Pretty Little Liars

Author’s Note: This is a new retelling piece. This piece shows that I know how to explain and summarize a story in an informal essay. This will improve my goals for 3^rd quarter and hopefully raise my grade for retelling to a 10.

Imagine your best friend getting murdered out of now where. One second she’s there and the next thing you know, she’s gone. Then all of a sudden you’re getting these weird messages about all your secrets. But the only one who knew your secrets was Ali, your best friend, and she was dead. This is what Emily, Hanna, Aria and Spencer have to deal with throughout the book series, Pretty Little Liars.

In the beginning of the story, the old best friends split apart after Ali was murdered. Her murder was never solved and after a few months people basically stopped caring. The four, old best friends don’t really know how to take it, so they basically create new lives, without each other. Everyone is perfectly happy but then their lives start turning upside down. All the girls start getting text messages, emails and IM’s about their deepest, darkest secrets that only Ali knew. Every message ends with –A. They eventually tell each other and try to figure out who this person is.

Next, the girls start to do crazy things because of A. If they don’t do these things, A would tell all their secrets and the biggest one of all, the Jenna Thing. That secret could never get out because they could get in huge trouble with the police or worse, prison. One big event that happened in Pretty Little Liars was when Toby killed himself. This made a huge impact in the four girl’s lives because they thought A was Toby, but they still kept getting messages from A. This caused a lot of problems for Emily, Aria, Spencer and Hannah and now they didn’t know who to trust.

 So now you’re probably wondering, who is A? Who killed Ali? Throughout the book series they start getting clues about who did all these horrible things and eventually they find out. Through friendship, betrayal and high school drama the four Pretty Little Liars will never be the same again.