Help to cement a friendship between Carey and Ann. The focus here is upon Sandy's bridging the gap between herself and her inarticulate father and upon Sandy's learning to distinguish between love and sexual attraction. Sandy loves her horse Charlie, but Charlie provides little in the story except an alibi for Sandy's trysts with Lonnie, a married man.
In these cases, the story's complications and resolution develop out of the protagonist's interactions with people instead of animals. The least complex relationships between Hall's adolescent protagonists and her fictional horses and dogs occur when the animal plays a peripheral role in the novel, providing only a plot device or background color. Where they are central to the story, their relationship with the protagonist ranges widely in nature and complexity from closest companion to most intractable opponent.
However, these horses and dogs function in diverse ways: they may serve as no more than a convenient plot complication and no less than the story's shaping force. Indicate, much of her own life centers on horses and dogs and both appear regularly in her fiction, almost always to the exclusion of other kinds of animals, either domestic or wild. This article discusses only her animal fiction for young adults. Many of Hall's animal stories are intended for younger readers. Although this scope alone justifies taking a closer look at how Hall uses animals in her fiction, such an exploration can serve not only to yield insights into the work of a prolific and popular YA writer but also to provide a lens through which to view other YA animal stories. No author of YA fiction writes about animals more than Lynn Hall she has included them in over half of her eighty-some books. However, little has been written about the YA fiction usually categorized as "animal stories" with a few exceptions, such discussion is typically brief, emphasizing the positive consequences of a loyal and devoted relationship between a young person and an animal without considering the variations and implications of these alliances. An Adolescent's Best Friend: The Roles of Animals in Lynn Hall's FictionĪnimals often play an important role in adolescent lives, so it is not surprising that they appear in many young adult novels.
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