Rhetorical analysis of Mary Gaitskill’s short story “The Girl on the Plane”

A 1,300-word essay that uses rhetorical analysis of Mary Gaitskill’s short story “The Girl on the Plane” and Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak to evaluate whether Ruth Graham is right about the inferiority of YA fiction. Does Anderson’s work lack the “moral and emotional ambiguity” of Gaitskill’s? Why is that kind of ambiguity valuable?