The Use Of Voice In Lindsey Hunter's Out There

Immediately after we are born, we start picking up sounds; the sound of our mother’s voice, the music playing in the elevator on the way to the car, and the happy cheers from a small child seeing their new sibling for the first time. We are always listening–picking up on conversations not meant for our ears, eavesdropping on the gossip of the adult world, and finding the meaning in the portentous silence. From all these auditory stimuli, we piece together the world around us to better understand what is happening to us, around us, and the secret happenings that were not for us to know. Great writers are the ones who listen and say nothing–who take it all in and save their classified information for a day when all the right words flow and form one epic story of the wondrous world we live in.

"Sometimes a Voice" by Don McKay describes the want to rise above a current state. The first stanza introduces this idea as a voice wanting to be more than a voice. The second stanza takes the idea even further and places the reader inside of a situation, almost like a story. Furthermore, figurative language is used constantly by McKay to help get this theme into the reader's head. Even in the first few lines, McKay employs vivid imagery and personification to heighten the effect. The voice "wants not to be voice any longer,"(li. 2) He also describes how a voice "will hearken back to breath, or even farther" (li. 6) and is sometimes "a flight path still looking for its bird" (li. 8-9).

The book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of high-school freshman, Melinda Sordino. After busting an end-of-summer party, she’s taunted and teased by her peers because she won’t give reason as to why she called the police. She soon slips into depression and starts her freshman year off in “all the wrong ways.” Melinda needed help. Help with confidence. Help with her mentality. Help in general. Throughout the book, very few characters try to help Melinda but one character in particular stands out. Mr. Freeman.

People in society can have interesting views on issues around the world, these views on society are best conveyed through distinctive voices as it evokes feelings from the listener and allows them to relate to the situation through their own personal experiences.

Students in Merryweather High school struggle to 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 themselves. Because of these it doesn’t allow something like for example the First Amendment Freedom of speech, this makes me ask what has our world come to?

Throughout this fragment of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson portrays Melinda with an introvertive voice. Melinda is having a hard time warming up to her new high school. The excerpt starts off with Melinda trying to find a place to sit in the lunchroom. “There’s that new girl, Heather, reading by the window. I could sit across from her. Or I could crawl behind a trash can.” (Paragraph 2) Melinda would rarther hide and go unnoticed than interact with other students. This quote shows us that she’s willing to take great measures to avoid being observed. Another example of diction was when Melinda was seen without a hallway pass by Mr. Neck, and when she was asked to explain herself, she just thinks to herself: “It is easier to not say anything… Nobody

Every day, people make noise whether it be gibberish or intellectual thinking. It comes to many of us naturally and we use our voices all the time to communicate with others, to sing, to yell, and to ….. But many of us are left to ask, what is voice? Voice is a way to express yourself intellectually, make other minds think for themselves, and analyze the world around them causing change in society.

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson tells the terrible highschool experience of freshman, Melinda Sordino. She describes her feelings as she walks through the hall, people staring at her as though she were some sort of horrid creature, for calling the police at a party over the summer. Melinda Sordino however never told anyone what had really happened to her on that night. She was raped by a classmate, Andy Evans, during the party. Throughout the whole book Melinda refers to Andy Evans as “IT” because of the fear that he has bestowed upon her after this life changing incident.

In the novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is the 14 year old girl who was raped at an end-of-summer party. She finds herself struggling with her life and adjusting to what had happened. Melinda trudges through her freshman year of high school, being constantly reminded of the unspeakable experience. The only thing that gets her through her days, is art. Art gives Melinda the ability to grow mentally and physically stronger, allowing her to open up about her incident, accept what had happened, and confront who she is afraid of most.

Underneath the sound of my voice is a song, “Seminole Wind.” If I still myself long enough to stop bringing my own voice and words to life, the song gives me images. The scenery that unfolds in my mind’s eye belongs to the memories of a young girl, who was so confused.

Her voice can be clearly seen and heard by the structure of her sentences, especially at the beginnings. “So I did my reading not in the law library, but in a library at the graduate dorm, upstairs where it was very quiet, because apparently nobody else there studied. So I would go there at night after dinner.” (Jordan L5-7). More often than not, writers tend to write what they think readers want to hear.

become a tedious mass of words. Voice is a logical facet of writing which, when

Do you ever feel insecure about your body? You can feel unconfident about yourself because a unforgettable memory in your life.

Judith Bradford and Crispin Sartwell in their essay “Voiced Bodies/Embodied Voices” helps articulate the difficulties of being heard. One voicing their opinions to others is not going to always work as planned because of the many biases of others as well as the social construct of society. Bradford and Sartwell explain the three conditions that allow individuals to have their voices heard. Physically being in a position where one can speak to certain people is one of the conditions. This notion means that if people are physically in an area where there is an agreement being made, they can have the ability to voice their opinion since they are present at the event. Another condition is if one has the ability to speak. Words and phrases need

In ‘The Dare’ by Roger Hoffman, the speaker’s voice is well-spoken and the story is set in a past event in the narrator’s life, rather than something currently happening. It shows his former personality, a more insecure and go with the flow kid, trying desperately to fit in. He was always pegged as the ‘Teacher’s Pet’ and the “fussed over smart kid.” He was never sure of his place in the social pyramid of is school, and always followed along, and was dared along with his ‘crew.’ He was more scared of what the social consequences of not doing the dare, than the physical consequences of what it entailed. It won him “the approval I [he] never got for just being smart.’ In paragraph four, the speaker talks about his current life in the adult world,