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"This book has a 13 year old girl who was molested by a mentally sick person. She was desperately searching for social and emotional explanations and answers to her life. She has had so many problems in her past life and does not know what to do and how to recover. A search for hope and dignity. "
Tiffany, Resident Scholar
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"the past affects the future and all aspects of our lives weave character. delores learns that fantasy has no happiness in it and goes through many tests such as being raped, going to college, and loosing her mother before she finds happiness with herself."
crystal mace, Resident Scholar
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"As a young teenager, Dolores was raped by her neighbor. She isolates and eats in order to cope. By the time she graduates high school, she weighs over 250 pounds and is miserable. After a failed attempt at going to college, Dolores ends up in a mental institution, where she learns how to cope somewhat with the outside world...but it is her experiences after leaving the institution that really allow her to become a full person."
Beth Hoffman, Resident Scholar
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"Dolores Price is a young girl who must cope with her parents' bad marriage, her mother's breakdown, and a move to her grandmother's house. Dolores is already unpopular at school, bullied by girls in her class and barely able to cope with her difficult grandmother. Her problems only increase when handsome Jack Spreight and his wife move into the apartment her grandmother rents. When Dolores faces even greater tragedy, she retreats into television watching and overeating. Her relationship with her grandmother and mother worsen as college entrance approaches. Afraid of the world and of what others think of her 257 lb. frame body, Dolores tries to get through bad relationships and worse depressions in any way she can – through television, through hard work, and even through lies. As Dolores comes to learn about herself and about the motives behind other peoples' cruelty, she finds that happiness comes from an unexpected source."
A. Antonow, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Family, struggle with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Grandma
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- fatness/blubber
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- mother
Battle with a psychiatrist
Yes
Brain/Body disability?
- mental illness
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
- quite fatty
Main Adversary
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- lesbians!
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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