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Plot Summary of Shades of Gray
"Nate meets Katie and wants to sleep with her. Katie wants to sleep with Steve, who is religious. Scott gets Steve drunk and Steve has sex with Katie, who sleeps with Nate, who in turn has sex with Scott. After that, Steve gets involved in drugs and the book ends with a miscarriage, a suicide, a move to Hollywood and a whole lot more. "
Ashley Benser, Resident Scholar


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Review Analysis of Shades of Gray
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Plot
Tone of book? - depressed
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - love triangle/polygon - seduction (yum!) - boatload of casual sex without love
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Druggie/Wino problems? - drugs

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 (a little)
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast - West - Northeast - Midwest - California

Style
Person - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - orgies - impregnation/reproduction - lesbians! - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's) - descript. of female anat. (the big V) - descript. of nude males (the big P) - male homosexuals doing their thing - rape/molest (yeech!)
Lot of foul language? Yes
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words - a lot of flashback and forwards - a lot of stream of consciousness - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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