Analysis Of The DUFF By Kody Keplinger

The DUFF by Kody Keplinger is a frank, almost harsh look on some of the realities facing young independent women today. Bianca Piper, the tough, no-nonsense self-confident young protagonist of the story, narrates. Throughout the book readers journey with her, while her parents’ marriage falls apart, she makes seemingly wrong decisions and pushes away her closest friends. Observing her go from a young girl putting up a front of confidence and bitingly harsh wit to cover a scared and unsure heart to a confident, strong woman, who knows who she is and who is important in her life, propels the reader forward.

Establishing an immediate connection with Bianca by making her the focaliser of the story, Keplinger pulls the reader into the world of Hamilton. All information derives from Bianca; she’s the narrator and the main character reacting to events taking place, the story’s reflector. Creating an instant empathetic identification, allowing readers to relive or experience by proxy the story taking place (Scott 57). Furthermore, this empathetic feeling organically developed by the author’s use of homodiegetic narration, narrating the entire book from Bianca’s point of view.

Correspondingly, this form of fixed focalisation, the presentation of facts and events from the constant point of view of a single entity, allows

Needing to escape for different reasons, both entered into their booty call based relationship not wanting any emotional connection, just pure physical distraction. Nevertheless, as they begin to talk more a bond emerges. Consequently, allowing Wesley to move from being the antagonist to the foil, a character who contrasts and parallels the main character, without much struggle (highered.mheducation.com). He even became the hero of sorts by rescuing her from a dangerous