![]() Laurie Halse Anderson claims that she wrote Prom so that ‘normal’ people could see themselves represented in fiction, but Ashley is judgemental, shallow and rude – a combination which makes her a terrible protagonist. Her friends all hate him for no reason, too: he dropped out of high school because he was victimised by the vice principal, but apparently that’s a great reason to dump his ass. ![]() Her boyfriend, TJ, finds an apartment for them to rent and gets it all ready for her to move in as soon as she graduates from high school, but she’s so focused on the fact that the bathroom is behind a curtain in the corner that she doesn’t even remember to thank him. Despite Ashley’s seemingly self-sacrificial decision to help Natalia with the prom, she’s one of the most self-absorbed characters I’ve had the displeasure to encounter. But when their maths teacher steals the money meant for the prom, Ashley steps in to help her best friend Natalia save the special day for all of the other students (and she even starts to care about it herself, too).Ĭompared to Speak and Wintergirls, Prom is a book devoid of a USP. ![]() Prom is rapidly approaching and everybody at Carceras High is going crazy for it – everybody, that is, except Ashley. ![]()
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