Hi‚ Melinda‚ it’s Thalia how are you? Last time I saw you were not speaking. I need you to trust me and tell me what happened to you that day at the party. I am aware that everyone is blaming you for calling the police. I’m sure that if you called the police it was for a good reason. Speak to me‚ I promise I won’t say anything to your parents or your so-called friends. Remember how close we were before this incident happened we would always tell each other everything. I am very sorry that my
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decided to take a different path down the writing lane. One of the main things that Anderson repeatedly mentioned in her talk is that she writes about the things that are hard for people to discuss. She uses her novel Speak to support that notion. Speak is the story of a girl named Melinda who was raped at a party over the summer in Syracuse‚ New York by Andy Evans. She keeps the rape to herself for a very long time
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exhibit this theme are Speak by Laurie Anderson‚ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. All three of these literary works are classic examples of this idea. In the novel Speak‚ by Laurie Anderson‚ the concept is plain to see. It jumps right out at the reader. Andy Evans is obviously the "evil." After he rapes Melinda‚ her life goes into a downward spiral. She struggled with depression and self-hatred for many months. At one point‚ Melinda says‚ "There is a beast
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feel out of place? If the answer is yes‚ you can definitely relate to Melinda (Mel). Depression is very common‚ especially among teenagers. Melinda is one of these teenagers who need someone but don’t have that someone. Melinda (Mel) falls under depression after a violent summer party. After what happened to her‚ Mel is trying to figure out who she is and how to handle with her life. During August before school started‚ Melinda got raped at a party that she got invited to and then called the police
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" Page 5 The theme is all surrounded by Melinda’s secret. Plus the only person Melinda wants to tell is Rachel. Her ex-Best friend. 3. (Ch) -"I get out of bed and take down the mirror. I put it in the back of my closet‚ facing the wall." Page 17 It looks like Melinda doesn’t have any self-confidence. She took down the mirror because she doesn’t like looking at herself. She doesn’t like looking at the "new" Melinda. 4. (C) -"I turn up my music to drown out the noise" Page 36 Sometimes I do
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Melinda is an individual who can see and hear those who have died but have yet to "walk into the light" or move on to a higher plane. Most of us can not imagine a life such as that. A life dealing with the supernatural and unknown on the daily basis is a
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Myself---- Accept Who I Am Many of the main characters in the stories had a difficult time accepting who they are. For example‚ Melinda demonstrates her suppressed sense of identity throughout the novel Speak. She is self-conscious about how other people think of her. She thinks no one could like the person she really is‚ thus she kept the secret of being raped and refuses to speak. Similarly‚ Jin-Wang could not accept himself as a Chinese. He abandons his own culture‚ acts out as a typical white kid‚
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communicate with notes on the kitchen counter” –pg. 14 Anderson. In Speak by Laurie Anderson Melinda’s family is not very close. They each have privacy and there isn’t much communication with each other. Eventually Melinda completely stops talking to her parents‚ but by the end of the novel they learn that they need to have communication to be a strong family. Melinda’s family was never really close‚ but after the incident Melinda and her family grow even father apart‚ however in the end‚ they grow
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An Analysis of The Green Mile January 10‚ 2013 "We each owe a debt‚ there are no exceptions. But oh God‚ sometimes The Green Mile seems so long." The 1999 film‚ The Green Mile was a film that touched many. Originally this film was a novel‚ written in six volumes by the award-winning author Stephen King. In this film King sought out to depict the moral issues surrounding the death penalty from the beginning but as the film continues the audience is drawn to
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relative of his mother’s owner. Brown escaped slavery with the assistance of a Quaker named William Wells‚ and took his name as a result. Brown spent several years helping slaves escape to Canada while working on a steamboat‚ the same way Glen and Melinda escaped the United States. With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act‚ Brown escaped to England where he wrote several novels including Clotel‚ one of the first recorded African American novels. He returned to Boston to work for the New England Anti-Slavery
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