Laurie Metcalf

“It is my nightmare and I can’t wake up. It sees me. It smiles, it winks.” This quote is said in Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak by the main character Melinda Sordino. Speak is a story about Melinda in her first year of high school and her traumatizing summer before. Andersons novel shows a young girl that struggles with acceptance of peers and overcoming the fear of speaking out. Anderson writes about a young girl who is struggling to speak up about a traumatic event that happened to her the

Melinda Sordino, the narrator in the novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, walks the reader through her freshman year of high school. As the novel starts, the reader knows that everyone is mad at her for an unknown reason, but the reader soon learns that she had called the police during a summer party that she and her friends had gone to. Of course, as there were many high schoolers at the party, peers and her former friends ignored her throughout the beginning of the school year, yet she had a

Harassment, exclusion, physical assault, these things should not have to be suffered by anyone. Well that’s all what speak is about, Melinda, a freshman who is bullied and ignored for calling the police during a summer party. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about, I’m talking about why it’s important to be courageous, and I’m using the book speak, as an example. Put simply, it’s important to be courageous because everyone has to stand up for themselves. It’s important for people

Melinda Sordino, the character in the novel Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson. She is an outcast, coward, and a negative person. Melinda Sordino is an outcast. '' Or I could crawl behind the trash can. Or maybe I could dump my lunch straight into the trash and keep moving right on out the door '' (Anderson 8). This quotation clearly demonstrates that Melinda is an outcast. She cannot even think a person she could sit. On the first day, Melinda gets into the auditorium and everyone divides into

The author Laurie Halse Anderson made the book Speak to show and convey that to let out emotions and feel better about one's self, you have to talk to anoter. Speak tells the story of Melinda Sorindo, a ninth grader at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York. August before her freshman year, Melinda and her closest friends attend a party with seniors and beer. At the party, Melinda feels uncomfortable and out of place. She gulps down a couple beers before walking outside for some fresh air

The protagonist in the novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson is high schooler Melinda Sordino. In the summer before her freshman year, Melinda is abused by an older student. This traumatizing experience turns her friends away from her and drives her into depression. Melinda enters high school at Merryweather High and struggles to find friends, perform well in classes, and even speak. She becomes the school’s freak. Melinda becomes an extremely powerful character as she muddles through depression

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda a young incoming freashman starts off high school depressed and avoided by her classmates and friends. Over the summer Melinda attends a party where she has no choice but to call the police, resulting in all her friends to dismiss and turn against her completely including her best friend Rachel. When Melinda begins high school detached from all of her classmates she tries to befriend Heather, a new student who is unaware of the party conflict.

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

Laurie Halse Anderson shows the reader COURAGE is a theme in ‘Speak’ because on page 9 MELINDA got smacked in the chest with potatoes and tries to storm out when she is stopped by a teacher (MR.NECK) who won't let her out because she is too afraid to tell him what she was doing. She needed COURAGE. Another theme is FEAR, MELINDA has/had a fear of speaking, about anything, about what happened. This is shown on page 97 and 9 when instead of talking and confronting Melinda just runs away; in both

her school thinks they have her figured out, but they may not ever find out the truth if she chooses not to speak. Eventually she begins to change with the help of several people and her own realization of what must be done. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the author uses symbolism and irony to show the main character Melinda’s growth as a person throughout the novel. Anderson shows Melinda’s growth through the use of symbolism. Her growth is greatly symbolized as a tree throughout