This summer I read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The story begins with Melinda‚ the narrator‚ starting ninth grade. Everyone‚ even her old friends‚ won’t talk to her. It’s later announced that during the summer‚ Melinda called the police on a party and it got shut down. After this incident‚ Melinda became the most hated girl in her school. Something horrible happened to Melinda at the party that she hasn’t told anyone about. She shuts herself in‚ withdrawing from school‚ her family‚ and any possibility
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outgoing one. The last phase‚ and tree was the one she drew for the last art project‚ it was a living‚ and breathing tree which was when she finally realized that she can stop punishing herself for happened because it was not her fault. In Laurie H. Anderson Speak‚ Melinda started off as a mute‚ scared girl but slowly regained her voice by expressing herself through the art of trees. Through the art of drawing trees‚ Melinda comes out of depression and guilt and becomes a more positive person. First
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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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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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Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds shows the reader how one felt happy while living in hard environments with rude people. These two books compare and contrast in interesting ways that are extremely noticeable to the readers. The book SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson is very problematic and realistic. When the protagonist‚ Melinda Sordino‚ got raped‚ it turned her whole world upside down. Her friends turned against her because they didn’t know what happened. She was also
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“Every scar I have makes me who I am” proclaimed an anonymous author. Sometimes people make decisions that will stick with them forever‚ even if they don’t want it to. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ she writes about a teenager named Melinda who goes through a ton of drama over the summer before and during her freshman year. A boy named Andy Evans sees Melinda and comes by her. He stays with her all night. Later through the night he brings her away from everyone else and rapes her
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help others? This is a reappearing question going through your head as you read this fantastic book. In the book Fever‚ 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ she shows that it is important to help the people around you. Out of the characters it is an important role to be helping others. It is one of the main reasons some people survive in this story. One way Anderson shows this theme is though Maddie helping grandfather. In the story Maddie wants to help grandfather because he is very ill. An example 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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Linda Pastan Through her poetry‚ Linda Pastan expresses clear and meaningful lessons‚ thoughts‚ and ideas. Pastan makes a point to try to make her poems extremely clear and not cleverly obscure. Her poetry takes on many different themes depending on the situation she has been placed in. Much of Pastan’s poetry coresponds to her life. Linda Olenik Pastan was born on the 27th of May in 1932 in New York City (Gaiownik‚ 355). Linda grew up in a Jewish family and attended attended Fieldston School
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