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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
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Plot Summary of Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
"      Pledged tells the story of 4 college girls learning to survive in the tough world of sororites. They all attend sororites and the author follow them through one year of their college life. In which they go through many extreme situations. Three of the four girls are raped, many girls go out binge drinking. Along with the numerous drugs. They party and this book shows how sororitites are getting away with all the prejudice against others.
       The author starts the book by giving background on sororites and how they are run. It goes through the pledging system an how the girls are choosen. Girls are usually picked only if the other sisters like them. Based off looks, and if they are wearing the right clothing. For the pledges that the author follows they are often discriminated against and forced to do unpleasent activites against their will. This book goes inside what is like to be one of them.
       Often times the girls would go out paartying and "pre-gameing" a term used for drinking before the actual party. They experience drugs and piercing. They go on dates and cause fights. There is lots of drama and boyfriend troubles. "

Maggie Parkhurst, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - trouble in college - committing crimes - boozing - drugs
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - scholar
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Dumb
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
Misc setting - resort/hotel
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
Book makes you feel? - concerned
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - rape/molest (yeech!) - descript of kissing - impregnation/reproduction - lesbians!
Writer's slant towards subject: - neutral
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Is this a biography of several people? Yes
If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
Lot of titilating info about love life? Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book
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