Pryor has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and twenty years experience in professional and creative writing with special interest in fiction. In this essay, she examines the influence of the feminist movement on this novel, the many pressures placed upon the teens in Forever . . . , and how the story would be different if it were told in the early 2000s.
While Forever . . . could be briefly summarized as the tale of one teenager's first love affair and sexual experience, the story illustrates not just adolescent attitudes and difficulties with sex, but the pressures and problems they face in many other areas as well. The characters deal with these pressures in their own ways, making their own inevitable mistakes, though some mistakes have more serious consequences than others.
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