External Conflicts In Pretty Little Liars By Sara Shepard

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard is about Ali DiLaurentis, the queen bee, Aria Montgomery, the artsy girl, Emily Fields, the swimmer, Hanna Marin, the girl who wants to be popular like Ali, and Spencer Hastings, the girl who is brave enough to stand up against Ali, are an exclusive group of friends. When Ali goes missing, the rest of the group splits. Three years later, Aira is back from Iceland and meets Ezra Fitz and they hook up, but he happens to be her English teacher. Emily, who lives next door to Ali’s old house, befriends Maya, the new girl. She develops feelings for her and becomes confused about her sexuality. Hanna has lost weight since the group split and is now the popular girl. Her best friend Mona Vanderwaal, who they use

Emily, who is crushing on the new girl, is dating Ben, the swimmer jock. Emily is confused about how she feels about Ben when she and Maya go to the creek to swim. At practice, the next day, Emily is preoccupied with what happened with Maya. She is not focused and she swims very fast and Ben gets upset, because she is on his butt. They get into and argument, because she wants to swim ahead of him and he won’t let her. The quote makes the book better by showing argument and how it affects people. “‘Ben!” Emily called, the irritation in her voice showing. “What?” ”Let me go in front of you.” … “Would you stay off my ass?” he practically yelled. … “You’re supposed to let me go!” “Maybe if you didn’t leave right on top of me you wouldn’t be on top of me.” … “I can’t help it if I’m faster than you.” … “Ben…” “No.” He held up his hand. “Just go swim really fast, okay?” … “Ben…” … “Whatever.” “Fuck a moose.” (151-152) The quote shows that Emily is more focused on Maya, than on practice. While external conflict is important, so is

Aria is now Icelandic Aria and the old Aria is gone. She didn’t know how to be who she wanted to be. Her parents told her to be an individual, but she didn’t know who that was. The quote helps show that Aria is very important to the making of the book. “But Aria didn’t know how to fit in. Her parents had drilled it into her head that she was an individual, not a follower of the herd and should be herself. Trouble was Aria wasn’t sure who Aria was. Since turing eleven she’d tried punk Aria, artsy Aria, documentary film Aria, and, right before they moved, she’d even tried ideal Rosewood girl Aria, the horse-riding, polo-shirt-wearing, coach-satchel-toting girl who was everything rosewood boys loved, but everything Aria wasn’t. Thankfully, they moved to Iceland two weeks into that disaster, and in Iceland, everything, everything, everything changed.” (31-32) The quote shows that being an individual may be hard, especially if you don’t know what that is, but it is not impossible. External conflict, flashback, and character are all important to make the book better.
Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard is about Ali, Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily an exclusive group of friends, but when Ali goes missing they all change. Three years later, when they start getting text messages from “A” they all start to worry. When Ali’s body is found they are all reunited at her funeral and get the same text message from