In the book “Speak”‚ a girl named Melinda Sordino experiences something very terrifying. The author‚ Laurie Halse Anderson‚ describes how Melinda was raped by an upperclassman that goes to the exact same high school as her. As result‚ Melinda is now scarred and mute‚ even though she wants to speak very badly to someone about her assault. Laurie Halse Anderson uses allusions and archetypes to show the difficulties Melinda faces. Such uses in the book are tree‚ cave‚ lightening‚ and for archetypal
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freshman Melinda Sordino. Everybody in her high school doesn’t like her because last summer she went to a party and called the cops. Ever since she doesn’t speak and has no friends because she doesn’t want to tell anybody the truth. She later on gets the courage to say something because one of her ex-best friends is going out with popular senior named Andy Evans. We find out later in the book that Melinda was raped by Andy at the party. That is why she called the cops. The book is about Melinda trying
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growth and change in their own ways. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak‚ readers are given a mental picture of who they think Melinda Sordino is. “The bus picks up students in groups of four or five…I close my eyes. This is what I’ve been dreading. As we leave the last stop‚ I am the only person sitting alone” (3). What the reader gets is this picture of Melinda Sordino predicting that she’s going to have the worst freshman year ever. What I think a lot of readers don’t pick up on right away
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Print. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about the protagonist Melinda Sordino and her journey through her freshmen year of high school. She started school with no friends but in the end she had more than she thought she would. In school she struggles with paying attention and getting good grade and her home wasn’t much better. She had a mother that was always working and a father that really didn’t care. In the end art helped Melinda through the school year giving her something to lean back on.
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novel Speak details the life story of Melinda Sordino‚ a freshman in high school‚ and how both the traumatic and happy events of her life shape her character. In the summer before entering high school‚ Melinda is invited to a party that changes her life; and it is not for the better. A senior in high school named Andy Evans rapes her‚ and since she is so scared‚ she calls the police‚ they arrive shortly‚ and proceed to break up the party. Throughout Speak‚ Melinda is reassured by a poster of Maya Angelou
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BIBLIOGRAPHY - Anderson‚ Laurie Halse . Speak . New York : Puffin ‚ 1999 . SUMMARY- Melinda Sordino is a just starting her freshman year at Merryweather High School and is not off to a good start . Before school started Melinda attended a party with her best friend which ended in her calling the police for reasons the reader learns throughout the book . Her year starts rough with her friends not speaking with her and her not speaking at all . She begins to become slightly depressed
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Anderson is about an incoming freshman named Melinda Sordino. She’s riding the bus to school but she doesn’t have any friends to sit with. While she’s looking over the crowd of kids on the bus she spots her ex best friend‚ Rachel‚ but even she mouths “I hate you.” After Melinda attends her first few classes she already hates high school. When she gets to Art class she is assigned a subject that she must turn into art for the rest of the year. Melinda receives the word “Tree” and doesn’t understand
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Speak Yu-Feng‚ Chen English B Period B 10/17/2013 "Speak" is about Melinda Sordino‚ an angst-filled freshman who is hated by all of her "best friends" because she called the cops during the end of the summer senior party. Everyone got busted. Her parents aren’t much help either‚ always fighting about what’s best for Melinda and communicating through post-it notes on the refrigerator wall. When the new semester began‚ there are many kind of clans were formed‚ but she is not belong to any group
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fell in love with the storyline and the concept due to the fact that it was so relatable. In the novel they give us the impression that the setting is in modern day Syracuse. The main character and the person that tells most of the story is Melinda Sordino. In the novel she is a struggling teen that had to deal with getting raped at a party a summer before her first day of high school. At the party she ends up getting drunk and meeting another character named Andy Evans. After getting raped she
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only to teenagers‚ but to adults as well. If you are or have been a victim of sexual assault‚ speak up‚ you dont have to go through this on your own." In My opinion‚ Speak should not be banned. Too many young girls face the same situation Malinda Sordino found herself in. They need to know that by speaking up they are "no longer victims but are survivors" of rape or sexual assault. Silence wont do any good‚ and people need to know that. Speak has an important message that needs to be heard. So why
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