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Elle Ellen Hopkins's 'Burned'

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Burned is a story about a sixteen year old Mormon girl named Pattyn trying to figure out her way through life. She was shy, self conscious, yet strong hearted. When thrown obstacles like an abusive father, a large family, and a sex crazy new boyfriend, she has to find out her way through the pain. This story taught the main character how to love again and to be the woman that her true family knew she could be.
This is considered a commercial fiction story because it was written to entertain its readers and provide lessons as well. Even though the whole story seems like it could happen in real life, it is not based off of a real person's life so it is still considered fiction. It is not a literary fiction because it did not receive a literary merit. To be a literary fiction book it has to be eligible to receive on of these merits. Ellen Hopkins wrote this book more to entertain her readers, and let them see a new side to a classic love story. …show more content…

She puts in the book, “..heartbreaking, I think that if Dad, starting down the sign of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind...but he won't,” (Hopkins,531) which is explaining how eve after all the suffering that her father put her through, if he chose love, Pattyn would fall back into his unloving arms. Keeping family close was a major theme in this story because family will always have your back in the long run, she just had to figure out who her true family was. Another point in the story that readers could tell the main theme was about love was when Pattyn was trying to get to know her Aunt J more. While talking to her Aunt, Pattyn gets told that her church thought she was possessed by satan because of her crazy actions, “Because I want a normal life and someone to love me?” she explained to her Aunt J so someone finally understood that she hadn’t lost her

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