Analyzing Sharon Draper's 'Melting Untouched In My Hands'

In the story Out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper, the major conflict in the story is that Melody cannot speak. This type of conflict is man vs. self because Melody has cerebral palsy. When you have this disease you don’t have control over your muscles. Which means you cannot use the muscles in your mouth to speak. Melody feels trapped in her own world. One example of this is when Melody’s goldfish (Ollie) “hurled” himself out of the bowl. Melody tried to alert her mother by screaming. “Louder. I cried out. I yelled. I screeched.” Her mother still hadn’t come by now so Melody tipped over Ollie’s fish bowl. She only meant to tip over the bowl slightly but she ended up spilling the water everywhere. “ Water splashed everywhere—all over the table,

Characters: Maddie is the main character. Maddie came into the story first and then met Q. Q and her are like brother and sister, they are very close and they help each other when they need some confidence or they need to be convinced that everything is going to be ok. She is very poor and she is homeless, she has a great personality which is very kind and caring. She starts out not super confident in herself but she always stays positive about herself when she is homeless. When she meets Q she becomes very confident in herself because Q shows her how she can get perfect food from the dumpster at the restaurant and she makes a plan for her life. Then she realizes that life may not turn out to be so bad. Her and Q are very nice to each

The girl’s inner characterization resembles a coming of age character. She develops because of the action and her traits as a child are presented in contrast with her traits as a teenager. This contrast is emphasized using the third-person narrator at the beginning of

Countless people today, especially youths, have a hard time fitting in with everyone else and think they need to live and act like a conformist. Many are afraid to express their individuality and stand out because of the fear of being looked upon as weird, different, or even freakish. The student’s at Mica High first looked at Stargirl in this way, but once they became used to her presence, they realised how great her spirit really was. Even though in the middle of the story they started to reject her, at the end she leaves a lasting impression on them all, especially Leo. She dressed in what she wanted to and not what was in style, she had a pet rat that she carried with her everywhere, and she sang and played the ukulele whenever she felt like it.

George Bernard Shaw once said, “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” In the novel Walk Two Moons, written by Sharon Creech, Phoebe encounters external forces that cause her to grow or change.

Every morning for five years, talks about how how a girl is really unconfrtobale with the behavior of one of her neighbor, she would prefer to don't talk to him, or have any interaction with him, she judge him without any reason. Scotty had a disability and she wasn't empathic for that, she instead just thought about how he make her feel .

Our world is more influenced by social pressures now than ever before I feel. Social media is a great thing that connects all of us but sometimes it puts unrealistic expectations in our minds. Like having the body physique a movie star or hitting home runs like Barry Bonds. Judith Lorber’s essay from “Believing is Seeing” argues that society is the reason for the huge differences between men and women; naturally women and men have the same values and wishes but society has created a huge difference in between what is male and female. In the essay “Getting Huge, Getting Ripped’ by Matthew Petrocelli, Trish Oberweis, and Joseph Petrocelli the use of recreational steroids throughout the midwest United States is studied and analyzed. When reading Petrocelli, if you read with the point of view of Lorber you can see how society has pressured people into taking steroids in order to feel more socially acceptable.

If I could talk to Sharon Draper and give her feedback about her book “Out of my Mind”, I would tell her that her style and technique were flawless and could not have been better! She is able to make the characters seem so realistic and since the book follows Melody’s point of view, you are always super scared about what will happen to her.

“ I love this woman and I have to tell her if she laughs she laughs “ said the character Duckie played by Jon Cryer . Duckie is a teenage boy who thinks he can win a girl over by being funny. His crush Andie Walsh played by Molly Ringwald. A poor girl that lives with her unemployed dad and her mom left years before.

Hosang is Korean word which means a “good death” of an old person who dies during sleep without any suffering from disease, not knowing when they die. The Korean traditionally prefer dying not knowing when they die to dying knowing it. However, after I read ‘Tuesday with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom, I think about a predictable death. If people knew when they are going to die, they could prepare for their death. Although I would be scared when I hear about my death, I would like to know when I am going to die because I can make amends, stop things which waste time after knowing when I am going to die to do more valuable things for me at that time, and say goodbye to my family.

In Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”, a mother recalls the life of her first born daughter. She retells the hardships she and her daughter went through to survive it. The main focus, however, are the hardships of the daughter, Emily. These hardships, lack of tender love, attention and over abundant strife in Emily’s life, lead to her being unnoticed and somewhat forgotten. In Emily’s late teenage years, comedy became a way for her to standout. As well, comedy could have been a way to cope with her less than ideal childhood. Psychology might be able to answer whether she utilized comedy to cope or did her personality traits enable her to perform comedy.

He recalls waiting for her in her father’s large brick mansion. He describes her approach as “an extremely faint and pattering footstep like that of a child”. When he first sees her, he describes her as small, shy, and plain; except for her eyes and hair. Her shyness aside, her physical appearance seems to be a stark contrast to her raw, vibrant poetry. While he doesn’t mention it specifically, I think Higginson picked up on her mental state.

The main character Jim is a teenage boy that was raised in an oversized bubble his whole life thanks to an immune deficiency. Jim is a strange and very cautious teenager when it comes to being exposed to the elements of the real world. He is very uneducated to the real world due to lack of exposure and lacks many characteristics that one would typically have at his age. Through time Jim begins to find himself and shows growing determination to find the love of his life, Chloe. Jim eventually builds enough bravery to break out of his sterile protective bubble to

I chose the song Unwritten by Natasha Bendingfield to represent the intense theme of feminism in this novel. This story discusses how women are scrutinised more harshly in the political world for instance how Frankie’s mother, is treated very differently to her male opponents by the media. In the novel, she is nick named ‘the yummy mummy’ continually in the media, as a mock to her being female. The lyrics of the song “We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way” related directly to the theme of feminism, a main theme in this novel. These lyrics portray how Francesca’s mother is expected to encompass femininity and be beyond reprimand on all areas, as the media’s degradation of her increases

Are you suffering from something? Raise up your hand if you did and close your eyes. If someone responded to your suffer with warmth raise down your hand. The music piece I'm performing today is called "Melted".