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| Plot Summary of Perfect World |
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"Lacie Johnson's world turns topsy-turvy the year she enters high school. Her father committed suicide the previous year, and her mother now juggles two jobs in order to keep the family's cookie-cutter suburban home. Lacie likewise spends her non-school time caring for her younger brother (Malky) while struggling to make sense of her father's death, her mother's absence, and her own emerging sexuality.
As a result of these circumstances, Lacie becomes increasingly sensitive to the disparity between the way things appear and the way things are—but this precocious wisdom only overwhelms her further. The more things change, the more Lacie longs to return to the safe security of her perfect “ignorance-is-bliss” childhood. And the more Lacie realizes that it is impossible to do so, the more she depends on keeping her relationship with Jenna-— best-friend-since-fourth-grade-Jenna—-stable.
Unfortunately, not even childhood friendship is immune to adolescent turbulence. Jenna grows increasingly boy-crazy and manipulative, ditching Lacie for a boyfriend (Avery). Fatherless, motherless, and best-friendless, Lacie can't shake the feeling that she doesn't fit in anywhere.
As she searches for stability and compassion, Lacie unexpectedly falls in love with Avery's best friend (Benji) and forges a promising new friendship with a like-minded outsider (Gretchen). Ultimately, Lacie grows closer to herself by bonding with Benji and Gretchen. Having finally found a sliver of genuineness in a world of false appearances, Lacie learns that being true to one's self can make any world perfect.
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Tracie Amirante, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Perfect World |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Loss of...
- father
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Something wrong upstairs/downstairs?
- searching for identity/meaning
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- Dada gone
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 (an average amount)
United States
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- touching of anatomy
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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