Epic Fail (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Elise Benton: Main character. A modern-day Elizabeth Bennett with an edge. attends coral ree where her mother is principle and father is a math teacher. gets an in with the cool kids because of her sister, Juliana, who falls hard for Chase and then Elise kinda falls in love with Derek and is the drama of the school
• Derek Edwards: The Darcy-inspired character. His parents are big movie stars. is quiet shy and misunderstood as a spoil brat half the time. Just wants to be understood and is the schools hottest guy
• Layla Benton: Elise and Juliana's sister. She is supposed to be like Lydia Bennett, only she's worse.
• Juliana Benton: Sweet older sister, thinks everyone is nice deep down. Has a crush on Chase. Hates his sister with a passion though.
• Webster Grant: The Wickham character. Befriends Elise, but is only looking out for himself. has had a fall out with derek in the past
• Chase Baldwin: Charles Bingley dead on. Has a crush on Juliana and is Chelsea's older brother.
• Campbell McGill: Layla's friend. Her father is a famous anchor.
• Chelsea Baldwin: Chase's sister. A bitchy spoiled brat who has a crush on Derek.
• Melinda Anton: Derek's mother. A famous action movies star actress.
• Gifford: Chelsea's best friend.
• Diana: Elise's cousin. cool, calm and collected and we don't really hear much from her in this story
• Jackie: Derek's nanny.
• Dr. Gardiner: Elise's mother and the new Coral Tree principal. who has the need to put the school back in place after its distraught of unruly behavior lead by Chelsea
• Isaac Avenor: sophomore student in Elise's astronomy class, he is nervous and intent on doing well.
• Jason Bigelow: Student at Coral Tree Prep, throws a party at his house.
• Derek Edwards: Derek Edwards is a tall, muscular, good looking guy, who attends Coral Tree Prep where all the girls fawn over him since he is the son of Hollywood royalty. Although, he may seem arrogant at first, his real self comes out eventually.
• Kaitlyn Benton: The youngest Benton sister, she is 10 years old.
• Georgia Edwards: Derek's sister, she attends boarding school. Her situation is similar to Georgiana in Pride & Prejudice.
• Ms. Phillips: Add a description of this character.
• Billy Rodriguez
• George McGill
• Mr. Cantori
• Aunt Amy
• Sylvie Fine
• Kyle Edwards
• Kaitlyn
• Dad
• Mrs. Cantori

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• “"Girls seem to trust guys with blue eyes more" My chest contracted at that. "Only the stupid ones"”

  Derek and Elise

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• “‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’”

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• Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”

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• “Basically it means the world’s a giant shithole, but some of us are capable of imagining something better.”

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• I mean, he’s never stared at you like you’re the only person in the room when we’re all together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one’s looking—”

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• “Jules,” I said seriously, “I am so totally in love—” She squealed and bounced on the bed. “—with Derek’s house. It’s beautiful and huge—like you wouldn’t believe. There’s a cineplex-sized screening room, which you’ve got to see.”

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• “Did you want to make a wish? You still can, you know. Who says you can’t wish on an airplane?” I rested my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes. “Nah, I’m okay.” I had no problem wishing on an airplane. I just couldn’t think of anything left to wish for.

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• Hey, maybe the brakes won’t work and the bus will crash and we’ll all die. It was a nice thought, but we arrived safely at the beach a minute later.

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• he held his arms out and I moved into them. “It wasn’t meanness,” he said. “That’s the wrong word. But I guess maybe on some level I liked that you were . . . challenging.”

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• “My little Derek? The shyest kid you’ve ever seen, used to hide in my skirt wherever we went. You couldn’t get him to say a word to anyone, and he’d do whatever you told him to. I miss those days.

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• my being reasonably cute. On a good day. When the light hits me right.

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• Coral Tree

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Young Love: Elise & Derek. Chase & Jules
• Misjudgment: Webster vs Derek to Elise

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1. Claire Scovell LaZebnik (Author)

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