BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help


P.S. Longer Letter Later Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin
About 14 pages (4,112 words)
P.S. Longer Letter Later Summary

Bookmark and Share Know this work well? Help others and get FREE products!

Literary Qualities

Biographical information written about Danziger and Martin reveals that their personalities are much like the personalities of the girls they portray. It appears that developing a voice to connect to their characters came easily for both writers, then the plot simply fell into place. The first-person narrative flows easily, and the authors have no problem creating strong voices that readers can easily distinguish. Perhaps because of the spontaneity of the character's interchange, they able to carry the plot and introduce the various plot twists effectively.

Suspension builds as the girls' letters get more serious and their lives and their friendship threaten to explode.

The spontaneous dialogue allows Danziger and Martin to develop a realistic account of a friendship between two adolescent girls.

The authors incorporate their individual styles to create two contrasting personalities,.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 525 words. This Short Guide contains 4,112 words (approx. 14 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Short Guide with our P.S. Longer Letter Later Access Pass.

Ask any question on P.S. Longer Letter Later and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Copyrights
P.S. Longer Letter Later from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy