After exams she gets a internship (Praktikum) in a firm with a well-known attorney (lawayer, defender). Elle can collaborate by a case of a woman who is accused to killed her husband who is a multimillionaire. She wants to prove that fitness queen Brooke Vandermark hasn’t killed her husband.
Author
Amanda Brown was student at Stanford Law School. The book is based on her experiences as a law student.
2) Interpretation
- Characterisation
Elle Woods:
Elle’s favourite colour is pink and she’s blonde. She is a bit spoiled (verwöhnt). She was president of Delta Gamma (association for women) and president of the Intersorority council. She was Miss June font the USC calendar for three years. Elle is very romantic, kind hearted, helpful, a bit naiv and she stands up for others. She doesn’t give up quickly. She remarks details. Elle’s father is a plastic surgeon.
She loves fashion, accessories and shopping. She has a Chihuahua. She likes to design jewelry.
She knows that men likes her but she is only interested in her ex-boyfriend Warner Hunington.
Elle needs her friends to talk, for example her sorority sisters Serena and Margot or the manicurist in Stanford. Earlier Elle liked more to go to parties or arranged them than to learn. Now she learns for Warner and for acceptation.
Warner Hunington lll.
Elle’s Ex-boyfriend. He left her because he wanted to go to Stanford Law School and he thinks that she isn’t serious enough to be his wife or the mother of his children. He has high standards, but in fact Elle is better in Law School than Warner.
Serena & Margot
Elle’s sorority sisters. They think she is crazy when Elle decides to go to Stanford. They call her often.
Eugenia
After a while in Law School without any friends, Elle mets Eugenia, who is a bit like her. She is good at Law school.
Sarah Knottingham
Warner’s fiancée. First Sarah and Elle hate each other, but after a while, they become almost friends. Sarah is very intelligent. She is better than Warner in Law School.
- Themes
Friendship:
- The problem to find friends when you are different then the others, like Elle
- Friendship with people you can’t see often (Serena and Margot)
- The growing friendship between Warner’s fiancée Sarah and Elle. First they hatet each other!
Justice:
- Brooke Vandermark is innocent but she doesn’t want to let testify a witness for her because she is in a anonymous group called the Shopper Stopper which helped her so much. She doesn’t want to involve them.
- Elle wants to help Brooke (Brooke is also blonde and she was Elle’s fitness instructor once) By the way, Brooke was a Theta (similar organisation like the Delta Gamma’s).
Success:
- Warner has high standards, he wants to be very successful, he abandons to Elle because success is more important for him.
- Elle can impress Warner with the defending of Brooke Vandermark.
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Who has to be better, man or woman? ⇨ Sarah and Elle both have better grades and Elle has success with the defending of Brooke.
- Does Success makes attractive?
Discrimination:
- Elle is blonde and loves pink, the others discriminate her, they don’t like her even though they don’t know her really.
- Elle wants to build the Blonde Legal Defense Fund (BLDF). It’s mission wohld be to combat antiblonde discrimination in all it forms.
Love:
- Is it of value to wait for Warner?
- Is it important if the partner isn’t as serious like oneself?
- Structure, language
The book has 47 chapters, all of them more or less short. The language is more or less easy.
- Narrator, narrating voices
It is written in the third person. They are a lot of dialogues.
- Symbolism
Nice comparisions: They went together like shampoo and conditioner ⇨ Elle and Warner
What means the colour pink? This colour symbolise , emotions, wish for marriage
