Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the message the author is trying to portray is that speaking and conveying your emotions is vital to expressing feelings.Talking to someone releases a sense of relief for now somebody else knows and that specific information is not as powerful to only the protagonist. Opening up to someone releases how the protagonist feels, which is vital because then that someone will help Melinda get past the event that occurred. If Melinda doesn’t speak up and convey

Melinda’s Cherished Melody Fighter by Christina Aguilera represents Melinda in the novel Speak. Because she becomes stronger and finds her voice, she was getting blamed by a person who can’t accept their problems, and she was getting taken advantage of. The book Speak is written by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book is about a girl named Melinda that was raped by a senior in her school named Andy Beast. Melinda was misunderstood and judged in many ways. She had lost all her friends because of the incident

Culture plays a huge part in how people are raised, and their perspective of the world we live in. Everyone sees the world differently based on their beliefs. The author of “Speak” (by Laurie Halse Anderson), show Melinda’s culture through rhetoric techniques such as imagery, allusion, and tone. The author uses imagery to show Melinda’s culture by using how she views certain rooms or areas in her eyes. Melinda describes her room as ‘belonging to an alien’ “my room looks like it belongs to an alien

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

however, couldn’t speak to anyone and chose to stay silent instead. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, having been raped by high school senior Andy Evans, has experienced

something, or just drawn it for fun? Well Melinda uses her drawings to express her feelings and get away from the world. I think the in the story “SPEAK,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, She uses Melinda's artwork and the tree to express the fact that Melinda got raped and afterwards, when she looked up... and saw... a tree. Within “SPEAK,” Laurie Halse Anderson uses Melinda’s artwork to express Melinda. At the Beginning of the story Melinda gets a year long art project to draw a tree. At the beginning,

In Speak, a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a teenage girl named Melinda, who is miserable in life. Melinda goes to a party, gets drunk and is sexaully assaulted by a older student. In Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson employs the closet as a symbol in order to create deeper meaning. In “ Stupid Stupid,” Melinda sneak into her closet after school and takes a long nap. On page 130, Melinda sneaks into her closet and finds herself there nap for hours. Anderson writes:

English Summer Assignment Part 1 – Precise Laurie Halse Anderson’s fiction novel “Speak” relates the story of a girl from Syracuse, New York. This story surrounds Melinda Sordino who was victimized by Andy Evans at a high school party. She was afterwards labeled an outcast within her school after calling the police to the barn where they all were, getting many of her friends and classmates in trouble for underage drinking. Since none of Melinda’s friends were aware of the rape, they all believed

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Is full of symbols that connect to the real world. Symbolism is important when writing a book because it helps the reader connect and relate to the main character easier and gives the reader a better view of what the main character is or may be going threw. For instance Melinda’s thanksgiving turkey bone sculpture is a clear symbol of her family troubles and her tree in Mr. Freemen’s class changed further on in the book due to her slowly opening up and coming

in their groups. Another thing is that they think they don’t fit in with their friends. Their friends are going to tell them something and they will actually do it then after that their friends laugh at them or make fun of them. Laurie Halse Anderson the author of “Speak” is saying that peer pressure is dangerous and can be more harmful when their is more than one person doing the pressuring. Melinda friend Rachel left Melinda to eat by herself because Rachel friends said that she can not eat with

remain silent after calling 911 following the attack. Laurie Halse Anderson, author of "Speak," illustrates overcoming this life-changing event through Mel's reserved, artistic, and strong-willed characteristics. Mel is the protagonist of this story. She has faced many traumatic situations, which have led her to get completely lost in her thoughts. Over time, she went completely silent, and that is how she coped. Since Mel chose not to speak for half of her ninth-grade school year, it makes her

understand that being in their cliques won’t do them any good because all it will do is separate those who have been best friends since the end of time causing social anxiety for others. “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson wrote an explicit book of what is the true meaning on how you could change your ways when you speak up instead of staying quiet. So, How does being silent affect the individual themselves? This induces the Students to have trust issues, being mentally corrupted, and to never be true to

arbitrary and irrational.” One such challenged book is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, which was “banned from an eighth-grade classroom in Arizona due to profanity, sexual content, and rape theme” (Lesesne and Chance 48). Even though it presents difficult topics, Speak could be a benefit to students in a

think Laurie Halse Anderson,the author of ‘’Speak,’’ is saying that a teenager will will do anything to be cool and have friends. In the book, Melinda is influenced because her friends and her attend a party and she gets drunk to try and be cool (Halse).I have had a friend who experienced peer pressure and my friend was peer pressured to drink alcohol and to smoke weed.My friend and Melinda have something in common because they both drank alcohol because they wanted to be cool(Halse).Melinda

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character, Melinda Sordino experiences a disturbing event over the summer of her eighth grade year. She was sexually assaulted by Andy Evans at a party. Melinda nearly loses her mind totally as she began shutting down on all fronts. However, she slowly recovered from her traumatizing experience, and eventually learned how to live with what happened. To begin with, toward end of Melinda's eighth grade year she goes to a party and becomes intoxicated