Laurie Halse Anderson Essay

Fever 1793 is a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson. It takes place in Philadelphia, when the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 hit. Mattie’s family gets separated from each other, and some never come back from the illness. As a result, Mattie is left with hardships that would change her way of life. By using character development and the story’s epilogue, Laurie Halse Anderson tells the theme that hardships can actually help people’s personality and actions. When her family

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, she struggles

If a rabbit was standing right in front of a wolf, how would that rabbit be feeling? Mostly likely fear. In the book, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Melinda’s comparison of herself to a bunny rabbit and Andy Evans to a wolf symbolizes the fear she experiences when she is near him, her innocence and consequently his damage on her innocence, as well as the fact that he raped her without explicitly stating so. First off, Melinda’s fear. The first time she compared herself to a bunny rabbit, she and

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict with peaceful meanings.” - Ronald Reagen. This is a quote that stands very true for Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Nothing But the Truth, by AVI. In these books, characters have to overcome their own conflicts in their own ways, and whether or not it makes them change for the better. In Fever 1793, Matilda Cook has to overcome and face death head-on, Mrs. Narwin has to deal with a student who ruins her career,

The novel, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a young slave named Isabel set during the American Revolution. The American Revolution was a fight between the Patriots and Loyalists for freedom. Both the Patriots and Loyalists had different ideas of what freedom meant to them. Although it seemed like only the two sides fighting there were others who were also fighting for freedom, slaves, but they fought in a different way. During this time it was very difficult for one person to be able to

In Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, Isabel, a 12-year-old girl along with her younger sister, Ruth, who suffers from epilepsy, work as slaves. After her parents and her owner dies, with no parents or any power whatsoever, Isabel is sold to the Locktons, a powerful, but insolent family. She spends years toiling away with the Lockton family and meets a fellow slave named Curzon, who she befriends, until finally, Madam Lockton surreptitiously sells Ruth upon learning of her epilepsy, declaring she is

enough to be 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

The character Melinda of Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak develop the theme of change throughout the story through her actions, words, and thoughts. First, in the beginning of the novel, Melinda was more isolated than the others because she chose not to communicate with anybody about her conflict and refused to talk to anybody, not even her parents. “One girl nods her head and says way to go. I hope you are okay” (Anderson 197). Melinda never communicated with anybody, verbally. In the end, when

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

Forge is the second novel in the Seeds of America Trilogy, a historical novel series by Laurie Halse Anderson. Geared towards middle-grade readers, the trilogy focuses on the story of Isabel, a 13-year-old African-American slave as she fights for her freedom and that of her younger sister as the events of the American Revolution rage around them. Praised for its historical accuracy and exploring themes of family, race relations in colonial America, and the intersection of major historical events