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| Plot Summary of Junk |
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"A teenage girl, Gemma, living in England in the '80s is bored with her life and hates her parents so she decides to run away with her boyfriend to the city of Bristol. They befriend two heroine addicts and eventually become addicts themselves. They live in squats and steal and prostitute themselves to survive. "
, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Junk |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- boatload of casual sex without love
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- struggling to earn a living to survive
Poverty, surviving
Yes
Kind of living:
- general poverty story
- making "Ends Meat" by prostitution
Family, struggle with
Yes
Struggle with:
- all of family
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- college
Something wrong upstairs/downstairs?
- searching for identity/meaning
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- parental abuse
Wild kid(s)?
- druggie culture (& crime)
Lover is
- a criminal (possibly)
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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