never wins a war. This consensus seems reasonable because most books or movies the characters overcome the evil. This is especially true in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Evil may appear to be dominating‚ but in the end‚ good prevails. The major evil that Melinda‚ overcomes is that she has been raped. This is the main conflict of the story. This is a man vs. man conflict. Melinda‚ the main character‚ overcomes the evil that is Andy Evans‚ her rapist‚ by telling him no and to stop. Later
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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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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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Young killer The gunshot was still ringing in my ears as I ran to my bedroom. I shut the door and locked myself in; I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing‚ hitting the polished wooden floor like rain in a storm‚ more and more I howled. He didn’t deserve it even after everything he did. Darren was dead. Everyone thought Darren was great‚ he always was a charmer. Every morning he would wake up and bring me breakfast. “Alright love?” he would say with a wink. I just loved him‚ he had a great smile
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The Duck With A Dream “Quiet‚ everyone quiet.” Hector‚ the duck with a dream‚ proclaimed as the weekly meeting in Topeka‚ Kansas got very noisy. This meeting was a family meeting that occurred on every Saturday of the week at 2:30. This family had no last name‚ was very poor‚ and they were a very small family because most died in their adventure to South Africa. The survivors that still attend the meeting were Jasper the Dolphin‚ Will the Tortoise‚ Jimmy the Grape‚ and Dollace. “Last night
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independent is limn the book‚ Cisneros uses irony to show how Esperanza is vulnerable in her new environment. There is an example of verbal irony in the line‚ “Most likely I will go to hell and most likely I deserve to be there”(58). This is ironic in the way in which she says she would go to hell when she could be considered to be in already. That is due to the fact women in Mango Street can’t really escape from oppression they are hindered by for example a window. Just like in hell‚ life for women
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This passage from Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak shows how the main character‚ Melinda‚ has to face and overcome her biggest fear‚ speaking up against Andy Evans. When Melinda gets locked in the closet with Andy Evans‚ she is scared for her life. She sees him as “made out of slabs of stone”(193). Melinda still thinks of Andy as an invincible beast and she is still obscenly afraid of his strength. She envisions his hands as “enormous”(193). Therefore showing how frightening his size and physique
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Analysis Langston Hughes was a great writer who was a representative of black writers during Harlem Renaissance. Most of his work depicts the lives of African Americans and race issues. He was known for his poems‚ and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is one of his famous poems (Hughes Biography). In the poem‚ Hughes tells African Americans’ evolution‚ and he is proud of his race. In “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”‚ Hughes uses point of view and figurative language to create
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EXT. PATH OUTSIDE DURWIN - DAY (FLASHBACK) SETH (11) chubby‚ tall‚ with two black eyes and glasses held together by tape‚ waits behind a bush. HEATH (14) handsome‚ shorter than Seth‚ holds hands with his girlfriend as he walks down the path. Seth leaps from behind the bush and tackles Heath. A severe beating ensues‚ while Heath’s girlfriend screams. INT. MRS. CRAMER’S 7TH GRADE EVILOLOGY CLASS. DAY SETH And this is how I ended up in Necromancy School. The class applauds in a polite fashion. Seth
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In The House on Mango Street‚ Cisneros depicts how the setting impacts the narrator by using language to show how the narrator’s surrounding influenced her desires. At first the narrator was never one to be conscious of her social status as she was happy just being able to play around but that all changed after her interaction with the nun‚ “The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there… I knew then I had to have a real house” (paragraph 10-11). While the word “there” may just
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