Pretty Little Lies

 Authors note - This is a point of view piece.

Imagine moving from state to state running from your parents , and you can be caught at anytime and taken back to where you came from. All because your parents are drug addicts and abusive to you and you little sister , Ally.  Well in the book “Broken” by Brooke Emmerts , you read the story of the main character , Jess in her point of view.  The book “Broken”  is about a teenager (Jess) and a  five year old (Ally) traveling all over looking for somewhere to finally call home.  But what happens when Jess meets a boy name Nicky ? Well she falls in love with him , but they both have a secret they haven’t told anyone. Jess’s is her parents and Nicky is struggling is Bi- Polar. She doesn’t know what real love is since her parents are always beating her, so when Nicky beats her she feels loved.  What Jess doesn’t know is that Nicky is also beating her sister Ally .  Near the end of the book Jess ends up losing her life fighting  for her sisters life.

The book is told from Jess’s point of view , which affect the way a person feels while reading it. For example when they are describing Jess getting beat up , the reader can almost feel it too. Since jess doesn’t know about Ally getting beaten then the reader doesn’t know either.  For awhile Jess is confused and doesn’t know what is going on , that makes the reader feel confused.  The quote “ Dance with me “ comes up a lot when Nicky is in a good mood.   This gives a example of the love  they feel for each other.  That love is moved into the readers heart too.

The point of view really tells you how the reader feels about specific things. What is the point of view of the story were to change?  Would you feel completely different about the story?  If the point of view of the story changed Nicky would probably sound a lot more sweet and say that he didn’t try to hit them.  This would make the reader feel different to ,  maybe not as sad.  So if the whole book you were reading it from Nicky’s point of view and saw things his way and felt things his way, you wouldn’t be as mad at him.  In quote “ I missed him when I was gone” at the complete end , made it sound like he did absolutely nothing ; almost like she is the one who has the problem.  It shows you how she feels now that she is dead.

The point of views here are told very good , you would defiantly have different feelings for each character if there was different point of views.  Broken is told from Jess’s point of view. Depending on what the character is like  and who is telling the story , the reader gets a lot of different emotions while reading from different point of views.