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    I’ve read this book numerous times. I always get hooked and can’t stop reading. The author of the book is Laurie Halse Anderson. In this book she writes from the aspect of a teenage boy. I found this surprising because she is so accurate on how men thought and how they’re portrayed in the book. This book really is one of the major things to inspire me because it showed

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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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    Speak‚ Laurie Halse Anderson “Speak” is book about a young girl who loses her voice after being raped and slowly gains it back over time. Laurie Halse Anderson uses an internal voice throughout the book to show the havoc that is attacking Melinda’s mind. This adds to the theme of being outcast and isolated because the she has no one to really talk to. One reason she is an outcaste is that she called the cops at the part where she was raped. This leads her to lose her group of friends “the Plain

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    Laurie Halse Anderson writes children’s and young adult novels. She wrote the novel Wintergirls and it was published in 2009. The main character is Lia Overbrook‚ and she wants to forgive herself and move on from her best friend’s death. She tries almost everything she can to forget that her friend died because she wasn’t there to help her‚ but others won’t let her forget. The other students at school keep reminding her that it’s her fault and makes sure she knows she should’ve answered her phone

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    I really enjoyed listening to renowned author Laurie Halse Anderson because she is different author than I’m used to reading/hearing about. She said that she was born in 1961 and she was raped at age 13‚ which prompted her style of writing. She had a broken childhood and she was on the path of living a broken life until she 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

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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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    In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ characterization‚ setting and plot all assist in the theme. The theme is you need to speak up in order to help yourself. Anderson uses characterization to elevate the theme. Melinda is immature‚ which make her problem even worse. For example‚ Melinda acknowledges‚ “I almost tell them right then and there [about the rape]” (Anderson 72). Melinda foolishly tries not to tell anyone about her rape. Eventually‚ she learns that telling someone about the rape

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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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    Chains‚ a work of historical fiction by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a young slave girl named Isabel living at the time of the American Revolution. She and her younger sister‚ Ruth are living a happy life in Rhode Island with their kind master‚ Miss Mary Finch‚ until she dies and they are turned over to her mean nephew. They are promised their freedom in Miss Mary Finch’s will‚ but do not receive it because nobody respects them enough to check. When they are sold to a Loyalist couple called the

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    This summer I read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The story begins with Melinda‚ the narrator‚ starting ninth grade. Everyone‚ even her old friends‚ won’t talk to her. It’s later announced that during the summer‚ Melinda called the police on a party and it got shut down. After this incident‚ Melinda became the most hated girl in her school. Something horrible happened to Melinda at the party that she hasn’t told anyone about. She shuts herself in‚ withdrawing from school‚ her family‚ and any possibility

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