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Food In How To Read Literature Like A Professor By Laurie Halse Anderson

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Throughout this novel, Laurie Halse Anderson incorporated seven vital foods that Melinda ate: Ho-Hos, Mashed potatoes, powdered doughnuts, Pop Tarts, the disgusting turkey soup, pizza, and the applesauce. Somes of these meals she ate alone, but other times she ate these meals with Heather and the other people in the cafeteria or even her parents. In the book How to Read Literature like a Professor, Foster claimed that food is used in novels to unite opposing sides in the chapter “Nice to eat with you: Acts of Communion.” This was shown in the book, Speak, as Melinda learned to become acquaintances and somewhat “friends” with Heather even though they have nothing in common. This type of situation was also emphasized when Melinda’s family ate
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