Rape is a difficult subject to explain to others because it is traumatic experience that people not involved will be unable to deal with the situation. Laurie Anderson’s novel Speak focuses on this very issue. The protagonist‚ Melinda Sordino‚ must face the challenges of high school‚ family issues‚ and the inability to express herself. Mr. Freeman‚ David Petrakis‚ and sports are the things Melinda relies on to overcome the past that haunts her. Mr. Freeman is a factor that motivates Melinda Sordino
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past summer‚ she called the cops on a party. At least that’s what everyone heard. The book is called Speak. She goes through a lot inside the book. It’s someone’s job to tell you how she has changed. Read on learn how she has developed through the book. With every page‚ every sentence‚ and every word‚ you get closer to what happens. Melinda has portrayed herself to be extremely quiet. “I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.” People did begin to notice. Mostly
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Nooo! In Speak by Laurie Anderson. Speak is about a young woman Melinda who just started high school and everybody hates her because she was rapped at a party before school started and she called the cops. When Melinda is given a project in art to make a tree come alive the projects she made showed how melinda changd after being rapped ecause‚ She iked to hid in a closet her tukey sculpture‚ her dead tree face‚ and her cubist tree phase. Melinda likes to hide just like her turkey sculpture
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because George had a really hard decision to make at the end of the story on whether he should kill Lennie or not. It was a conflict as Lennie was like a brother to George and George cared for Lennie a lot and just wanted to look after him. But because everyone was going to kill Lennie‚ George was debating whether he should kill Lennie or not. He felt that killing him himself was the right thing as Lennie was his responsibility and if he didn’t‚ he would get tortured by the other ranch workers. This
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Living in a different country is hard enough. But not being able to speak the language everyone else is speaking is more troubling. Not knowing how to speak the language of the country you are in will affect you tremendously. People are so heartless and with them feeling like they can get over on someone who don’t understand will be taken advantage of. Amy Tan nervous level became very high due to the fact her mom had broken English. When Amy Tan decided to give a speech in front of the crowd
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How does Steinbeck present the lives of migrant workers in chapters one to three in ‘Of Mice and Men’? John Steinbeck’s novel‚ ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ was published in 1937. At this time America was still suffering the from the depression and the wandering workers who form the basis of the novel were very much within the consciousness of a nation separated by wealth yet driven by the idea of ‘the American dream’. Steinbeck’s novel is‚ however‚ essentially a tale of loneliness and of men struggling alone
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Throughout the book Speak Melinda had many topics in each of her many passages. These passages help us find out what type of a person Melinda is and what her character is all about. The entire book is narrated by Melinda. In the beginning we find out that she busted a party by calling the cops during the summer right before high school. Everyone thought she was a rat. Little do we know is that she never spoken up that at the party Andy Evans raped Melinda. During her freshman year nobody likes her
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? An understanding of contemporary relations of power‚ and of the Western intellectual’s role within them‚ requires an examination of the intersection of a theory of representation and the political economy of global capitalism. A theory of representation points‚ on the one hand‚ to the domain of ideology‚ meaning‚ and subjectivity‚ and‚ on the other hand‚ to the domain of politics‚ the state‚ and the law. The original title of this paper was
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‘The measure of a man is what he does with power”(Plato). With this quote‚ we can judge a man for what he is truly worth when authority is given to him. In both novels the antagonists do not use the power wisely‚ and this makes the protagonists miserable. That being said‚ power shapes the life we live. Power can be good; it can be bad; but it plays a huge role in who we are. There are many similarities in Speak and Animal Farm. Starting with similarities in theme are there is an abuse of the power
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“Speak”‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson characterizes of Joyce and Jack Sordino being neglectful and incompliant for parenting towards their daughter‚ Melinda Sordino. Essentially to start Anderson portrays Melindas parents as two different personalities. Joyce (Melindas mom) as the hardworking manager at Efferrs‚ a clothing store. Giving off that shes a practical yet busy woman who struggles to balance home and career. On the other hand‚ Jack (Melindas dad) sells insurance whom Melindas thinks is too
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