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McGuire writes about the rape of twenty four year old Recy Taylor in 1944. Recy was on her way home from the rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama when her nightmare started. Seven white men that

The book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson is about the struggles of a slave's life. In the beginning of the story we meet Isabel and Ruth whose parents are dead. They are African-American slaves. They become slaves for a planation, small farm, and a city. In different places such as a planation, small farm, and a city they had different life styles.

Witness by Karen Hesse brings 1924 Vermont, and the horrific events that occurred there into life with her award winning book Witness. She shows what it would be like to live in vermont under the oppression of the K.K.K. One of the ways that she achieves this is by telling the story through several citizens in a vermont town. Hesse’s most significant skill as a writer is creating believable characters.

Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet, who came to national prominence in 1940’s to 1990’s. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. Throughout her lifetime Gwendolyn Brooks faced many trials and tribulations. Brooks had a real talent in her ability to express reflective human emotions in such logical expressions. Truthfully, She creates a horrific imagery that abortions are terrible; and in the poem “The Mother “, she expresses the pitiless emotions of anxiety over her aborted children, her perspective is regretful of the consequences of her actions, and she mirrors herself to reality to show the missed opportunities of a child that women who

Plot Summary: Feed is a book about Titus, a teenager with a feed, or transmitter implanted in his brain. He and his friends live their lives by suggestions, like advertisement from the feed. Titus and his friends go to the moon for spring break and while they are there Titus meets a girl named Violet Durn. They go to a nightclub and end up getting hacked by a man from the anti-feed group.

The novel Speak by Laurie Hales Anderson shows Melinda Sordino struggling through the year, and her recovery from the painful memory of getting raped at the party in summer break. In the beginning of the story, the story shows how bad Melinda feels and then she changes and starts growing and at the final stage of the story Melinda becomes a strong hard oaktree-like person. In the book Speak, the author symbolizes the tree to show Melinda’s change from being an outcast to being an accepted person; this also supports the theme: time can help heal one’s painful memories.In the beginning of the year, her trees looked like trees that existed nowhere on earth, but by the end of the year, her trees were breathing and looked as if they had shot up

In the book“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is “Melinda Sordino who is a freshmen in highschool that is having tough times fitting in after she called the cops on a party she was in and now almost everyone hates her, but then along the way she finds some friends who help her out. The message of this story is that no matter what you do you can always come through and defeat your fears of high school.

In the book Speak Laurie Halse Anderson is saying that in our daily lives friends are great to have, but you can’t depend on them always being there for you. Such as when Laurie Halse Anderson wrote about Melinda and her new friend Heather. Heather was fun at first but then backed stabbed Melinda later. Laurie Anderson wrote about Melinda’s friends leaving her after Melinda called the cops at the party because she was raped. Her friends didn’t bother asking why she did, they just stopped talking to her. Laurie Halse Anderson wrote about Melinda hiding and not opening up to anyone. Now this was where I was saying that Laurie Anderson was writing about it’s good to have a friends around. If Melinda had just one friend to talk to she wouldn’t

How do you think a person with a baby on its way have to come of age? Well this question is related to two people named Bobby and Nia but the only thing is that they are both still teens in high school. They are both in a book called The First Part Last by Angela Johnson. I'm going to talk about how they are going to come of age throughout the book by symbols.

Speak By: Laurie Halse Anderson Characters: Melinda Sordino: Melinda is the protagonist of Speak. She is the narrator of the story and is in the ninth grade. She begins the ninth grade friendless and depressed. She once had a lot of friends but they ditched her after she called the cops at a party because she was raped.

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.

The poem “The Mother” written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945, is a poem that focuses on the immeasurable losses a woman experiences after having an abortion. The poems free verse style has a mournful tone that captures the vast emotions a mother goes through trying to cope with the choices she has made. The author writes each stanza of the poem using a different style, and point of view, with subtle metaphors to express the speaker’s deep struggle as she copes with her abortions. The poem begins with, “Abortions will not let you forget” (Brooks 1), the first line of the poem uses personification to capture your attention. The title of the poem has the reader’s mindset centered around motherhood, but the author’s expertise with the opening line, immediately shifts your view to the actual theme of the poem. In this first line the speaker is telling you directly, you will never forget having an abortion. Brooks utilizes the speaker of the poem, to convey that this mother is pleading for forgiveness from the children she chose not to have.

Kindertransport, a modern classic by Diane Samuels, cleverly illustrates the mechanisms of a mother/daughter relationship alongside themes of post-modernism, feminism and identity. Nine months before the outbreak of WWII, 10 000 unaccompanied Jewish children were sent to England as a precautionary measure due to the Kristallnacht. One of them was Eva, daughter of Helga, sent unwillingly because of her mother’s wishes to keep her alive. Presently, Evelyn is sending her daughter to college. Old memories resurface as Evelyn is forced to confront – her childhood as Eva.

Out of the Dust is a verse novel by Karen Hesse published in 1997. It won the Newbery Medal in 1998. The book is set in Oklahoma the years 1934–1935. The book is about a family of farmers during years of the Dust Bowl. The books main character Billie Jo's and is about her life and struggles.

Books come in all genres, lengths, and styles. Realistic fiction chapter books offer the most depth and insight into the real world. They often cover the good and the bad in the world, which can be left out in other genres of literature. One such book is Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson which was originally published in 1999. This book has won many awards and has been named to the top of many honor lists. Some of these honors include a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, a Booklist Editor’s Choice, a National Book Award Finalist, and a New York Times Bestseller. This book follows the story of Melinda during her freshman year of high school. She has a rough time in school due to her depression which started after she was sexually assaulted at a party