In the book Fifty Shades of Grey innocent Anastasia Steele was getting herself into something that she could have never imagined. Christian Grey, CEO of Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc, has swept her off her feet with just one look into his smoldering, gray eyes. He has the looks, the mysterious personality, brains, and a secret that Anastasia must explore before she loses him for good.
What is Christian's secret? He likes S&M, and practically lives for it. S&M is an acronym for sadomasochism which is known as getting pleasure, usually from sex, involving the infliction of pain. Throughout the book Christian introduces Anastasia to his dark secret. Anastasia must sign a contract agreeing to be his submissive, or someone that agrees to be passive, receiving, and obedient. The author of the book, E. L. James, reveals all of Christian's desires through extremely descriptive sex scenes. Although the book does reveal sexual detail, there still is more that E.L. James wants her audience to know about the story and it's characters. Christian is a torn man, who was brutally burned and beaten as a child. The reader can conclude that Christian uses S&M to exert the pain the he went through on someone else, a submissive.
I also think that James reeled her audience in with the diversity of the characters. Anastasia is a twenty one year old independent women, who is fresh out of college, and has never had a boyfriend. She is very timid, shy, and has absolutely no self confidence. In the beginning of the book she is staring at herself in the mirror after getting ready, and Anastasia explains, “I roll my eyes in exasperation and gaze at the pale, brown haired girl with blue eyes too big for her face staring back at me, and give up. My only option is to restrain my wayward hair in a ponytail and hope that I look semi presentable.” On the other hand, Christian, at the age of twenty seven, owns a