One of these authors is Laurie Halse Anderson, who wrote the famous book, Speak. ... Laurie Halse Anderson had multiple people that influenced her life, and the main two were her father, Ronald Frank, and her second grade teacher. ... Laurie Halse Anderson's idea for the book Speak came from her nightmares and her issue with girls who won't, or can't speak up for themselves. ... Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak pinpoints a very serious view about people who don't speak up when they should and about how they try to deal with their silent pain. ... Laurie Halse Anderson is ...

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In the novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson introduces the tale of Melinda Sordino launching her freshman year of high school concealing a dreadful secret. ... Laurie Halse Anderson uses the motifs of mouth, lips, and trees to develop Melinda's character throughout the novel. ...

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Friends heal each other, and this is demonstrated in the novel "Speak," by Laurie Halse Anderson. ... David Petrakis is my hero " (Halse Anderson 68). ... If the suffragettes did that, women wouldn't be able to vote yet"" (Halse Anderson 159). ... Luckily for Melinda, her situation ends on a good note when, with the help of David and other friends, she finally finds her voice again and speaks up: "I said no"" (Halse Anderson 195)....

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Historically accurate and excellent at describing vivid and bone chilling images, Laurie Halse Anderson puts the reader smack-dab into 1793 and onto the streets of Philadelphia. ... Although this is a fictional story, Laurie Halse Anderson wonderfully incorporates dozens of historical figures and facts. ... Anderson incorporates real experiences like these and gives the young readers a great interest in our nation's history. For those who do not like history class much will find that Laurie Halse Anderson can teach readers bits of history and have fun reading while they're at it. ...

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When I first began reading the book "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson I was not very interested, it was slow going and I had a difficult time getting into the story. However I suddenly got a spark of inspiration. This book began to pull me in and I would wake up excited to see what would happen nex...

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Character Analysis The book Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a young girl named Melinda who throughout the book is tormented by other students because, over the summer, she called the police at a party. ...

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Character Analysis The book Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a young girl named Melinda who throughout the book is tormented by other students because, over the summer, she called the police at a party. ...

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Abstract The National Violence Against Women Survey found that 18% of women reported experiencing a completed or attempted rape during their lifetime (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). More than half (54%) of rape survivors who responded to the survey were younger than age 18 when they experienced their fi...

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After reading "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson it will be hard for any teen to look at the class scapegoat again without a measure of compassion and understanding for that person--who may be screaming beneath the silence. ...

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Speak is a story of a ninth-grader named Melinda Sordino, a rape victim. Throughout the novel, Melinda is in her own world of despair and physically cannot speak to others about her rape. As the novel progresses, she slowly starts to deal with the rape and finally accepts it and decides to move on w...

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There's suffering. There's sickness. There's vomiting. There's blood. There's even death. Just when you think you can get way from the terror in Philadelphia, it gets you and it gets your family while your each sleeping in your own little beds, dreaming of fairies and marshmallows, and the boy down...

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