I really enjoyed listening to renowned author Laurie Halse Anderson because she is different author than I’m used to reading/hearing about. She said that she was born in 1961 and she was raped at age 13‚ which prompted her style of writing. She had a broken childhood and she was on the path of living a broken life until she decided to take a different path down the writing lane. One of the main things that Anderson repeatedly mentioned in her talk is that she writes about the things that are hard
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The book ¨Speak¨ by Laurie Halse Anderson was about a girl named Melinda that was raped at a party during the summer by Andy Evans. Speak has many different themes; Adolescence‚ communication‚ growth‚ female empowerment‚ friendship. But depression was the accurate theme . You see Melinda go through depression and her not speaking up about it. Melinda knows she has depression but wants to forget about. My evidence for this is “the whole point of no talking about it‚ of silencing the memory
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In the book Speak by Laurie Anderson‚ the author uses a combination of flashbacks and suspense to create the text of the story. Melinda‚ the main character of the book‚ is dealing with both man vs. self and man vs. man. After the summer kickoff party‚ she was ostracized by her former friends because of her act of calling the cops. Anderson uses flashbacks to build suspense of the story: “The moon looked closer back in august. Rachel got us into the end of the year party‚ a cheerleader party‚ with
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Taylor Cummins R.S. Huttman Honors English IV 20 December 2011 Finding a Voice Laurie Halse Anderson‚ author of Speak‚ is no stranger to the world of censorship and book banning. Born on October 23‚ 1961 in northern New York‚ Anderson was in the literary world from the beginning (“Speak- Anderson”). She received a Bachelor’s degree in Languages and Linguistics in 1984 after transferring to Georgetown University (“Speak- Anderson”). “[Anderson] began her career as an author of three picture
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Speak Readers Response Anderson‚ Laurie Halse. Speak. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux‚ 1999. Print. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about the protagonist Melinda Sordino and her journey through her freshmen year of high school. She started school with no friends but in the end she had more than she thought she would. In school she struggles with paying attention and getting good grade and her home wasn’t much better. She had a mother that was always working and a father that really didn’t care
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Aranpreet Singh Ms. Ceci ENG 1D1-07 Speak In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak‚ trees symbolize Melinda’s growth throughout her life to stay sane and pass the horrific time of her life. Depression is her first phase‚ when she starts to paint the trees that were hit by lightning. It is also shown by her not talking to many people. She starts to realize that she cannot be perfect when she imagines a beautiful oak tree but really cannot carve it properly. Her third phase comes when the trees outside
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Pattern Recognition Pattern recognition‚ by William Gibson‚ in relation to our class as whole throughout the course of the semester has many interesting ties. Throughout the course‚ we have discussed topics such as knowledge and the self and both of these topics were ones that were hit upon when reading Pattern Recognition. These topics were hit on through various points in the book and they were touched upon in various ways through different characters. Although Pattern Recognition is a postmodern
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Communication Communication is the way we express our feelings and show our thoughts. It is a major part of our day to day lives. In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda goes through a rape at a party at the beginning of summer. She was raped by Andy Evens and called the cops on the party to tell them that she had been raped. Everyone got in trouble at the party and now blame her for what happened. She does not want to tell anyone what actually happened to her at the party and doesn’t really
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I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding‚ she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In
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On March 1st‚ 2016 I was privileged to witness Laurie Hazard speak on Procrastination. She centered her speech on the goal of organizing your behavior over an extended period of time. She than proceed with giving us the advice of organizing your goals into two categories called objective and subjective goals. Objective goals focus on attaining a specific standard of proficiency on a task‚ usually within a specified time. On the other hand‚ a subjective goal tends to be more of a general statement
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