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Pretty Little Liars
Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret
Alison: Manipulative and Vindictive. She's the 'Queen Bee' of the group and rules with an iron fist. Spencer: A perfectionist and is always trying to outdo her overachieving sister. Falls for her sister's boyfriend which ends up ruining their relationship. Aria: A former outsider who later on has an affair with her English teacher. Emily: A competitive swimmer and out of all the girls is the most protective of Alison. She's in love with the new girl at school. Hanna: Struggles with a weight problem and has a eating disorder. Desperately wants to be popular so she does nearly anything Alison says.
characters
Pretty Little Liars is the story of 4 teen girls, Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna whose world gets turned upside down when their leader goes missing. The book begins a year after Alison's disappearance when Aria comes back from studying abroad in Iceland and the other 3 had drifted apart. When Aria returns, Alison's body is finally found and the four girls start to receive creepy text messages from untraceable numbers. The texts are signed as 'A'. These texts indicate that she knows everything about the girls which is dangerous since each one has a deep secret that they don't want exposed. But the liars have a collective secret: They were involved in a explosive accident that left one of their peers blind... except no one knows it but them. Throughout the book, 'A' continues to taunt the girls with revealing personal information that only Alison would know... or at least they thought. The book ends with a private funeral for Alison in order to try and find some type of closure.
plot
I know everything about the bad girls they were, the naughty girls they are, and all the dirty secrets they've kept. And guess what? I'm telling. - A
Theme: Forbidden love
Aria falls for a great guy, but he turns out to be her teacher. Spencer has the bad habit of falling for her sister’s boyfriend, but when she finally gets a guy of her own, her mom disapproves. Hanna’s ex-boyfriend makes her feel bad about herself, and her new crush is a geek—which would destroy her reputation if she dated him. Emily’s in love with her next door neighbor, Maya, though she knows her parents would be angry about the same-sex relationship. Aria’s dad had an affair with a student, and when Aria’s mom learns about it, she leaves him.
Motif: Text Messaging
Text messaging is A’s primary method of communication. A texts threatening messages to the liars so frequently that you can expect a cryptic text anytime the investigation of Ali’s murder comes up, and anytime the liars do something they shouldn’t or hide a secret.
Symbol: Alison's Memorial
The liars have a memorial to Ali made after her body is found. The memorial has five statues on it, each representing one of the girls. The memorial itself symbolizes both closure and control for the pretty little liars. They want to put Alison’s death and the trouble with the mysterious A that resulted behind them, and the memorial is a physical symbol of this healthy step.
