Halse Anderson‚ Melinda Sordino proved that anyone can overcome anything if they find their voice. Melinda became mute the moment she was traumatized after she was date raped. Ever since then‚ she felt lonely and empty. I chose Melinda as my character because she showed anyone can overcome any hardships on their own. Melinda was a strong character who overcame depression and found her voice though art. Her artwork helped her tell her story and finally let her secret out. Melinda was a defenseless
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The title of the film is Speak and Kirsten Stewart portrays the leading role. This is about a girl who isolates herself from everyone in school and chooses not to speak. Melinda Sordino a freshman‚ starts her school year being mute and distant‚ and after what happened last summer everyone at school hates her‚ even her best friends won’t talk to her. Thus‚ there is a feeling that she wants to speak to someone to what had happened last summer. But she can’t even talk to her parents in regards to what
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freshman Melinda Sordino. Everybody in her high school doesn’t like her because last summer she went to a party and called the cops. Ever since she doesn’t speak and has no friends because she doesn’t want to tell anybody the truth. She later on gets the courage to say something because one of her ex-best friends is going out with popular senior named Andy Evans. We find out later in the book that Melinda was raped by Andy at the party. That is why she called the cops. The book is about Melinda trying
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growth and change in their own ways. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak‚ readers are given a mental picture of who they think Melinda Sordino is. “The bus picks up students in groups of four or five…I close my eyes. This is what I’ve been dreading. As we leave the last stop‚ I am the only person sitting alone” (3). What the reader gets is this picture of Melinda Sordino predicting that she’s going to have the worst freshman year ever. What I think a lot of readers don’t pick up on right away
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novel Speak details the life story of Melinda Sordino‚ a freshman in high school‚ and how both the traumatic and happy events of her life shape her character. In the summer before entering high school‚ Melinda is invited to a party that changes her life; and it is not for the better. A senior in high school named Andy Evans rapes her‚ and since she is so scared‚ she calls the police‚ they arrive shortly‚ and proceed to break up the party. Throughout Speak‚ Melinda is reassured by a poster of Maya Angelou
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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. In the end art helped Melinda through the school year giving her something to lean back on.
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Anderson is about an incoming freshman named Melinda Sordino. She’s riding the bus to school but she doesn’t have any friends to sit with. While she’s looking over the crowd of kids on the bus she spots her ex best friend‚ Rachel‚ but even she mouths “I hate you.” After Melinda attends her first few classes she already hates high school. When she gets to Art class she is assigned a subject that she must turn into art for the rest of the year. Melinda receives the word “Tree” and doesn’t understand
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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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Speak Yu-Feng‚ Chen English B Period B 10/17/2013 "Speak" is about Melinda Sordino‚ an angst-filled freshman who is hated by all of her "best friends" because she called the cops during the end of the summer senior party. Everyone got busted. Her parents aren’t much help either‚ always fighting about what’s best for Melinda and communicating through post-it notes on the refrigerator wall. When the new semester began‚ there are many kind of clans were formed‚ but she is not belong to any group
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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. Melinda says “I popped the head off
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