Summary Of Young Girls By Mary Pipher

Mary Pipher begins her analysis of young girls by comparing them to wreckage. With many different hyperboles she comes up with statements such as “just as planes… they crash and burn in a social and developmental bermuda triangle.” She follows those statements in her fourth paragraph with a story about Ophelia, a well known female character out of one of shakespeare's plays. She uses Ophelia as generalization for all young girls and talks about how she lost herself and then subsequently died. She follows this almost immediately with a quote from a young girl who said, “everything good in me died in junior high.” The point she is trying to make with this is that almost all young women feel the same. Death is mentioned many times in this essay,