Journal Response To Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

In “Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is Melinda the setting is in Merryweather high school her situation is she is alone. Some people are Ivy, Heather, Melinda, Rachel, Mr Freeman, Mr. Neck, and Hair women. She has no friends, she is an outcast. Melinda can talk to her parents, her teachers, and her friends but she doesn't for a long time but does later.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a book about a girl named Melinda Sordino. In the beginning of this book the audience meets Melinda as she is the main character and she describes her first day of high school starting with an assembly. Throughout the book you read about her life but she goes back to the past recalling of something that happened at the end of the summer; in a couple of instances she comes across someone that she refers to as “IT”. When reading you don't know who this “IT” is but it is developed over the story by her having flashbacks to that night or dropping a hint of what happened. During a seminar at the beginning of the book Melinda meets someone named Heather who is new and becomes her friend but ultimately leaves her

“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson was first recognized as an inappropriate book in 2001 by Wesley Scroggins. Speak is about a girl named Melinda who is raped at a party by Andy Evans during the summer and she calls the police. She is socially rejected by her old friends. Her friends don’t know the whole story but only know that Melinda called the cops and ruined the most important part of the summer. But Melinda manages to find solace in her art class taught by Mr. Freemen.

Speak is a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. The author’s purpose in writing this book was to tell a story about sexual assault and to show real-life victims that things do get better. There are 198 pages present. Speak has won many awards such as A Michael L. Printz Honor Book, a SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and BCCB Blue Ribbon, along with many others. Every character in this book plays an important role; however, three important roles in particular are Melinda, Heather, and David Petrakis.

Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a literary handbook that youth can read to learn about the struggle with coping from trauma inflicted by being sexually assaulted. When a person experiences this type of trauma it can be frightening to blindly live through the after affects. During certain phases of life people tend to rely on different interpersonal relationships as a way to cope with major life events. The process of coming forward after being assaulted, can be an intimidating part of the incident due to the amount of added stress it can bestow on an already stressed out victim. Speak allows the reader to learn about the process of coping with being raped as well as the effects on interpersonal relationships and what to expect when

The “beast,” an entity we know little about. What is it, exactly? What does it represent? During World War 2, a plane transporting English schoolboys was struck down over an unnamed island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The children became stranded, frightened, and paranoid.

Melinda can not find the words to describe the event of her rape and hence is unable to defend herself against unfair accusations made by classmates and instructors. Finally, Melinda experiences flashbacks and episodes of anxiety, particularly when she faces situations or people that remind her of the event. For instance, Melinda refers to a flashback, “ Mostly I just watch the scary movies inside my eyelids” (50). Melinda refers

The topic of rape is also mentioned. At the end of the story, Melinda comes to terms about the incident she has endured: “IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or bullying, or hiding. Andy Evans raped me in August when I was too drunk and too young to know what was happening.

Speak Journal Response The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson creates many connections; whether they are real world, virtual or personal. This journal will explain those connections, and show my thoughts on them, as well as how they have impacted my view on different, related, topics. My first connection is about Character, between Melinda’s parents, and Qibli’s (Key-Bee) parent’s in the book Wings of Fire.

The work of Ovid, Metamorphoses, has a central theme of changing and transformations that occur in some way in each story. The modern work, Beastly, a movie that is contemporary spin of the child’s fairytale, Beauty and the Beast, shows a transformation of its own. The main character begins the story as a narcissistic, arrogant, young man that thrives on physical appearance. He is cursed and turned into a hideous monster until he finds real love. This story explores how the movie is a modern twist of the classic story Beauty and the Beast but also a physical transformation that leads to a psychological change like the stories seen in Ovid’s work.

(Anderson, 165). In this part of the book melinda is watching an episode of oprah and it's an episode about a girl who's been raped and melinda's subconscious wakes up and makes it seem like oprah is talking to her telling her she was raped, she just started to come to realization that she really was raped at the party and she was getting really overwhelmed and started feeling sick. She already knew she got raped, but she was in doubt and she didn't want it to be true which is why it took so long for her to

After Melinda admits to herself that she was raped, Melinda starts to realize that

he novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, focuses on the story of a high school freshman, Melinda Sordino, who is struggling to overcome a sexual assault that happened during a party over the summer. Melinda then called the cops, subsequently shutting down the party. Her actions result in her friends abandoning her and the rest of the school viewing her negatively, as no one else knows the real reason as to why she called the police. Due to the trauma she experienced, she stops speaking and becomes maladjusted and deeply depressed. She has no one to talk to about what happened at the party, causing her to lose all motivation for her classes, except for art.

Drunk, dazed and violated she called the police on the huge party she was at. She soon developed a case of post traumatic stress disorder. Melinda became closed off and stopped talking. She never told anyone about her rape. All of her old friends rejected her after the call to the police.

Told in many different ways Beauty and the Beast is the story of a young beautiful girl held prisoner by a hideous beast. The story always ends with the Beast winning Beauty over even though he is an unattractive creature. Expressed in a third person point of view, but with the focus on Beauty, De Beaumont’s version is different then Straparola’s version “The Pig King.” “The Pig King” is also told in a third person point of view, but the focus is on the Pig King and not Meldina. This completely changes the focus on the story and the way that the reader interprets it.