Speak

Laurie Halse Anderosn has written a book which is considered as a trauma novel “speak”. Usually anger is a phase that begins with madness and ends with regret, but in this book anger will be tackled in different way, Melinda’s anger starts with silence and ends with speaking. In other words it’s starts with fear and ends with triumph over self. Over the course of the novel silence struggling with anger is leading to speak. Anderson incorporated all themes in anger direction with different techniques

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is first-person narrative about overcoming our habits and misfortunes. It takes place at Merryweather High over the course of a year. The main character, Melinda, is a fourteen year-old, who is just starting high school. She is introduced, at first, as someone who doesn’t speak to anyone, almost, at all. All the other people in the high school seem to detest her. They say hateful things to her and throw objects at her. She seems not bothered by any of this. She is

In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, the main character, faces struggles in Merryweather High that the average student does not face. Melinda has been sexually assaulted by a senior boy and has never told anyone about it, which is leaving her failing classes, lonely, and depressed. As high school drags on, her lab partner, David Petrakis, helps her find the strength to speak again. He does so by encouraging her, being a friend, and inspiring her. To begin, David helps Melinda speak again

Angelou. This statement also aligns to a 1999 contemporary classic novel, Speak, where a young freshman, Melinda Sordino, faces isolation and depression to an event that occurred over the summer, one that only she knows about. In the novel, Melinda hangs up a poster of Maya Angelou in her make-shift janitor’s closet hangout. Laurie Halse Anderson uses Maya Angelou as a figure for Melinda to learn and change by in the novel Speak. Melinda could learn from Angelou that she can stand up and rise up from

`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

comes when it is needed most. Shakespeare also displays that courage makes up for the strength that is absent in arduous situations. I agree with Shakespeare's message he is conveying in entirety. In the novels, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the courageous acts are like one lone star lighting up the entire night sky. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, courage can be found in every chapter and on almost every page of this book. Virtually every

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the message the author is trying to portray is that speaking and conveying your emotions is vital to expressing feelings.Talking to someone releases a sense of relief for now somebody else knows and that specific information is not as powerful to only the protagonist. Opening up to someone releases how the protagonist feels, which is vital because then that someone will help Melinda get past the event that occurred. If Melinda doesn’t speak up and convey

fraught with feelings of rejection, seemingly unresolvable personal turmoil, social problems, school and family issues, etc. Indeed one value of reading is to see and better understand some aspect of ourselves through studying others. The reading of SPEAK, a somewhat controversial book because of its subject mater – rape --, is a worthwhile endeavor in any middle school classroom and offers many valuable life lessons to young teens. One of the many lessons, and Melinda’s main focus at school, is art

their struggles. One will mature once they go through difficult problems in their lives. Solving problems and forgetting about sad times will help one grow as a person. In the classic story The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, the realistic fiction novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and the dystopian sci-fi novel The 5th Wave By Rick Yancey, the characters are put into a situation where they are forced to come of age by coming across complications in their lives involving friends, family,

Melinda’s Isolation The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a girl who was raped at a party and her journey through isolation,depression, and coming to terms with what happened. This book has many delicate,fragile, and important themes, but the most important is the obvious isolation throughout the book. Melinda’s isolation is obvious because of how school society treats her, Heather not being an actual friend, and her parents obvious neglect of their own daughter. The first part of the