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“Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” -Louis Pasteur. Forge, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about Curzon, a boy that turns into a young man as he faces the hardships of Valley Forge in the winter.
After reading the novel Twisted, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, I have become more aware of how different emotions and attitudes that people have can positively or negatively affect how they’re viewed by society. Furthermore, an individual’s attitudes and actions can also change their perspective of the world and the quality of their life. Early on in the book, we are introduced to the main character Tyler, who is an emotional, unpopular, and insecure seventeen year old senior who is hoping for things to change. Throughout the story, we follow his emotional rollercoaster filled with his thrilling highs and devastating lows. After researching astrology signs and their true meanings about specific traits, I have decided that Tyler fits within the Cancer symbol.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson should not be banned from libraries and schools. Speak should not be banned from libraries and schools because they teach valuable life lessons that kids can benefit from and grow as a person from reading about. For example,“You can't speak up for your right to be silent. That's letting the bad guys win"(Anderson, 159). Throughout Speak, the main character Melinda struggles to speak up about her drastic assault.
The theme of self growth and isolation can be seen throughout the novel Speak (1999) by Laurie Halse Anderson, which follows the main protagonist, Melinda Sordino through her freshman year. When Melinda is first introduced, she mentions a secret that she is afraid to talk to anyone about. Melinda later reveals to the readers that she was raped by a high school senior at an end of summer party. Everyone at school acts hostile towards Melinda for calling the cops and ruining what was the best night of their lives, unbeknown to them, that night still haunts her dreams. This causes Melinda to become isolated from everyone, as they only see her as the freak who called the cops.
After reading through the novel “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson I decided to do an Art project for our final project regarding Speak. I took a quick look at the book cover and decided to use a similar illustration but add my own touch to it. I showed little thought bubbles of Melinda remembering incidents that happen in the book, I also put a single piece of tape over Melinda’s mouth to symbolize that she cannot speak up about what happened at the summer party and how she got sexually assaulted. Besides that, I also drew a police car which shows how the police showed up at the party when Melinda called them to report her getting raped but they assumed she called them to report a wild teenage party so they shut it down and everyone assumed
The experiment in The Wave by Todd Strasser was successful because it showed what Nazi Germany was like and taught students never to follow a leader blindly. At the end of the book, when Mr. Ross is holding a Wave meeting, the students become unhinged when they realize they are completely obedient and act like a neo-Nazi group. Not only the students but also Ben Ross saw the experiment's impact. For example, “Ben looked down at them, a sea of faces stared back at him anxiously… It was frightening how easily they would let you decide for them”(133).
Brian Kappenberg’s twenty seventeen Netflix documentary, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, embodies many concepts and ideas related to the study of communications. When watching this film, two aspects of communication studies, in particular, stands out: media and the democratization of content, as well as the public sphere. Specifically, with reference to media and the democratization of content, did Gawker’s defeat mark a loss to freedom of speech and ultimately a loss to open and democratic media ecology systems? and do I agree that Gawker should be labeled as the ‘high school mean girl’ of online journalism? On the other hand, in relation to the public sphere, were Gawker’s actions provoked by a commitment to public service or was
In the story that being raised in a different culture can cause conflicts. In the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Is telling about how immigrated parents from other countries can have different perspectives than their kids. Tan is also showing how not having a good communication with your kid can make them disobedient. "Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted in Chinese. " Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!”
In “Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Wright is accused of murdering her husband. While the sheriff, Mr. Peters, is having difficulty finding the motive. On the other hand, Mrs. Hale and the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, discover three significant clues in their ability to relate to Mrs. Wright. Although Mrs. Wright claims to have been asleep during her husband’s murder, the women conclude she strangled her husband, Mr. Wright, as evidenced by the errant quilt patch, broken birdcage, and slaughtered canary.
Another element in this novel is Melinda’s inner conflict, man vs. self. What Melinda has been through greatly affected her everyday life. She struggles with depression, dislikes her appearance, and feels ashamed of herself for something that isn 't her fault: “I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else...even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me” (Anderson 51). Andy Evans, the senior who raped her, made her feel worthless. This situation is much like the one in the novel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
Self Discovery is the process of finding oneself and discovering an individual's strength and weaknesses. The journey to Self Discovery is one of the hardest journeys in life. The novel I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, shows the theme by showing how the main character has evolved over the journey of Self Discovery. In the beginning, the main character Ed Kennedy is perceived as someone who has "No real career. No respect in the community.
The novel Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a girl named Melinda, who shows signs of depression throughout the story. She has no friends and is hated by people she doesn’t even know. This is because she called the cops at a party, where she was raped. Anderson includes literary elements to show how Melinda is depressed. Throughout the novel, she uses many different literary elements to show Melinda’s conflict.
It is very arduous to live in a world, in which one doesn’t feel they belong. The world being the traditionalist constraints society forces upon individuals. The majority of the novel, Meridian by Alice Walker, tells of Meridian Hill, an African American woman who is caught between conforming to society and her own virtues during the time of the Civil War. She was strongly against the Civil War activists because they try to use their anger and destruction to end segregation. The one person that first introduced Meridian to this notion was a 13 year old, pregnant, orphan people called Wile Chile or Wild Child.
The overall consequences of the industrial revolution were horrible and the progress of the industrial revolution cannot even account for all of the human suffering. During the industrial revolution, there was exploitation of labour. The job did not pay well, there were very few breaks, the machinery was dangerous and the overall environment was dirty and resulted in life threatening injuries. As outlined in the film, Modern Times, this film depicts the hardship of a worker and showed how working in factories resulted in many complications. In the film, Charlie Chaplin fell in the gears, demonstrating how machines are dangerous and he suffered from a nervous breakdown due to the high amounts of work he was required to do and continuously doing
In the poem “Mind” by Richard Wilbur, the author describes the human mind through similies and peaceful diction that convey how the human mind and consciousness control decision-making. The author reveals that he believes one wrong decision can entirely change our course of life. The author uses figurative language to identify the comparison between the human mind and a bat soaring through a cave. The author concludes the poem by saying, “The mind is like a bat.