Hating Alison Ashley Analysis

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Hating Alison Ashley is an Australian novel, published in 1985, by children’s author Robin Klein. Addressed as an early-teen comedy, the book has a moral theme about the longing for happiness, the pressures of growing up and awkward and inexperienced social interactions. There are conflicts between students, an embarrassing family and social insecurities. Erica Yurken is an egotistical girl who considers herself to be above everyone else at Barringa east. Whilst Alison Ashley is elegant, wealthy and intelligent, everything that Erica aspires to be. Alison arrives at Barringa east during the school year and takes a seat next to Erica. Erica is immediately astonished at her style and organisation, therefore, she attempts to impress her. Quickly Erica realises that Alison shows no acknowledgment towards her, as a result, she stubbornly pushes her away out of hatred and jealousy. Throughout the whole story, this aggravated behaviour continues …show more content…

For example, whenever Alison and Erica would have some sort of dispute the irritation and strain would be expressed through the author’s words. I did not like the ending of the story. I found that the ending was very predictable and anticlimactic, especially when all the tension was being built up throughout the rest of the book. When I was nearing the end of the book I was already starting to envision the ending of the book and when I got to the end I was disappointed to see that I was correct. I would have preferred if the ending was more of a cliff-hanger and ended completely different than anyone would have expected. In conclusion, I would highly recommend this book to early teens who are fans of drama and comedy because they could probably relate to most of the issues discussed to a certain extent. Girls my age, especially, would enjoy this book as they could relate to the issues discussed and they have probably already experienced similar

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