Being a Survivor In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” by Richard Connell‚ Sanger Rainsford shows physical strength‚ and bravery. From the book Speak‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda Sordino shows bravery and mental strength. The major traits of a survivor are bravery‚ physical strength‚ and mental strength and all of these people show these traits. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” by Richard Connell‚ Sanger Rainsford shows many traits of a survivor. The first trait is bravery
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Gabriella Rodriguez “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson Summer Reading Assignment 1. Pg. 11 “Her eyes meet mine for a second. I hate you!” | Melinda and Rachel have been best friends since kindergarten. That hurts considering how close their friendship is. Melinda never returns Rachel’s hatred. | 2. Melinda Sordino | Melinda is very bright‚ but her vision is sometimes clouded by her suffering. She is 14 years old and has to deal with the memory of being raped at the end of the summer
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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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Speak Yu-Feng‚ Chen English B Period B 10/17/2013 "Speak" is about Melinda Sordino‚ an angst-filled freshman who is hated by all of her "best friends" because she called the cops during the end of the summer senior party. Everyone got busted. Her parents aren’t much help either‚ always fighting about what’s best for Melinda and communicating through post-it notes on the refrigerator wall. When the new semester began‚ there are many kind of clans were formed‚ but she is not belong to any group
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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 this on your own." In My opinion‚ Speak should not be banned. Too many young girls face the same situation Malinda Sordino found
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Bullying Text Set I. Overview • The content area of this text set is English because these books can be used as gateways into writing. The topic is bullying. Bullying is an issue present in every school today whether it be verbal or physical. By reading‚ discussion‚ and writing about the books in this text set‚ the students who are being bullied may realize they are not alone and that there are outlets for their feelings and the students who are the bullies may have the opportunity to step into
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about a similar topic with their own experiences and insights. An example of this is the relationship between the poem “Sympathy‚” the memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ and the novel Speak. The title of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings comes from the repeating line in the poem “Sympathy.” In the novel Speak‚ the author made references to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the author of the memoir. Among the three works‚ there is a common theme. All three works have the theme of fighting for
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until you know the problem they are faced with or are facing. Monster by Walter Dean Myers and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson used theme and setting to prove the critical lens. The main characters in both these novels overcome challenging situations by taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them. In their struggle to make the best of their circumstances‚ the main character Melinda in Speak and Steve in Monster illustrate the critical lens. In Monster the main character Steve is faced
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The novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a very good book. The characters are very well developed and change throughout the course of the book‚ including learning an extremely important moral with which many people agree. There are many dynamic characters‚ including Melinda‚ Heather‚ Rachel‚ Melinda’s parents‚ and Andy. By the end of the book‚ Melinda learns an important lesson about being able to speak up for yourself. Between this important moral‚ well-developed characters‚ and many other factors
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novels like “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson or “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. The evil is considered the major issues brought upon the protagonists by the antagonists (when comparing these two novels)‚ such as the character of Andy Evans in Speak and Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird. However‚ the protagonists always found a way to conquer with the good‚ and will always shine brighter than the evil. In “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ the evil in this story is Andy Evans‚ Melinda Sordino’s
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