Character

     One of the characters in The List is Jennifer. She was put on the list as the ugliest. She has been the ugliest all four years of high school for being overweight. Before high school started she only had one true friend and that true friend was Margo. Margo was elected as the prettiest girl in senior class as Jennifer was voted ugliest. Margo stopped hanging out with Jennifer because she was too needy for her liking and didn't fit in with any of her friends. Jennifer was left all alone with no one to hang out with. She was voted the ugliest freshman year and she had a major break down. For example the book states, "Jennifer had sunk to the floor in front of her locker and bawled unabashedly until her entire face was shellacked with the mixture of tears, snot, and sweat. The list, damp and twisted in her fists, was reduced to soggy pulp. Blood vessels burst in her cheeks and in the whites of her eyes. She'd barely survived the worst summer of her life, and now this? The freshman collectively backed up and gawked in horror, the way one might upon seeing a dead body. Except Jeniifer was very much alive. A gasp for breath turned into a choke, and then she vommited on herself." Throughout the years she starts to get over it. The student body was surprised when she started cheering and jumping up and down when she was nominated for the fourth year in a row. Something has changed with Margo's best friends this time though. Them being the popular girls in school, they talk to Jennifer and invite her to hang out with them. Jennifer obviously accepts quickly so they don't change their minds. Margo is frustrated that her friends invited her to go to homecoming so she makes an excuse to cancel it. Little did she know Jennifer told them she could drive and Margo was left in the dust. Jennifer has changed because now she is willing to make friends with any one and she's not afraid to talk to Margo anymore. Jennifer advances the plot because now Margo will try to get her friends back without Jennifer being a part of her group. If she fails then Margo won't have friends since she's being a bully.
  http://www.obesityaction.org/educational-resources/resource-articles-2/childhood-obesity-resource-articles/bullying-bullycide-and-childhood-obesity

     This article relates to Jennifer's teasing because of weight. It most commonly occurs during high school for girls and that's exactly what has happened to her. In middle school she was also rejected by Margo because she was overweight and uncool. Many people have the same story as Jennifer does.