Pretty Little Liars: Critical Thinking Question #2

this book shows what girls go through in middle and high school to fit it, and peer pressure. in the book Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna are all pressured to do things they don't want to by Alison, just so they can fit in. they don't know how to say no to Alison, they worship her. but at the same time they hate her. i think that in this text Alison's point of view is missing. all the others girls point of view is included except hers, she talks in the book and does things. but we don't really get to see the world through her eyes. 

the effect that this has is that we see Alison as kind of a "bully" and a stubborn brat. the girls are always saying how she is flirting with her sisters boyfriend and she wants everything perfect and her way. since Alison's voice is excluded we don't get to know why she really acts this way. maybe she has low self-esteem and just wants to cover it up. maybe she hasn't ever had a real friend so she thinks that this is the way to treat them, to make sure that they never have the courage to leave her.

since Alison's perspective is excluded all the other girls stand out more. so we focus in on them and what they are saying , and since they are all saying negative  and mean things about Alison. it leads us into thinking that they are right and that she really is this person.

i think that if Alison's point of view was present then the girls would be overshadowed because we would get to know who the true Alison is, then we wouldn't care what the other girls would have to say. we wouldn't have to rely  on their words to try and see what kind of person Alison was. i think that the reason the author did this was to keep the reader guessing throughout the whole book, so they would just want to keep reading. is the author put in Alison's perspective then it would be boring because we have nothing to infer, since we know everything already.

Some Girls Are: Critical Thinking Question #2 *SPOILER ALERT*

the book Some Girls Are by Courtney Summer is a story about  typical high issues but 10 times worse. there is a group called the fearsome five made up by five girls: Anna, Kara, Marta, Jeanette, and Regina. Anna is the leader and a complete snob, and the rest of the girls are like her slaves who do all the dirty work for her. they hate each other and compete for who Anna will like the most. at a party Anna's boyfriend Donnie tries to rape Regina and Kara tells Anna and the whole school that she actually slept with him. 

from that point on they make her life miserable. by the end of the book they leave her alone but only because they are threatened to get suspended. i think that in this story justice is not served.  i think that what would have happened for justice to have happened is a social change would have had to occur. many people would have stood up to Anna and told the principal and not just stand there and watch all this happen.

i think that Regina and the students block justice. Regina could have told the principal or her mom and have  made it all better, or the students could have rallied together and stopped the girls. i think that the reason the students didn't do it is because when Regina was part of the group she had bulled them and that made them hate her so they wanted her to go through what she did.