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| Plot Summary of Prep |
"Lee Fiora decided to leave her family loving home from South Bend, Indiana to go to a prestigious private boarding school in Massachusetts. Being a scholarship student, Lee tries to adjust to the preppy surroundings of the Ault School. There are girls with their collars up carrying lacrosse sticks and boys who are good at every sport and even excel in school. Lee, not being as smart or as atheltic as them, observes these events. She draws more attention to other loners who haven't found a way to fit in yet. Still, she continues to observe all the other students, admiring their rich status and new activities.
Lee eventually participates in their school routines and even meets the most popular boy in school, who doesn't exactly become her boyfriend. Conflicts and arguments flare up when her parents visit and this whole social status thing takes a different turn. By senior year, Lee has finally established a place for herself at the Ault School but only to make a public blunder that has everyone in school talking about her. "
Molly, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Prep |
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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
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- boarding school! (wack wack!)
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- almost none
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 (a significant amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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