Textual Analysis Examples

Heather tells Melinda that they can’t be friends anymore and Melinda gets mad because she feels like she is the one who took Heather under wing since she was brand new to the area and didn’t know anyone. Now Heather goes to sit with “The Martha” group and Melinda is left to sit by herself at lunch every day. Melinda starts getting depressed that she has nobody to talk to and she starts skipping class and getting bad grades, her parents and teachers notice this new change in her but think she is just trying to get attention from them so they just sort of ignore it but her art teacher doesn’t and encourages her to speak and show her expressions through her artwork. Melinda then becomes friends with a guy names David Petrakis who is her lab partner in science and he is pushes Melinda to speak up. A little while later Melinda sees her old friend from middle school, Rachel start dating Andy Evans, the boy who raped her and she wants to worn her but doesn’t want to speak so she tells her by passing notes to her while they are in the

Freeman, Melinda’s art teacher. According to Melinda Mr. Freeman’s first appearance is unpleasant, but has a welcoming attitude. “But he smiles at us as we file into class” (Anderson 10). On the first day of school Mr. Freeman tells the class to find their “Soul”. He wants all of his students to find their inner soul and become their true selves. Mr. Freeman is one of the few people to help Melinda speak again. He is also one of the few that tries to understand her affliction and troubles. He is always there to listen to Melinda and give advice to her when she needs it.

The main character of “Speak” is a freshman girl named Melinda Sordino, who attends Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York. Before going into high school, Melinda and her friends all went to a party over the summer. Just like any high school party, there was drinking, smoking and boys. Being given attention by any high school boy when you’re a freshman is like a dream come true, except not to Melinda. At the party Melinda got pulled aside and taken away by Andy Evans, a senior. While they were together, Andy raped Melinda. In a panic, Melinda not knowing what else to do, called the police. However, this ultimately busted the party and caused every there as well as her closest friends to reject her. She then started high school with

Intended for the enjoyment of the present-day youth generation, the 2007 comedy film Knocked Up deals with more than just comedic issues. Technically introduced as a romantic comedy, this film serves more to its comedic orientation. With awkward romance and stoner mannerisms, the laughs are plentiful for the intentional audience of Knocked Up. However, as the audience is served its fill of laughter, issues are presented that rarely grace the silver screen. The director of this film, Judd Apatow, utilizes his dominion and influence over the audience to introduce the dominant ideology of Knocked Up. As seen in his previous film, The 40 Year Old Virgin, it is evident that the

When I first signed up for University 101 back over the summer I thought that this class was a waste of time, and was just an easy credit. But I was wrong. University 101 ended up being my most demanding class and I was upset because I felt like none of the journals, activities, and discussions were useful or even worth my time. But I was wrong again. My UNV 101 class was different from the rest, it was different because I was a part of Opportunity Network. Opportunity Network has three instructors and I was very grateful to have Ms. Ebony to be my UNV 101 professor. Ms. Ebony and I became extremely close during this semester. Ms. Ebony encourage me to do nursing again ,even when I wanted to give up and start all over because I wasn’t doing

It is Melinda’s first day in high school and she has no friends. She gets on the bus and she sits down by herself. When she gets to school there is an assembly. She goes in the gym and sits on the bleachers.

Thank you for the talk with me last week. I've come to realize that the matter at hand has nothing to do with JT or Donna, but with Pastor Edwards. I'm meeting with Morry Kemple this week to talk about concerns regarding leadership that the deacons need to address for our church to move forward. I ask that you pray for the situation and pray for me, that if there be any pretense in me, it will be brought forward. Thank

I think this activity helped us a lot because we all had to give a closer look to our figures. For our intermediate draft we were asked to describe two rhetorical appeals only. However, for this activity we had to describe all of them. Therefore, I learned that all of them interact in order to convey the stakeholder’s goals. They all overlap so that the stakeholder conveys its message. Activities like this one furthers our analysis and helps us look beyond the image; for example, it makes us ask ourselves questions like: Why? How? Where? instead of just describing WHAT happened. Regarding my issue, I learned that it’s not as simple as just changing the laws in order to benefit migrants. It would require a change on people’s ideas as well.

Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Over the summer, she and her friends went to a party and Melinda ended up calling the police, causing her friends and everyone at the party to reject her. Melinda's only friend is Heather, a new student, who tries to get Melinda involved in the group called the Marthas just to try to gain more popularity. Melinda, however, is not interested in gaining popularity and spends a lot of her time in an abandoned janitor's closet at the school. This janitor’s closet soon becomes her “safe place”. While she is becoming depressed using self-harm and reliving the past she is silent she won’t speak to hardly anybody not even

The second thing Melinda learns about high school is that people are reckless. That is proved when she gets hit with food by a senior. But before she

Throughout my time in english 110 I have written an analysis essay, a research paper, and an opinion editorial piece. Two of which I have never written before. At the beginning of the semester I thought a good writer was someone who used good word choice and who could use an effective writing theme for an essay. I was so utterly wrong, a good writer is someone who can evoke emotion, connect ideas and effectively relate to others. They use peers for feedback and always revise their work. A good writer is someone who believes that their work is never finished, it is more than just someone who can tie a few ideas back into their original thesis statement. As I grew as a writer in this class, I have come to the belief that I now posses a few of

Shawn Torrent was sitting in his math class at Palm beach k-12 school, he looked up from his work to see that his teacher, Mrs. Clarke, was no longer writing a problem on the board, or even in the classroom. Shawn looked around the room, as a few other students started to realize that she wasn’t there. Some of the kids from Shawn’s class, including his best friend Cody Mitchell, stood up and walked to the hallway. Shawn followed everyone into the hallway, where he noticed kids from other classes had done the same. He had asked multiple people what was going on, but got no response from anyone. Then Shawn looked down the hallway and saw Alana Morrison come out of her advanced algebra class. He had always liked Alana, but they had never really

Melinda is a freshman at Merryweather high school. Freshman year is already nerveracking enough, but in Melinda's case, nerves mean a whole different thing. Over the summer, Melinda and a few of her friends snuck out to a party. Something makes Melinda to call the police, which busts the party and causes several people to get arrested. Those who got arrested go to/are affiliated with Merryweather high. So now, she is hated throughout the school. On her first day, Melinda walks in with no friends. Eventually she makes a friend named Heather. But Heather and Melinda aren’t going on the same path in high school. Melinda doesn’t seem to be interested in popularity (she would rather be hanging out in the janitor's closet or art class) while heather is, and wants her to join in on trying to climb the social ladder.

Melinda Sordino, a freshman at Merryweather High school in Syracuse, New York begins school off to an unwelcoming start. All of her friends now ex friends hate her and are ignoring her. She ruined an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, due to being sexually assaulted. Melinda meets a girl named Heather and become good friends. In the exposition, Melinda gets her freshman year schedule and realizes she’s dislikes almost all the teachers and also realizes she is an outcast. She is a very awkward, shy person to be around because she doesn’t know what to say ever since of the incident at the party.

“Time for school Rosy.” said Riley as she went to Rosy’s room to wake her up. After Rosy got dressed, Riley drove her to school at East High School. As she takes a seat in Mrs. Rogers’ math class, the bell rings. Mrs. Rogers is about to close the door till Adam Matthews, the most popular guy and one of the best athletes in school, sprints in. Mrs. Rogers said “You are late once again Adam. You are failing my class, so I have no option, but to assign you a tutor to help with your studies starting