boy, over the internet and fell in love with him. After three months of online-flirting he told her that the world would be a better place without her. She commits suicide. Megan took antidepressant and Lori Drew, who created Josh Evans, knew that.
Lori Drew wanted to mess with Megan, because Megan did not wanted to be friends with Lori´s daughter anymore. The Drew´s family had taken Megan´s family on vacations, so I think that Lori was very disappointed and angry with Megan. She may have thought that Megan only was her daughter´s friend because they invited them on vacations. So Lori wanted to take revenge by playing with Megan´s feeling. I do not think that Lori expected that end, but it is very childish and immature of her for doing that action.
