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Plot Summary of The Gift
"A family is devastated after the loss of a cherished young child. Their life is torn apart and they are unable to repair the damage. When a young girl enters their life and helps them heal. She gives to this family the greatest gift of love."
Nancy Guler, Resident Scholar

"The story is about a young girl who has sex for the first time. She then ends up pregnant. Her parents where not pleased with this. They sent her off to a place where girls went to hide there pregnancy, but little did they know she went else where. She got a job as a waitress. She ends up giving the baby to another family."
crystal lamke, Resident Scholar

"A girl has sex with a boy, and accidentally gets pregnant. Then, her dad sends her away to a place to have the baby. She doesn't like it there, and runs away. She meets this boy named Tommy. They fall in love, and a few times, they come very close to having sex. He finds out she's pregnant. He tries to help her with the baby, and falls even more in love with her. She wants to put it up for adotption, but he doesn't want her to. He wants to marry her, but she wants to wait. "
Danielle, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Gift
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1900-1920's
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Children/Pregnancy: - Get accidently pregnant

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - student
Age/status: - a teen
How sexual is this person? - squeaky clean virgin
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - mature - sensitive
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - a teen
Profession/status: - student
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
effect of sexing - unhappy for sexing the guy
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - mature
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest
City? Yes
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee

Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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