I began watching Desperate Housewives much later than the four girls in my graduating class who were downright obsessed; every week, in the halls or the lunch room, you would hear them either raving incredulously about the plot twist of the new episode from the…

The story that Cannie tells on pages 52 through 60 about how she had come to write a column about weddings and their brides for a local newspaper helps give the reader a deeper understanding of Cannie’s longing to find answers about love and marriage.…

“But Lucy Audley would not make war. She carried forward the sum of her dislike, and put it out at a steady rate of interest, until the breach between her step-daughter and herself widening a little every day, became a great gulf utterly impassable by…

The dictionary definition of “melodrama” is “a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.” This mostly aligns with my pre-conceived notions of the term, although I’ve rarely heard the term used in real life. I’ve mostly heard…

The first paragraph of Lady Audley’s Secret sets up the novel as one that deals with the power of wealth. The first paragraph introduces Audley Court as a pleasant and pretty place, not intimidating like one would expect an old, wealthy estate to be. The…

In the article “Young Adult Literature: Let It Be Hope” by Kristen Randle, Randle argues that it has become common today for young adult novels to be too “bleak,” with story lines that only focus on the negative reality of the world “in order to…

As a young adult novel, I think that John Green aimed for The Fault in Our Stars to be mostly realistic so that it would more easily appeal to the target audience of young adults who, like the main characters in this book, are also navigating…