To speak means to express oneself‚ or to convey thoughts‚ opinions‚ or emotions orally(Free). Without the ability to speak‚ one may be lost‚ and feel alone; however‚ some may not be able to speak because of fright and distress. In the book Speak‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda never understood how to speak her mind after the incident at the party. Melinda was never the same‚ and she felt alone. Rape can lead to a loss of words‚ emotions‚ and a disheartening loss of relationships‚ which causes
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you are a little kid growing up‚ you repeat things that you hear from the people around you. Without listening to them‚ you couldn’t speak. Not to contradict what I said earlier‚ but I do understand where Alison is coming from when she used the example people hearing the things around us and not reacting to them. In Melinda’s case‚ she couldn’t find the words to speak so essentially no one could listen to what she was trying to say. 12klemmj Aug 6‚ 2009 Kelsey responded in a very clear way. I agree
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Brandon Pereira Mr. Matheson English 9B (H)‚ Period 5 5 March 2013 Speak Up Does Melinda recognize that her isolation from friends and family is harmful to her? Melinda does recognize that isolating herself from her friends and her family is not helpful which causes her to take a slow step at a time to try to reconnect with others and soon speak up. Having a voice has meaning to it and teaches a valuable lesson. When Melinda tells David that she doesn’t understand why her standing up to Mr
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a book that I am not able to relate to or make connection with in my own life. Contemporary literature‚ like Speak is a lot easier to for high school students to understand and apply. This is one of the many reasons why I am so interested in reading more books by this writer. I recently checked out the book Winter Girls by the same author and I’m sad to say I do not love it as much as Speak. The summaries and reviews I read online made it sound amazing!
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Speak Essay Symbolism This book walks us through Melinda’s High School experience thought this year. She experiences ‚ bullies‚ petty fights‚ and girl cliques. A tree tells Melinda’s story‚ and helps her accept what happened to her the summer before freshman year of High School. Melinda has gone through a lot and no one knows about what happened the night of the party. To everyone at school she’s just the girl who called the cops to get everyone at that party in trouble. They think she
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that nobody is comfortable talking about. But each of these things are very serious and many teens have these things in their life. Adolescents are a very crucial time in life. All teens have as story‚ but very few are telling them. In the novel Speak‚ Melinda is affected by these topics and she has trouble finding her own voice. Without telling her story she is making herself worse and more traumatized. It is important that adolescents tell their story because it is an ideal way to deal with troubles
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lens. The novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman illustrate the critical lens. Speak is about how the main character‚ Melinda‚ is trying to find her identity and trying to be herself. The book Maus is about the Holocaust‚ which was caused by one group of people extremely disliking the identity of another group. The Jewish were just trying to observe their own religion‚ but Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t want them too. The novel Speak illustrates the critical
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comes from his masculine ego. He believed he was better than everyone and he could do whatever he pleased. This is when‚ at a party‚ he sexually assaulted Melinda. Melinda was traumatized by this‚ so the reader learned of her trauma. So every time she saw him and his masculine confidence‚ it caused her to freeze up. Finally‚ he confronts Melinda‚ telling people the truth and them finally believing her. The reader truly sees his vicious and forceful self. Andy’s downfall is similar and different
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Andy Evans’ downfall was his problematic personality of not being seen as a rapist. Considering this‚ Tybalt’s downfall came from him not wanting to seem weak. From the book Speak‚ Andy Evans personality causes him to exhibit toxic masculinity differently from Tybalt. Andy Evans asks Melinda a question in the hallway and Melinda thinks this in her head‚”IT stares at my face. I crush my jaws together so hard my teeth crumble to dust.I am a deer frozen in the headlights of a tractor trailer. Is he going
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due to unoriginality‚ can be parallel to each other with their similar characteristics and situations. Furthermore‚ a good example of two characters that are parallel‚ or alike to each other are Mariam from A Thousand Splendid Suns and Melinda from Speak. I believe that they are extremely parallel to each other because the have both dealt with controversy throughout the story. They have both dealt with situations that had a huge effect on the way they act‚ as well as treated others. But‚ these
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