Speak Mandarin Campaign Essays

In the novel The Green Glass Sea, author Ellen Klages writes a story that shares the lives of two young girls, Dewey Kerrigan and Suze Gordon, during World War II, living in New Mexico with their families, as they make an effort to develop the atomic bomb and create new technology to aid in America’s fight. It is apparent that the author’s main purpose of this narrative was to entertain, but to also somewhat inform and give readers some insight on the occurrences that took place during this time

There is a group of students walking back and forth to classes. No one notices the boy lingering in the hallway. He is your average student with books in his hands, a bag slumped over his shoulders, and a smile on his face to lighten up the day. However, behind that smile, there is neglect, loneliness, and the label of being an outsider plastered on his forehead. No one acknowledged his existence, until his face was broadcast on the local TV channel. He committed suicide and the students finally

The stories of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s Things fall Apart and Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth may seem to have no relations with one another. However, there are a multitude of similarities and parallels between these two men. The tragic flaws of the two cause their demise. Okonkwo as well as Macbeth can be identified as tragic heroes due to both men suffering from tragic flaws; however, their similarity of being tragic heroes diverge due to both men having different motivational factors that

believes that humans are driven by their genes to make choices based on what they need the most. The three needs of freedom, love and belonging, and power― and her lack of them― tell how Melinda in the novel Speak perceives herself as lonely, weak, and vulnerable. Melinda, the protagonist in Speak, is a girl who strongly believes that her silence is the ticket to freedom. She lies to herself about being okay with not speaking up, when deep down inside she knows that it is hurting her inside and out

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda is the main character who goes through difficult times. During the book

Speak Essay “My head explodes with the noise of fire trucks leaving the station” (39). The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson shows Melinda being both courageous and having lack of courage. Melinda does go through some tough stages in the book, but is still shows courage sometimes. Some of her lack of courage does come from a traumatic experience at a party before her freshman year of high school. The first way Melinda shows lack of courage is at a party during the summer going into

The mother uses her words to dictate her daughter to religiously be very mannered like. As singing the song may damage her reputation. Which the mother would not approve of it, so what the mother means is that she would like her daughter to sing or speak in a very formal way. Which is why the mother hints to not sing benna in Sunday school rather than home. This suggests the mother might not mind if she sang the benna at home because no one is going to see her sing it. It would be by far worse if the

Murray Bowen once said, “That which is created in a relationship can be fixed in a relationship.” During the 20th century, Bowen, a well known professor and psychiatrist, developed a theory that holds eight concepts that all help explain how and why a family unit functions the way it does. This approach of analyzing family dynamics through a psychological point of view, can also help explain many relationships in literature as well as those in real life. Khaled Hosseini, a well known contemporary

The novel Speak was written by Laurie Halse Anderson, which features a girl named Melinda who is starting her first year in high school. Melinda is hated by her peers and seem to have a heavyweight surrounding her. As the story goes on the reader learns that Melinda’s depressive state is because of the traumatic experience of being raped. Throughout the novels entirety Melinda is shown attempting to take control over her life and to get through the school year in one piece. Speak gave many people

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel, Speak, Anderson tells the story of Melinda Sordino, a freshman who’s starting off her new year with no friends as her former friends turned on her. Turns out, Melinda called cops on a party, thus, Melinda has become anti-social and depressed because she’s aggravated many people. Through the use of the tree motif, Anderson reveals Melinda is a depressed tree that’s trying hard to grow. At beginning of the novel, the tree motif reveals Melinda is in a dark place as

In the young adult novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda called the police at a high school party while going into freshman year. This unfairly made her instant an outcast and loner. Because of the rape, Melinda lost friends and interest in school and activities. As her art project, Melinda is assigned to draw a tree and she realizes that this project is harder than it seems. When she first draws her tree it has no \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ emotion. It is dark and depressing

An Outcast’s Forest Everett Mamor once said, “We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded, but never stop reaching heavenward”(Mamor). In literature, trees can show many things, such as growth, change, and life. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, trees are used to represent the main character Melinda and her struggles. Melinda is an outcast at school, shunned by her peers for calling the police on a party where she was raped. She is almost invisible at home, where her family

a Voice Do you know who you are? Do you know what you stand for? Do you know your beliefs? Do you have your own voice? Some people cannot answer these questions without the help of others, whether that advice is positive or negative. In the novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, she shows you the story of a girl searching for her voice. The main character of this life changing book, Melinda, a teen who was raped at a high school party, is struggling with speaking to others about the horrible event

Amir was pretermitted by his Baba. He felt himself causative for the death of his mother who passed away during childbirth. He thinks that his Baba has never pardoned him for this. While his father is represented as a physically imposing man, a bear wrestler in fact, as well as an important male in his community and land, Amir is calm and apparently without courage and determination. Hassan is brilliant, brave, trustworthy, and athletic. Amir notices that Baba prefer to favor Hassan. Amir’s desire

not know the students were talking about in class or when the teacher would ask her question and she would not answer. On they way to school the girl would tell Riripeti what she should say in English to her teachers and how to sit still, and not speak out of line, but when spoken too she could never get out the correct words to say to her teacher and then again would end up in the front

Truman Capote uses variety of language devices to vividly develop Perry Smith in his novel In Cold Blood. These language devices include, diction, similes and symbolism. Throughout the novel diction is used to develop Perry Smith’s character, and suggest reasons for the murder. When Smith explains what happened that night at the Clutter’s family home, he tells agent Alvin Dewey about his moment with Nancy Clutter. The phrase "[He] pulled up the covers, tucked her in…" expresses a calm and cozy tone

The role and function of the family in society is fundamental. Indeed, family is the basic and natural unit of society. Being the building block of society, family represents the most important social group that can influence individuals' development. The lack or the instability of a traditional family structure can have deep impacts on individuals' growth and well being. The importance of the role of the family is emphasized in three of the works that we have studied this semester, namely Things

Painting is like keeping a diary on canvas. Art expresses ones feelings in ways words cannot. This is true for protagonist Melinda Sordino in the Laurie Halse Anderson novel about teenage rape, Speak. Anderson uses trees, mainly Melinda’s paintings and sculptures of trees, to chronicle Melinda’s growth in the novel. Instead of Melinda saying exactly how she felt all the time in the book, Anderson uses Melinda’s paintings to keep a diary of her emotions. With the trees, any reader can see Melinda

The use of courage is a powerful choice, but none the less, it is a choice. Both slight and sizable instances of courage occur continuously in time, but the question of what defines them remains. The novel Flowers in the Snow, by Danielle Stewart, models these occurrences through the use of history and personal reflection and helps to better answer the world's inquiry. Flowers in the Snow tells the story of an elderly woman, Betty, looking back on her childhood. Growing up during the earliest stages

The novel, Speak, is about a girl named Melinda, who had an unfortunate incident befall her the summer leading into high school. Now, everyone dislikes her and Melinda spends the majority of the year hiding in the shadows trying to find a way to speak. Melinda befriends Heather, a new girl from Ohio. For a sizeable part of the book, Melinda and Heather linger with each other and therefore, the contrast between the two characters is unquestionably prominent. Heather has a bubbly, determined, and