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    Summarized & Analyzed "Hard Love"
    Summarized & Analyzed "Hard Love"
    Summarized & Analyzed "Hard Love"
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    Summarized & Analyzed "Hard Love"

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    “Hard Love” by Ellen Wittlinger was first published in 1999. It proved to be a highly successful novel and it soon became very popular. The book won the Printz Honor Award in the year of its publication.

    Winning this award for Young Adult Fiction was a remarkable achievement because several books have been written on the subject of love, but it is a novel with a difference that presents the theme of love from a very different perspective.

    Summarized & Analyzed "Hard Love"
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    John Galardi, Jr.
    Marisol Guzman
    Brian
    Anne Van Esterhausen
    Diana
    Al
    John Galardi, Sr.
    Helen Guzman
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateDec 21, 2016
    ISBN9781370650057
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      Summarized & Analyzed "Hard Love

      Copyright

      Chapter One: Introduction

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Chapter Three: Major Characters

      Chapter Four: Complete Summary

      Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

      Chapter One: Introduction

      Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger was first published in 1999. It proved to be a highly successful novel and it soon became very popular. The book won the Printz Honor Award in the year of its publication.

      Winning this award for Young Adult Fiction was a remarkable achievement because several books have been written on the subject of love, but it is a novel with a difference that presents the theme of love from a very different perspective.

      Most of the reviews received by the author were highly positive. However, there were a few negative reviews. According to Publishers Weekly, Hard Love is ‘somewhat overdramatized.’ However, it admires the themes that the author has so beautifully explored.

      Most of the reviewers are unanimous that the majority of the book’s teenage readers will readily identify themselves with the themes such as awkwardness of awakening sexuality and crossing the line of friendship.

      There is no doubt that the author has been able to reach the young readers and give them a lot of food for thought.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      As the novel opens, we are introduced to John Galardi, Jr. He studies at high school. The boy hates his parents and he seems to be immune to emotion. He is very distinctly cynical.

      The boy’s parents had got divorced when he was just a kid. Since her divorce from her husband, John’s mother has been depressed. She won’t even touch John. His father is even worse. He left the mother and child and ran away because he did not want a family.

      His father takes John out for pizza every Friday night. That happens to be the only time every week when the boy is with his father.

      Once, John reads the writing of Marisol. He wants to meet the writer. Marisol is a mysterious but very cool person. It is expected that John and Marisol will not be able to stand each other because the boy is a gloomy and sad figure and Marisol is competing for the prize. Against the expectations of probably all the readers, John and Marisol become very good friends.

      They begin to hang out after their first meeting. Initially, it happens when John is in town to meet his father, but in a few days, they begin to read each other their writing. They often go to concerts together and have dinner together.

      Since John feels abandoned, it is very difficult for him to remain like the normal people his age. He has to struggle with the issue of abandonment. He finds it very difficult to come out of his shell.

      Marisol proves to be great help and support in this respect. She helps him come out of his shell a little. Brain is John’s friend who encourages John to ask Marisol to come to prom with him. He meets Marisol and asks her to prom. She agrees.

      A new dress is bought and John is right in time for the prom. John comes to pick her in a limo. She is in her beautiful dress ready to go with him to the prom.

      The only problem is that Marisol is a lesbian, but John already knows about it. He has in fact known that right from the beginning.

      At the prom, when John tries to kiss her, Marisol is quite confused. She does not know what John wants from her, but

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