Sentence Structure 

Colleen Hoover’s sentence structure is simple but grabs the reader. She writes for a mature audience and tends to get a little spicy. Her writing is bold and personal which is intriguing for the audience. For example, in "It Ends With Us, Hoover grasps the reader in awe by writing, “My body is too weak to move and I can’t even open my eyes and watch him. He thrusts against me several times and then holds still, groaning into my mouth. He drops on top of me, tense, yet shaking.”She does not use very long amounts of dialogue throughout the story, and instead goes into deep detail about the setting and events.

Setting

Hoover uses Setting to show emphasis on the importance that different places in the story have on the depiction of violence, emotional, or important events for the characters. Many of these places are repeated throughout each book and express a tone that could either be good or bad in contrast to how the place was first described.

Emulation of Hoover

As I sit up from what I thought was just a drunken sleep, I jump at the sight of blood on the floor around me. In the darkness between the kitchen counter and the island, I was unable to recollect how I had ended up here, and the glasses of wine and clothes on the floor did nothing to help me retrace my memory.

I start to push myself off the ground when I feel a sudden strike of pain coming from my head. It's throbbing; I start to get dizzy. When I get my un-blurred vision back I notice a shadow move across the room across from me. 

“Hello?” I hesitate to say.

Nothing.

I start to creep around the kitchen and I see a manly figure in the room across the way. He is digging through my drawers, it appears. I walk closer and then I start to realize what had happened.

I was at the bar last night with some girlfriends, and I vaguely remember meeting a man and he bought me a couple drinks and then offered to take me home. I don’t remember drinking more wine when we got home, but the impression of this man on top of me stays familiar on the touch of my body. I remember us talking and then the next minute we were on my couch no longer verbally speaking. That is when my memory goes blank.

My body starts to shake as I get this anxious feeling. I feel a sense of fright coming from within my body and it makes me think that the blood on the floor was no accident. This man is rummaging through my bedroom and it only occurs to me at this moment that last night didn’t end in a peaceful manner. I sense a pain between my legs that strikes a realization that I was sexually abused without any conscious mind to what was going on. I fall to my knees and cry. I curl up and keep crying. I forget that there is a man in the room twenty feet away from me and I continue to cry. 

A noise comes from the hallway. It’s the man.

Explanation of Emulation

Characters:  I used a first person point of view to express the characters first hand experience.  I chose to go into a lot of detail by using the first person because it imitates the way Hoover would explain a situation from the characters direct perspective. I didn't include a lot of information or knowledge on both characters being portrayed which is similar to how some of Colleen's books are.

Sentence Structure: This story line, while being a scary and unfortunate occurrence, is realistic to something that could happen to an individual. I chose this specific detail and story line because Hoover would write about something like this, and she might just have already. I added a small quote to show that Hoover doesn't tell the story much through the quotes. 

Setting: I used the kitchen of the house and the darkness of the room to give the erie and lonely feeling. I imitated the use of tone with the setting to give the impression of important intent of the time and place of the event.