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One of narrative features or characteristics most immediately
brought to mind in concern to Someone Like You, as well as various of
the other Dessen novels, is that exceptionality of the situational
realism that Dessen manages to integrate into her narratives. Primarily
first person narratives, Dessen has been invariably known for
comprising stories that adolescent and teen girls tend to relate to
upon the pretext of most of her plots being derived from real life
situations.
Take into consideration, for instance, the case ‘Someone like you’,
a story based around the lives of two young girls, Halley and Scarlett,
who have been the best of friends for years, sharing secrets, clothes,
and crushes. And while Scarlett is the one who society initially views
as the typical extrovert, Dessen skillfully relates a deterioration of
this in order to emphasize the extent of her later demise.
Dessen employs the shift of balance from Scarlett to Halley, as a
result of the formers discovery that she is pregnant with the child her
now-dead boyfriend, order to build upon the significantly debilitative
impact that the discovery (of her pregnancy) has upon Scarlett as a
result of her upbringing and society.
And while this plot quite sufficiently illustrates the turbulence so
common to adolescence and post-adolescence, Dessen simultaneously uses
Halley’s character and predicament (s) to highlight some of the more
typical issues that girls of the age tend to encounter within their
social parameters. Adolescent girls will readily identify with Halley
and will appreciate the book's honest explication of the things they
really want to know.
It would be conclusively apt, moreover, to acknowledge that,
speaking from a literary point of view, it is apparent that Dessen has
attained a degree of literary efficacy that is especially effectual as
a result of its ideological borrowings from within the fabric of
contemporary society.
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