The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Analysis

Should we be more specific? The girls live in Bethesda, Maryland and that is where Tibby spends her summer, but not the others—instead they're off to South Carolina, Greece, and Mexico, which...

This book is unique because the point of view is constantly changing—kind of like how the Pants are constantly changing their owners. We are constantly shifting around between fist person and...

Young Adult Literature; Coming of Age; Family Drama This book is definitely geared toward young adults, specifically teenage girls. It's an easy read, and the settings and points of view
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Friendly and Conversational Part of what makes this book such an easy read is that it feels like we're being told a story by one of our friends. The tone is consistently casual, sometimes funny...

Confusing. Just kidding. The structure of this novel is a little confusing, and it might take your brain a minute to shift gears as the point of view shifts around and the plot leaps from chara...

Some books have symbolic titles, but this is not one of them. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about a group of friends who are as close as, well… sisters… and who literally share a pai...

The epigraph is a line from a poem that appears in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, a book by J.R.R. Tolkien, and for our purposes, it foreshadows a major theme in this book, as...

First of all, the ending sets up the beginning of the next book. Carmen explains that the Pants will be taken out next summer and start all over again, and with that, we know there's at least one m...

Nothing too tough here. There are a few challenging words here and there, but they never interfere with our ability to understand what's going on, partly because the major ideas—friendship, h...

Please Don't Leave Me  For the first time ever, a close-knit group of friends—Lena, Carmen, Bridget, and Tibby—will be spending the summer apart, scattered all over the place in differe...

Lena's not exaggerating—Greece is a beautiful country, totally worthy of being painted. (source)Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, and she's like Lena on steroids. (source)Did you...

If it weren't for Bridget, this book would be rated G. It's fine for Bridget to be attracted to her older, forbidden soccer coach—ain't no shame in the crushing on your coach game—but then...

Literary and Philosophical References J.R.R. Tolkien (Epigraph)Aphrodite (5.30)Ralph Waldo Emerson (21.Epigraph)James Joyce (22.Epigraph)Sigmund Freud (8.29)The Guinness Book of World Records (3.3...