You *clearly* have no clue why people join up in the gothic subculture. Christ...they don't wear black to be invisible or blend in. They want to be different from the rest of society. And they usually are very intellectual and artistic.

As far as preps, I don't believe in preps anymore. Traditionally, a prep was someone who never got in trouble and had good grades. A teacher's pet...traditionally.

Amusing take on the subject; interesting psychology angle with clothing colors. You are using stereotypes when you say people who wear black don't like to talk much or people who dress in lots of color are charismatic.

GOOD JOB!

You have some humorous figurative language, but that does not make an essay satirical. Satire by definition hold a human vice or folly up for scorn or ridicule, but your essay does little in the way of scorn or ridiculing and less in the way of emphsizing a human vice or folly.

As a comparison essay, this works well, but you show more similar aspects to have a greater "compare" section.

All in all, a good paper, if a bit verbose in places.

yarr... clicques (whatever the spelling is) are a somewhat outmoded way of divvying up the student population. Outward appearance is the major identifier but "under" that you can really only divide the group by stereotypes within groups. IE every Goth and Prep clan have their slackers and nerdlingers. That said Goths and Preps do their best to convince themselves that they are more than what you paint them as (black lipstick or a subscription to Teen People) and I would suggest that they are correct to some extent, usually what they associate with the term is an outlook with the clothing that they feel suits them (Goths) or stamped onto them by pop culture. So whilst they are both books, i wouldn't say they are the same edition or in the same section of the library. One is on the magazine rack and the other is trying very hard to pass of as adult horror.