I think Dessen's intended audience is teens or young adults- well not only because I found this book in the young adult section of the library but also because I when I looked up Sarah Dessen I found that she was a famous author who had written a lot of books for young adults. I also figure that the intended audience is young adults because the main character of this book, Annabel is also a young adult- she's a teenager in high school which makes her story easy to relate to seeing as how I'm in still in high school too. I guess the question then becomes- why did Dessen want to write a book that young adults could relate to? What was Dessen's reason? My reasoning is that Dessen wrote a book that young adults could relate to because she had either experienced something similar to what Annabel goes through in this story or she knew someone who did go through something like Annabel. Either that or Dessen just has a really wild imagination.
Dessen overall seems to have a very personal, open relationship with the audience through her main character- Annabel. Eventually Annabel tells you everything that could ever matter about herself- how she can't speak her mind openly about a lot of things, her personality, being raped, dealing with a sister who has an eating disorder- things that you wouldn't normally learn about someone unless you sat down with them and they told you their story. So often you learn things about people from somebody else- say you're all in class but someone is sitting next to you and they're talking about somebody you know- well do you sit there and listen to something you've never heard about this person you know, effectively eavesdropping etc. just learn something about someone you don't really know all that well to begin with?
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