~ENGLISH STANDARDS~

(RL) 3. Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or a drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters/archetypes are introduced and developed).

              In the story Pretty Girl-13 by Liz Coley, the author sets the mood as very suspenseful and mysterious. In the beginning of the story, it talks about a young girl who had been missing for years and out of no where finds her way back home. The way the author introduces the characters is very smart because it's in order by the character's importance. The first characters introduced were the young girl and her kidnapper. The way the author makes the mood suspenseful is she doesn't tell us who the kidnapper is or where he is from. Another way, the author makes the mood suspenseful is she says the girl had lost her memory, so she doesn't remember anything that happened after being kidnapped. The author makes the story relate able because the young girl is a teenager close to the same age as me. This helps me understand how the girl feels. Overall, the author's way of developing the story makes me really intrigued and interested to continue reading.