This stage in life is one of the most important in literature. The coming of age theme is found in many pieces of literature‚ such as Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Deborah Ellis’ The Breadwinner. The main characters in both of these young adult novels experience 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
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Why must we speak English ?? 1. English is the International Language and is one of the most popular and most spoken in the technology world. 2. We need to know English language in order to study any science subject or any computer language. 3. We need to know English to communicate effectively too many developed countries. 4. English is very much important in our life‚ it is necessary in each and every field. 5. If we know English we never feel tongue tide in front of others
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I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding‚ she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In
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In the story Speak Melinda is being seen by other students on the bus is very different from how the readers are viewing Melinda. At the beginning of the story Melinda gets on the bus at the first stop and she decides that she will sit in the front in hopes that one of her friends would sit with her. In the story Melinda says‚ “If I sit in the front‚ it will make me look like a little kid‚ but I figured it is my best chance I have making eye contacts with one of my friends‚ if any of them decided
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The book ¨Speak¨ by Laurie Halse Anderson was about a girl named Melinda that was raped at a party during the summer by Andy Evans. Speak has many different themes; Adolescence‚ communication‚ growth‚ female empowerment‚ friendship. But depression was the accurate theme . You see Melinda go through depression and her not speaking up about it. Melinda knows she has depression but wants to forget about. My evidence for this is “the whole point of no talking about it‚ of silencing the memory
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Speak Speak; a novel by Laurie Anderson is set in a small town in New York with a young teenager girl‚ Melinda‚ who starts her high school years as an outcast. Her ex-best friends all split up into different clans except her; she was just by herself along with new girl‚ Heather. Melinda hasn’t spoken much since the accident over the summer and leaves her silent throughout most freshman year. At home she doesn’t speak much either and kind of leaves her parents curious as to why she doesn’t talk anymore
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Speak Readers Response Anderson‚ Laurie Halse. Speak. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux‚ 1999. 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
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1.What work or works are you writing on‚ and why did you choose to write on work or these works? Langston Hughes "the Negro Speaks of Rivers" 2. What critical question were you exploring in this essay? Did you find this question difficult to answer? What did this work mean and it was fairly easy to find. 3. How did your understanding of the work(s) about which you are writing change as you wrote this essay? If it did not change‚ why do you think that was? It didn’t I knew what he was talking
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1) In his essay “When Victims Speak (or‚ what happened when Spielberg added Amistad to his list?)”‚ Steve Lipkin declares that rather simply retelling the injustice slave story‚ Steven Spielberg’s docudrama Amistad takes the confrontation between emotional import of the story and its social and political background to convince audiences with the moral truth of American jurisprudence through the empower voice of enslave. 2) In his essay “When Victims Speak‚ (or‚ what happened when Spielberg added
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The book‚ I wrote on four walls: Teens Speak out on Violence‚ can be related to every person especially teenagers. The book tells that everyone’s lives are not different from others. Like Claire‚ Sue‚ Janice‚ Don and other more. Claire’s childhood was hard‚ she had no social skills‚ she was unsure about herself and she got bullied in her school. After reading her story‚ at first‚ I felt pity and bad for her‚ with all the experienced she met while growing up was so difficult. She went
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