Remembering #9 I absolutely love how Laurie Halse Anderson is able to easily put herself into the mind-set of a teenager and write in a way that we are able to relate too. Melinda’s words and actions actually sound like something a teen would say or do. Too many times I have been forced to read a book that I am not able to relate to or make connection with in my own life. Contemporary literature‚ like Speak is a lot easier to for high school students to understand and apply. This is one of the many
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The book I have just finished reading is called Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The publisher of the novel is Farrar Straus Giroux and was publisher in October 1999 with 197 pages. The genre of this novel was teen fiction. The cover automatically caught my attention when I first saw it‚ when I started reading it nothing failed to impress me. I instantly fell in love with the storyline and the concept due to the fact that it was so relatable. In the novel they give us the impression that the setting
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Courage is having enough bravery to do something out of the normal. Speak by Laurie Anderson is about Melinda Sordino struggling through freshman year‚ she called the cops during a summer party and is afraid to tell the truth of why she did. But once she does reveal the truth‚ everything changes. Courage pushes people go farther in life‚ helps people do things they don’t want to do‚ and makes change. Courage can help people do things they normally wouldn’t do‚ things that they once thought were too
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Attention Getting Title with link attached‚ so I can edit Peer pressure influence teenagers in many ways one of the main ones are bullying. I think Laurie Halse Anderson the author of “Speak” is saying that you shouldn’t sink in peer pressure because Melina was pressured to drink at a party and she ending up getting raped. She is influenced by peer pressure when she goes to a party and she she’s people drinking and she started drinking. (Halse). I experienced peer pressure when i went to a party
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In Forge‚ the story begins where Chains ends‚ with Isabel and Curzon escaping to freedom‚ but the focus of the story quickly changes from Isabel to Curzon. The two have separated again‚ with Isabel running away to try to find her sister and Curzon finding himself in the middle of the Battle of Saratoga‚ then enlisting in the Patriot army. The irony of a slave fighting for the freedom of others does not escape Curzon‚ who attempts to argue his case with his friend and fellow soldier Eben. Curzon questions
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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson is written from Isabel’s point of view in first person‚ which gives many advantages and several disadvantages to the story. An advantage of using this point of view is the reader sees what Isabel is thinking and feeling. “Madam will beat you bloody‚ he’s not your concern‚ it’s not your place. Go back‚ go back before it’s too late” (216) With this point of view‚ the reader is aware of what Isabel is thinking‚ something that would not be possible with another point of
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Just Try Isabel is a young girl. Isabel is a slave. Isabel is a girl who is constantly juggling new problems that are thrown at her. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s book Chains‚ people walk right over Isabel without even a thought. Isabel still gets back up. Three quotes that I think resemble Isabel’s situations are; “Life is tough my darling‚ but so are you”‚ “You have brains in your head‚ feet in your shoes‚ you can steer yourself in any direction you choose”‚ and “Hope
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Literacy Essay : Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson A deep deep darkness‚ swirling downhill through a dark and twisty hazy world hoping and hoping for someone to listen. This is what Melinda was hoping for. Hoping for someone to listen‚ to help‚ to guide. Melinda Sordino from the novel Speak was full of sarcastic wits and funny remarks. One problem. It is all in her mind. She doesn’t talk. Refuses to break her silence. Will not speak up. Melinda is practically a mute since the incident that that happened
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Speak is a short 208 page novel focusing around a highschool girl named Melinda Sordino‚ a school outcast who doesn’t speak at all. She lost all of her friends after she broke up a party that had occurred over the previous summer by calling the police. Now in high school she is completely isolated and never speaks‚ though since the book is from her perspective we see that her internal personality is sarcastic and slightly rude. On the first day a girl named Heather attempts to speak to her but she
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BIBLIOGRAPHY - Anderson‚ Laurie Halse . Speak . New York : Puffin ‚ 1999 . SUMMARY- Melinda Sordino is a just starting her freshman year at Merryweather High School and is not off to a good start . Before school started Melinda attended a party with her best friend which ended in her calling the police for reasons the reader learns throughout the book . Her year starts rough with her friends not speaking with her and her not speaking at all . She begins to become slightly depressed
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