Laurie Metcalf

normal. I believe the thesis of this novel is that if you’re sexually assaulted, speak up. Many people believe that if you hold the dreadful memory inside of you, soon it’ll just lighten away, but that’s in no way the case. We see that in depth at Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak. The title is the tip off. Melinda’s at a high school party, where Melinda gets raped by Andy Evans, a high school senior student. Melinda got scared so she called the police. Melinda doesn’t speak up and tell her class mates

Fever 1793 Essay By:Garrett H and Aidan G The incident of the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia occurred in 1793. The Yellow Fever was definitely a hard thing to go through, especially Matilda and her family. In the beginning, Mattie is very tenacious but at the end is very spontaneous and brave. We think the theme of Fever is always fighting through hard times because Mattie fights through everything even when she feels like she has nothing. She doesn’t stop even when no one can help. Even

In the book Speak, Melinda was very popular, and happy with her life, until Andy Evans raped her. This traumatic experience changed her forever, and she became mute. In the book speak it explains Melinda’s struggle with herself as she goes threw her years in high school. One example of this is on page 132, when Melinda has self talk with herself. “I think it’s some kind of psychiatric disorder when you have more than one personality in your head. That’s what it feels like when I walk home.” (132

The 1700’s was a time of atrocious actions against slaves, and African-Americans in general. In Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, we see some of these crimes, (at the time these horrible acts were perfectly acceptable along with hitting you wife as seen when Mr. Lockton violently hit Madam), against slaves in the viewpoint of Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl who had not experienced the tribulations most slaves had. One heinous crime in the novel when Madam beat harshly her many slaves with her hands

In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson Melinda is going through a transformation, by explaining it in a form of trees. She is expressing herself not much by the form of speaking, but by the trees she creates in art class. It’s to explain on how she has been at her lowest and highest points in times. She faces all these transformations as from past events and future events in her high school. The majority of these events relate to her tree transformation from lowest to highest points. A big

Is choosing the wrong path to find the real you a bad thing? In a story generally the protagonist pulls on different types of archetypes to learn from their mistakes and be different with those strengths. In the novel, Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist, Tyler needs to go through phases in order to ultimately achieve the goal of self-identity that not necessarily he wants but the society accepts. So the journey begins, with Tyler in the front seat, searching for a person

A person who overcomes antagonistic and unnecessary issues in a mature and powering manor. That is the definition of a hero to me. Someone who is being hurt and sees others hurt from the actions and takes charge and does everything in his power to change it. Someone who puts others before themselves and acts in the most chivalrous way. The definition of a hero is different for everyone. Some one might think of a hero as someone who can lift a car and put it on their back, or gives a dying person

and remain strong between the two people, but if there is no trust then there is a possibility of losing a friend. On the other hand, positive friendships still exist and are the ones to cherish and appreciate the most. The novel Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson is based on a fourteen year-old girl named Melinda, who was sexually assaulted at a summer party. She called the police for help but since none of her friends knew what occurred, they assumed she called to get them all in trouble. This

their stories, or because they are embarrassed by what happened. As these cases turn from simple bullying to a more severe event, this inability to speak up only increases. Laurie Halse Anderson shows this effect with being raped, as well as the emotional damage that goes with it. Through Melinda’s experiences in Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson’s writing reflects the time in which it was written, her views on teens and the adolescent years, and her early life. By learning about Anderson’s past, the

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s 2000 novel Fever 1793, Matilda Cook, the main character, and her family face sickness, death, fear, and mistrust that build them into stronger and more independent characters. The story takes place in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda, also known as Mattie, lives with her mother, Lucille Cook, and works at a coffee shop that Mattie’s grandfather, Polly, their servant, and Eliza, a free black women, work at as well. Polly dies in the beginning of the story, and this is what