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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or her will‚ but other things have control over people as well. Sherwood Anderson shows two examples of control in Don and Ted. These two characters have problems created by their difficult lives. The other characters’ personalities either help or hinder the children‚ creating a family with a constant conflict until one of the characters either changes‚ or disappears from the story all together. "Brother Death" by Sherwood Anderson is a short story about power. Don and Ted both want to be in control
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Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories‚ Winesburg‚ Ohio‚ follows the lives of residents in a small made up town in Ohio called Winesburg. The characters of each story all concern themselves with a truth‚ or a principle of reality‚ which effects the way in which they live their lives. There are clear connections in Anderson’s book of short stories that directly relate to the way he conducted his life. Although not an autobiography‚ Anderson relates his childhood and adulthood in the truths
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“stole her horses”. After a brisk run from the Baron’s troops‚ Robin now has made his way to the forest‚ and manages to prove us wrong again by defeating and even doing the impossible deed of befriending a group of bandits that took up camp in the Sherwood Forest. During his stay there though he makes a small village and is now a highwayman himself‚ although it is for the greater good of the terrorized townsfolk in a village nearby. From this he is able to do some truly impossible feats like training
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Robin Hood is funny! Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a movie about Robin Hood saving the lives of poor people and getting revenge for his father’s death. The main events of the movie take place in Sherwood Forest. Some themes of this movie are loyalty‚ action‚ adventure‚ and love which made it interesting and fun to watch. In my essay‚ I will discuss two of Robin Hood’s best qualities. They are his bravery and his courage. One example
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