Struggles

Author's Note: I did the Sentence Frame Writing Strategy and wrote it on the story Pretty Little Secrets by Sara Sepherd. The book is the point of view of Hanna and it's about all the struggles that she is going through with her family and boyfriend.

In Pretty Little Secerts by Sara Sepherd Hanna is going through lots of struggles, she has to deal with lots of family issues at home and she has no one to be there for her and no one to talk to. She decides to go to the gym to try and find someone to talk to and her to take her mind off of the family problems. But then she finds a guy that she really likes and then it leads into more problems and drama and makes Hanna even worse than she was when she got there. The story is written in Hanna's point of view. From this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates sadness in the reader about Hanna having to deal with lots of family problems with her new step mom and step sister.

One way that Hanna's point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective describes Kate Hanna's step sister perfectly. From Hanna's point of view it shows that Kate is selfish and mean. When Hanna's dad married Kate's mom Hanna already didn't like her since she already knew her from school. When Kate moved into Hanna's house with her dad Kate tried her hardest to take Hanna's dad away from her and turned all his attention to Kate, causing lots of problems with Hanna. At the time Hanna was just trying to deal with a death of one of her best friends Allison and she also had to deal with a person that calls themselves "A" who tells everybody all her secrets  causing her problems at school and not having anyone there for her. Hanna relies on her dad to be there for her and protect her a time where she needs help but he isn't there since all his attention is on Kate. 

However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Kate if the novel was written in the point of view of Hanna's dad. For instance, the reader wouldn't think that Kate was a selfish and mean person they would think that she was a nice caring person. Hanna's dad only pays attention to Kate and doesn't even realize that he's not spending any attention to Hanna anymore. Hanna turns invisible to her dad and Kate's still there. Hanna's dad doesn't realize that Kate was bullying Hanna. Hanna's dad just thought that Hanna and Kate go along well and were best friends. But suddenly when he finally starts to notice that Hanna and Kate never talk and avoid each other even though Hanna's dad suggests that they should try to get along more Hanna doesn't. But when Hanna's dad finally starts to notice her more and pays attention to her Kate stops bullying her and decides that they should just try to get a long for there mom and dad.

As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to just see one side of a story or an event. In Pretty Little Secrets the narrator's prospective makes the reader feel bad for Hanna. Hanna's point of view was all about the struggles that she had to face along the way and how somebody can change. Hanna was a very strong character in the book having to deal with lots of family problems, but she just fought through them and eventually they got better.

Drama

There are always those couple girls that stand out that think there better than everyone else. That's exactly what happens in Pretty Little Liars and The Clique. There's that one group of best friends that stand out and make sure that they do in every way. In ways these two books are the same but they are also completely different. In The Clique the girls fight a lot and there mean to lots of other people at the school, there really only popular because of all the students at the school having a fear of them. The Pretty Little Liars is about how a group of girls that used to be friends but spread apart because one of the other girls in the group Ali went missing. About a year after there friend went missing they all started to get notes from a person named A, at first they thought that it was there friend;Ali, that came back. But when they realized that they were all getting notes from A they noticed that they could all help each other.

In The Clique there are 4 people they all rule the school, they have the best clothes and they go to the best school. They never let anybody else talk to them except for when Claire moves into Massie's guest house at first Massie was mean to Claire, she pulled a whole bunch of pranks on her to make her look like a freak but when Massie is forced to get to learn more about her she realizes that they could actually be friends. Massie invites Claire to join her and the rest of the girls at lunch. When they got to lunch the other girls were very surprised since Massie doesn't like making new friends but once they get to know Claire better they end up liking her too. 

The Clique does have a lot in common with Pretty Little Liars but it also has a lot that's different. In Pretty Little Liarsthere is 5 girls that used to be best friends but now that one of the girls went missing so now there's only 4 of them left they all split up. But when they all start to get mysterious notes from a person that calls themselves A they all start to question if there friend really is dead. They all get the notes but they don't know that there all getting them into later in the book. When they find out that there all getting the notes from A they all form back into there group of friends and start to search for A. They search and they finally find some possible suspects but there never right. While on there search on finding A there still getting the notes and the notes just keep getting worse and worse. It's really hard for them to find out who A is just by the notes and the small clues that they get. 

Some things that are the same are that in Pretty Little Liars there's a lot of drama involving the notes that they get and what they cause to happen at school and at home but there is also lots of drama in The Clique, there is lots of drama in the group of friends when Claire comes they were all mean to her but then when they get to know her better they realize that they could actually become friends. But there's still a problem the popular girls; Massie, Alicia, Kristen and Dylan don't like that Claire still hangs out with people other than them, they get jealous and make Claire try to only hang out with them, when they try that it just causes more drama with all of them and causes them all to turn on each other.