depicts the real-life class action lawsuit Anderson v. Cryovac‚ where parents of the deceased children sued the companies W.R. Grace and Beatrice for negligence and wrongful death‚ among other charges. Both the movie and the actual civil case pose many insights about tort and environmental law‚ as well as demonstrate the sentimental‚ intrinsic value of such exorbitant litigations. To begin‚ the movie A Civil Action is largely based on the landmark case Anderson v. Cryovac. In Wodburn Massachusetts‚
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means that in literature there is often a case where evil wins a battle but it 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
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constitutionally protected speech‚ whether for protection or for any other reason‚ violates the first amendment." - www.Ala.org I have read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is often banned or challenged because of its rape scenes and the depressing and emothional feelings expressed throughout the book. On macbookkids.com it states "Andersons book sends a critical message not only to teenagers‚ but to adults as well. If you are or have been a victim of sexual assault‚ speak up‚ you dont have to go through
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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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Imagine a flightless bird‚ injured and alone in the forest‚ watching their flock fly away without them. This is what Melinda’s‚ the main character in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ life is like. Melinda was raped the summer before freshman year and no one knew‚ she then panicked and called the cops causing her peers to believe she ruined the party‚ and because of this Melinda isolated herself and became stuck in a void of depression‚ which caused her to be incredibly quiet and melancholy. Her friends
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Moral Values of Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson states publicly in her book Fever 1793‚ that she does believe in universal moral truths. This is supported by many pieces of evidence from the text. The setting in her text is summer 1793 in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania where Matilda works at her mother’s coffee shop. One morning her mother wakes her to get to work while they wait for their other worker‚ Polly‚ to come into work. On the way downstairs‚ her cat Silas had caught a mouse and left in
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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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exciting experience. The novel Speak is about a social outcast named Melinda and her struggles to fit in in high school. She doesn’t have any true friends because no one stays around long enough to hear her story. The book is written by Laurie Halse Anderson. Throughout the novel Melinda shows her emotional discomfort through actions instead of speaking out. In the end she speaks up for herself and she finds a happier state of being. In the beginning of the novel Melinda enters high school being
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Outcast The novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a 9th grade girl called Melinda Sordino whose life is being terrorized by her memories from a bad incident at an end-of-the-summer party. It is the first day of 9th grade for Melinda at Merry Weather High School‚ nobody likes her because she called the cops at the party‚ making her an outcast and speechless. By the end of the novel Melinda finally speaks to her mom and her ex-friends about the party‚ and the narrator learns that having the
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James Robert ‘Radio’ Kennedy is a 65-year-old handicapped man from Anderson‚ South Carolina‚ where the story of his involvement with T.L. Hanna High School takes place. This story was captured by the 2003 movie‚ “Radio”. The filmmakers condensed four decades of Radio’s story into one year from 1976 to 1977 in order to‚ what director Michael Tollin states‚ “show the convergence of events that led to Radio becoming an integral part of society in this small town”. What Tollin didn’t want to make was
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