Laurie Metcalf

Have you ever felt so so trapped you could not find the strength to share something? Speak is eye opening and heart wrenching novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson. It tells the story of a girl named Melinda who starts her first year of high school with no friends and a big secret. Her secret? She was a victim of sexual assault committed by a high school senior the summer before her freshman year. Melinda is a dynamic character who changes physically, mentally, and emotionally. As the novel progresses

In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino experiences something that is almost impossible to forget: rape. After sexually assaulted by a senior as an 8th grader, the one thing she needs, someone to talk to, becomes absent in her life when all of her friends leave her. Many other turning points occur during the story that change and affect her identity. The major turning points that affect her identity are being raped in a field at a party, being attacked again in a closet at her school

Laurie Halse Anderson wrote Fever 1793. Fever is about a fourteen year old girl named Mattie Cook who lives with her mother and grandfather above her family’s coffee shop. In 1793, Yellow Fever broke out in Philadelphia people didn't know what it was, but when it got Mattie’s mother she had to escape with her grandfather to the country and leave the city. That same day she was kicked to the crib with her grandfather and that is when her survival skills kicked in. Mattie came back to the city surviving

Have you ever spent nights where you slept with hot tears rolling down your cheeks? Days where you wake up with the same nightmare as yesterday? Imagine that all you desired was someone to be beside you, to have a friend. “Speak”, by Laurie Hase Anderson reveals the bitter life of a high school outcast, Melinda Sordino. This story uncovers how Melinda manages to confess an appalling truth to a group of friends that despised her ever since she called the cops at an 8th-grade summer party. Melinda

Speak, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. What helps Melinda find her voice? Everyone hated Melinda because of what happened in summer, but no one knew the truth. During the summer everything became a nightmare for Melinda. She was too scared to defend herself. Melinda

Have you ever been thinking like what is it to live in a town where there really isn't good doctors and there is a really bad illness that kills many people that's what happens in the book Fever 1793. So in the book Fever 1793 There is the main people in the story there is Matilda, Grandfather, Matilda's mother and Eliza. In the book there was this illness called yellow fever that was in philadelphia that killed many different people and back in they day the doctors won't like what we have today

Dystopian and other science fiction genres literature often critique society in meaningful ways that give the novels greater depth than might be expected of books written for younger audiences. Recently, “dystopian novels set in some dark, post-nuclear fallout future have dominated the young adult—better known as YA—bestseller lists” (Donston-Miller). The line between age groups in some of these novels also blur as adults latch on the increasingly complex themes and characters in modern science

The reason why most people don't have hope is because they think it's going to mess up things and make things worse. In the book fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, the 2 main characters Mattie (Matilda) cook and Eliza. Which are both in the world of Philadelphia of yellow fever. When grandfather dies and mother gets the sickness. And both of them try to survive this deadly virus/disease. It might not be a likely thing that Mattie would do but she has hope that things will get better. Hope creates

in school. This evolved into an obsession by both girls, causing problems not only for friends and family, but for themselves as well. Cassie’s death haunts Lia throughout the story and seeks literally as well as figuratively. In Winter Girls, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Lia Overbrook demonstrates her addiction to weight loss as a way to cope with her mental instability by concealing her weight and making reckless decisions. Lia’s craze for extreme weight loss

`In the novel Speak, the author Laurie Halse Anderson, uses the main character, Melinda, to show how communication is very important when it comes to maintaining healthy relationships. One way Melinda shows this is by explaining that there are two sides to people, that are always contradicting each other. This idea of communication can also be represented through Melinda opening up in her artwork in school, which allows the reader to really see what she is feeling. One other reason this can be seen