Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak Analysis

'In light of present circumstances, in any occasion now you know how terrible it feels and you will abstain from drinking, ' she said" (Moore 62). As opposed to giving some sort of teach, or despite sitting Wes down and bantering with him about his substance use, Mary gets over the condition. Mary neglected Wes ' substance misuse because she didn

Her name is Melinda Sordino who had suffered a sexual assault from a senior at her high school, Merryweather High School, in a summer party before entering school. This novel describes her emotional journey through school and how her relationships with others as her family, friends, teachers, and even herself have changed or influenced her actions. The theme of Speak is one choice or action can affect others. Andy Evans sexually assaulting Melinda causes her to become severely depressed, Mr. Freeman’s supportive art class helps Melinda heal and find herself, and Melinda’s “friends” influenced her to speak up. Firstly, the cause of Melinda becoming severely depressed was Andy Evans sexually assaulting her.

8) From Momo’s utterance we can know that Momo is careful girl. She thinks that The Men in Gray that she faces are not ordinary men. So she needs to be careful in order to not take a wrong decision to defeat them. c) the character’s thoughts “She would stop running away, Momo decided. She had done so in the hope of saving herself.

The unsettling information is not told to the reader, but it shakes Mrs. Maloney to the core. In the heat of a moment Mrs. Maloney then kills the preoccupied Mr.Maloney with a leg of a lamb that was going to be made for dinner. Mrs. Maloney then goes to the local grocery

In the story “Just Be Yourself,” Stephanie tried to fit in by belonging to clubs, ignoring her dreams, and sitting in solitude. An example of Stephanie joining clubs to belong. She joined the ROTC and she didn’t even like it. Stephanie joined every single club at school because she thought she didn’t fit in. It is just like me because I usually think I don’t fit in when I move to another school.

One night as the family had dinner with the samsa’s family, he had been locked out of his room, not allowed to join. It shows dehumanization because he was allowed to watch while they were stuffing their faces with food, while he was not being fed at all and starving. Showing another example of dehumanization is when the father causes injury on Gregor by throwing an apple in his back and wounds him, adding to the cause of his

Her mother sent her to the first day of elementary school without registering her as a student. As she stood in the huddle of her peers anticipating her name to be called, she began to feel alone. She had nobody to help her. All the other kids were headed for their classroom but little Cassandra. She remembers standing there feeling afraid, overwhelmed, and thinking her mom was stupid for not protecting her.

He had been seen with a hook instead of a hand. The couple was really freaked out and drove away. The boy dropped the girl off at her house and when he went to open the door, he saw a bloody hook hanging. The thought was that this hopefully might teach kids to never park on the side of the

Most epic adventures don’t start out with an application and insurance waiver. My mother had told me that I needed to get a job this summer because she was tired of seeing me mope around the house. Throughout May she had been not so subtly putting application papers on my bedroom desk and other places in the house. Each time I saw one; I rolled my eyes then proceeded to throw it in the trash. Finally at the end of the school year she forced me to go to an interview at Lucky’s, a small amusement park that was at the edge of town.

Thinking back to third grade, I can recall constantly getting in trouble in class. I was not a bad child and my classmates even considered me to be a teacher’s pet, but I could never get on this particular teacher’s good side. Every day, I would go home and my mother would ask me “How was your day?” I would tell her about what I learned, what we did as a class, and what I got in trouble for that day. On one instance, my best friend turned around in her desk to tell me a joke and I laughed. I got in trouble, but she did not.