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Title: What Would Emma Do? Author: Publication Info: Simon Pulse December 2008 ISBN: Genre: What Would Emma Do is a smart, unblinking mixture of “The Crucible” meets “Saved,” with one of the most memorable YA narrators I’ve met in awhile.

However, it’s not a romance, so I’m not evaluating it as such. More on that in a moment.

Emma is the only daughter of a single mom in a small Illinois Indiana* town named Wheaton, which is situated exactly in the middle of rural nowhere. Emma really, really hates living there. Her goal is a track scholarship to Northwestern, and she’s not secret about her goals, or her intense dislike of every aspect of her town. She thinks of it as her mom’s hometown, not her own, and is repulsed by the eagerness with which her mom and her friends and all the adults in her life embrace the town’s social culture, which, to Emma, involves being way to involved in everyone else’s business, and being as limited of mind as possible. * I mistakenly placed the town in Illinois, and the error was totally mine. My apologies to Ms. Emma is out one night with her best friend’s boyfriend, Colin, whom she’s known since early early childhood.

After a surprise kiss a few weeks prior, their friendship isn’t yet back to normal, but she’s trying to make it so. When she and Colin sneak out to go to a local hangout – as friends, not to get it on or anything – they find two the popular girls in the middle of a bit of a bender, but the next morning, the story is totally different. Some evil invasion is poisoning the popular girls! One by one they are fainting in school, plauged by a mysterious and dramatic illness! It’s terrorism!

But it’s absolutely NOT the fault of the two young innocent girls. Colin and Emma know a totally different story, but neither is willing to speak up, until the entire mess spirals out of control. The hypocritical insanity and hyperventilation of holier-than-thou teens builds through the novel, and Emma finds herself and her own slowly solidifying moral code compromised by that hypocrisy because she doesn’t speak up when she knows the truth.

In the beginning, I thought some of the religious figures and character portrayals are almost too fervent and too over the top to be believed, but after thinking about it, I realized: that was wishful thinking on my part. I’ve seen enough examples of those who are fervent and firmly-entrenched in their belief system to the point of demonizing anyone who thinks differently to know that the surrounding characters might seem outlandish, but they’re not necessarily unreal. Crack Sentry Safe Ms0100 on this page.

They’re also not necessarily bad or evil. They are, however, rigid and threatened by change and obvious difference. Adobe Photoshop Cs6 Filters Plugins Free Download. While I know some folks get itchy at the deep point-of-view of first person storytelling, I loved the snarky, sarcastic first-person narration and witnessing the evolution of Emma’s growing self-awareness and feelings of isolation and ostracization. The story features multiple portrayals of groupthink mentality, especially when the town as a whole is confronted with religious dogma, social pressure, plain old everyday gossip, or someone finally taking the risk to stand up and confront the mob. And there’s the hilarious narration, like this scene where Emma’s mom finds a calendar under Emma’s bed on which Emma crosses out the days until she can graduate and leave Wheaton: When my mom is upset, she talks in cliches. If you really want to tick her off, be sure to mention it.

“I do not understand your hatred for this town.” “Whenever I try to explain it to you, you get mad.” “I get mad because you’re building castles in the air and don’t have your feet on the ground.” “Castles in the air?” I asked. Great, now she was starting to sound like the weird seveties ballads she loves. Soon she’d start talking about nights in white satin and horses named Wildfire. I completely believed that an intelligent high school senior was telling me this story. I trusted her narration and I thought she was hilarious. There were, however, some things I didn’t like.

First, and this is a bit spoilerish: there is an ambiguous ending that wasn’t secure enough in the happy future of the heroine, despite my rooting for her and watching her struggle with her own ambivalence and disgust with herself and with the people around her. I wanted to know more that she was ok. Her narration ended too soon.