setting to prove the critical lens. The main characters in both these novels overcome challenging situations by taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them. In their struggle to make the best of their circumstances‚ the main character Melinda in Speak and Steve in Monster illustrate the critical lens. In Monster the main character Steve is faced with a long prison sentence. The theme of Monster is introspection. The theme is introspection because Steve wants to change so he looks deep
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Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird. However‚ the protagonists always found a way to conquer with the good‚ and will always shine brighter than the evil. In “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ the evil in this story is Andy Evans‚ Melinda Sordino’s antagonizer. Because of this‚ Melinda often fights the indirect pain he causes her and she has to deal with the fact that this specific person took away the good in her year or even her life just from raping her. Many ways she copes with it is my isolation‚ biting
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books: No time for Mother’s Day (1998)‚ Turkey Pox (1996)‚ and Ndito Runs (1996)” (“Speak- Anderson”). Don Latham summarizes Anderson’s Speak as “the story of teenager Melinda Sordino’s rape‚ recovery‚ and eventual coming out as a rape victim” (Latham). Speak is a novel that is geared towards young adults who could possibly relate to Melinda and her story; however‚ the novel has faced countless criticisms for its crudity and inappropriateness. Despite critics‚ Anderson’s Speak immediately received astonishing
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themselves‚ including “The Journey” and “Speak”. They both pass along the message that if you don’t let people know how you feel‚ what you have gone through‚ and what you stand for‚ you are not going to reach anywhere in life. In the novel “Speak”‚ Melinda never told anyone that she was raped at the party‚ therefore people in her school misunderstood her action. At the end of the story‚ She decides to tell her friends about the incident. People now understand her and she was accepted by others as a
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Maya Angelou are very similar but different in some ways. The novel Speak is about a young girl named Melinda who is raped at a party the summer before she starts high school. Throughout the book Melinda is afraid to speak of the incident and becomes silent and speaks to no one. The book is about Melinda finding herself and overcoming the fear and learning to speak out. Throughout the book Melinda becomes more and more isolated because of the incident‚ which brings up thoughts about the poem Alone
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town in New York with a young teenager girl‚ Melinda‚ who starts her high school years as an outcast. Her ex-best friends all split up into different clans except her; she was just by herself along with new girl‚ Heather. Melinda hasn’t spoken much since the accident over the summer and leaves her silent throughout most freshman year. At home she doesn’t speak much either and kind of leaves her parents curious as to why she doesn’t talk anymore. Melinda is having a hard time at school with teachers
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novel Speak is about a social outcast named Melinda and her struggles to fit in in high school. She doesn’t have any true friends because no one stays around long enough to hear her story. The book is written by Laurie Halse Anderson. Throughout the novel Melinda shows her emotional discomfort through actions instead of speaking out. In the end she speaks up for herself and she finds a happier state of being. In the beginning of the novel Melinda enters high school being shunned by all of
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struggles with finding her herself like she struggles to create the perfect tree. Melinda’s efforts to create the right tree in her art class represent her hardship and her ability to overcome them. Melinda is struggling with hiding and isolating herself from everyone and dealing with accepting herself. Melinda hides herself from everyone by hiding herself in a secret closet‚ this allows her to hide her mistakes just like one of the trees she creates with “some thick branches‚
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by Tennessee Williams centers on the character Blanche Dubois‚ whose life tailspins into guilt and depression after the passing of her late husband. Similar themes can be seen in the second novel‚ Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The main character Melinda Sorino goes through similar emotional problems after what happens with an older boy. In the play A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ Blanche moves to New Orleans after all the tragic events regarding Bell Reeve and the death of her family
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Mental Illness ‘Speak’ by Laurie Halse Anderson is an novel that explores a girl in high school who is raped at a party and she calls the cops and everyone hates her for it but she tells nobody about what happened which turns her to a very dark place and she ends up in a depressed state. Laurie Halse Anderson said herself "I’ve learned that Speak is not just a book about rape. Speak is a book about depression." Mental illnesses like depression are disorders that affect your behavior‚ mood and the
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