Speak Character Analysis

The story brings to the forefront on how parents need to anticipate the family needs and take proactive steps to ensure healthy family dynamics during any stressful or critical situation. A family that has functional dynamics has the ability to offer support, concern and love to each other when a chronic conflict or

I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, one the finest university in the country. Dr. Castro continued by saying that he learned that Mr. Brooks office hours are from 9am to 1pm and how “cool” it sounded to him. I was surprised how many people attended the event. I was fortunate to find a seat. David Brooks mentioned how he has some remote roots in the Central Valley because his father grew in Chowchilla, CA but Mr. Brooks grew in New York.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

Family dynamics can have a positive effect on child’s development because the child will feel settle and have a positive input into their lives and good support to help them develop and achieve what they want to achieve, this has a positive effect on their behaviour to. If family dynamics are negative then this have a negative affect on their developments such as divorce because the child may be spending time at different house and having one parent missing so they will feel unsettled and not able to concentrate on things. They may also experience missing one of their parents of relatives being in prison.

1. In Speak, Anderson uses the ever-changing mascot to show that things are always altering to try to please people, but it is often not the solution. It also shows that there is no stability in Melinda's life and mind. The author uses the changing of the school's mascot is a source of humor because of the constant change are idiotic. “We pass the janitors painting over “Merryweather High – Home of the Trojans.” The Trojans are now the Blue Devils. The school board thinks “Trojans” didn’t send a strong abstinence.” (4) This brings humor because when you think of the word “Trojans” you think of the condom brand which again is an idiotic mistake of the principle to make. The school changed the mascot again from the blue devils

The contemporary classic novel Speak, profounds a girl, Melinda Sordino, entering freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Unlike regular students, Melinda isolates herself from the society after a devastating event that she had experienced. Through her perspective, we enter her world of depression as she struggles her way through the school year. From her eyes we see the way she sees life, hear the ways others described her and enter her mind on how she thinks of the world. On a journey of gaining back herself, bad things turn worse, as that one person enters her life again. ‘It’, who made her fall into misery, ‘It’ who destroyed her once happy life. Melinda fights not only with herself, but It, the school, the world. The only thing that she feels comfortable in doing is art, where she drew trees to Anderson will definitely make you laugh throughout her book, however along holds undeniable sadness as we watch Melinda heals her way through her trauma that doesn’t seem to leave her.

“People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life,” - (Bo Bennett). In today’s society dysfunctional homes have been a major issue in the United States. Many people hope that once they leave home, they will leave their family and their childhood problems behind. However, many people find that they experience similar problems, as well as similar feelings and relationship patterns, long after they have left the family environment. In the eyes of Americans today, children grow up in family environments which help them feel worthwhile, valuable, and appreciated by their family. According to experts at University of Illinois,“Ideally, children grow up in family environments which help them feel worthwhile

A family is defined as a group of people who are somehow related. A family relationship either can negatively or positively affect that child physically, mentally, and or socially when they are older. It may even affect how they treat people. Melinda is a teenage girl who went through problems like victim of raped, depression, considered an outcast, and high school all together. What if a child felt no one wanted to listen, maybe they had no way out, - or even that they couldn’t speak up?

How you communicate and develop strengths, and battle concerns grows and transforms over the years, allowing each individual to partake in a new approach everyday. Positivity and optimism are important in family development, to influence effective communication and maintain healthy and positive relationships. Whether near or far, family is always there for you, and whether they live next door or across the world, it is valuable to hold that definition of family in your heart. Know that what they mean to you is something that only you can feel and cherish for

After reading the information about my style (C/DS) I feel it accurately describes many traits I possess. The traits that stood out the strongest were mainly traits associated with Cautious but I can also see how the Supportive and Dominant traits influence my personality. The hardest part was to weight how strongly the two secondary traits influence my main trait of Cautious. It was interesting to know only 15% of people have two secondary traits that support and influence their primary behavior trait.

Over the last few weeks, I have been reading Just Listen by Sarah Dessen; I am on page 72. Just Listen is a novel about navigating the drama, relationships, and mistakes one endures throughout high school. Annabel Greene is a Lakeview model who appears to be everything teenage girls want to be: pretty and popular. There are many perks to living the life Annabel does; however, nobody really knows that the smile in her modeling photos is a mask, hiding all of the aspects of Annabel’s life that are falling apart. After Annabel is accused of cheating with her best friend, Sophie’s, boyfriend, and it seems as if the whole school wants nothing to do with her. On top of being an outcast, Annabel has to deal with the fact that her older sister, Whitney,

In the novel Catch Me If You Can by Frank William Abagnale, Frank is a well defined static character. Even though he faces different challenges throughout the novel, he remains the same a the end of the story as he was in the beginning. Being said this, he still continued to run away from his problems and did cons. He is a confident individual who ran away from home at a young age to find a life for himself. Frank is a smart, young and charismatic boy. During his early teen years, his parents started to go through a divorce, which left him torn between whom to choose to stay with. After learning about the divorce that was about to take place, Frank decides to runaway. Frank states, “One June morning of 1964, I woke up and knew it was time to go.

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In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, the main character, faces struggles in Merryweather High that the average student does not face. Melinda has been sexually assaulted by a senior boy and has never told anyone about it, which is leaving her failing classes, lonely, and depressed. As high school drags on, her lab partner, David Petrakis, helps her find the strength to speak again. He does so by encouraging her, being a friend, and inspiring her.