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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Author: Ann Brashares
 

Carmen, Tabitha,Lena, and Bridget.
This book is in Third Person Omniscient

This story mainly takes place in Bethesda, Maryland, but in this newsletter I am following Bridget, who is mainly in Baja California, Mexico. 

Plot Line:
Exposition: The girls find a pair of jeans that fit all of them.
Rising Action:

  • Each of the girls are heading off to different places.
  • Bridget goes to Baja California, Mexico for a soccer camp.
  • She meets a soccer coach named Eric.
  • Bee wants to get to know him better and wants him for herself.
  • One night she sneaks out of her cabin and into town to a club where Eric was.
  • Dances with him all night.
Climax: Bee loses her virginity to Eric
Falling Action:
  •  Bee feels empty and listless.She says like that for the rest of camp, and some of her time home.
  • Her depression is taken away by Carmen and Tibby , who came over the day she got home to cheer her up.
  • The next day, Bridget's dog, Maggie runs off with the Traveling Pants.
  • Bee follows her to get them back,only to run into Eric. Who visits on his way home.
Resolution: Bee and Eric decide to remain friends and that she should give him a chance when she is 20.

 

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Conflict: Person vs. Person
Bridget wants Eric, who is a soccer coach at the camp she attends.

Characters:
Lena - a greek girl, who is very shy and enjoys art.

Tabitha - rebellious daughter, who is extermely interested in filmaking.

Bridget - energetic, althletic soccer player, who is described to be single minded to the point of recklessness.

Carmen - sensitve, caring, and dramatic, with explosive temper. also determine to keep the girls together. 

Quotes:

"There was guys at soccer camp, as it turned out. There was one guy. No, there was more than one guy, but for Bridget, at that moment, there was one guy."

 "Please let me be on his team, Bridget silently begged"

 "Her legs were long, and she carried no extra weight. It made her a naturally good runner, even when she was out of practice."

 "The thought made her laugh and ache for her friends at the same time. It really was like having a bit of Lena, Carmen, and Tibby here."

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Theme:Thinking you want something and actually wanting it when you have it isn't the same.

 

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Theme: Sometimes when it all falls down is the closure of having you closest friends around. 

Recommendations:

I would rate this book a 4 out of 5. This book is personally a good book for anyone mainly for teenage girls. Because the girls in this book are around those ages and go through normal stuff that an average teenage girl would go through. This book can also show you the real meaning of friendship.


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