Speak Journal Response To Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

Now, add moving to a new neighborhood and all these already tough times become intensified immensely. Prior to the move and puberty, Cheyenne was a normal young lady who loved to play soccer and got along with her parent’s. But in a whirlwind of newness all her innocence and acceptance of herself, fly’s right out the window. Perhaps Cheyenne could have handled puberty with more grace, but adding the move and not making new friends quickly left Cheyenne feeling as if she had no options. She lunged into the first group that accepted her and in order to maintain these friendships she had to walk the walk and play the role.

When Rachel knows the truth and assures that Melinda is Andy 's victim she feels guilty of becoming disloyal to her friend. She has learnt a lesson about loyalty and friendship. Rachel feels that her anger towards Melinda was

It's about a 16 year old girl named Neema Powell that gets kicked out of her house, because her moms boyfriend was a drunken pervert. She ends up staying with her boyfriend where she was unwanted. Neema forgot to grab her birth control at home and she didn't take it for two days. That lead to the decisions she had to make throughout the story. This book has very good twist and turns throughout the story.

This greatly affects her because Andy knew he was doing something wrong and he knew that she had said no. But he continued to harass her and overall cause all the main problems like her losing her friends. He caused her depression and months and months of torture just because he didn’t feel like doing the right thing, he just fell into his guilty pleasures. Melinda would have never had the problems she did if she had never met Andy Evans and if Andy would have had more common sense none of this would have never happened either. Evidently, Andy Evans deeply affected her internal and external factors and will continue to affect her life throughout the book until she gets the help and support she needed all

Jordyn McEvoy Weidmann Period 5 9-20-15 The Difference In Our Growth “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.” (Anderson, 143) In the novels Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the characters Melina and Okonkwo go through highs and lows, rises and falls. They show growth, and they show back peddling.

At the end of the story she finally found her voice and was able to stand up for herself. In the beginning, Melinda didn't talk to anyone, barely even to her parents. She says, “I have tried so hard to forget every second of that stupid party and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can't tell them what really happened” (Anderson, 28).

If my reading can be described as a train journey, my station would be at the border of reading to learn, and reading for sheer pleasure. While reading Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the subject matter was not “enjoyable,” but it was necessary, when you consider how important it is to address the effects of sexual violence and harassment. Walking in the steps of the main character who has experienced trauma, on the surface, nothing is what it seems. In the beginning, I see a lonely, hopeless girl, who has lost interest in everything, yet I knew there was a reason behind her belligerence and disinterest. My interest in serious young adult novels stems from how young women are treated.

Melinda or refer to Mel numerous times in the book is about a teenage girl who just enters High School. Mel has longish hair that is often greasy, usually has dark circles under her eyes has a chewed up lip which is mention numerous. She is an outcast. Does not have a place in High School nor fit in with any group. Her only friend Heather left her in the middle of the year so she can pursue her dream of finally being cool with the Martha's.

This article is giving insight to individuals of putting themselves in Connie’s place and how to handle situations like hers. There are two main characters. Connie is a typical teenage

The main character, Hana hates ugly things. She deems society and those who live in it to be trash. Hana is the daughter of a high class man and when it’s her eighteenth birthday, it’s the society’s custom for her to choose a slave. Hana doesn’t have an interest in owning a slave until she meets Sean, whom she saw had protected another

Her mom makes her go to school because she tells her that he was a stupid boy that is rude and doesn’t know what he is talking about. Riley walks into the halls of BHS and the first thing she sees, David Brooks, the mean boy that had no right to say what he did to Riley. Riley is wearing her favorite shoes as always and walks right passed him while he laughs at her with all his friends. She ignores it at the moment but inside all these mean comments are building up inside of her making her lose her self esteem and confidence. Riley goes home the second day and goes straight to her room.

Rachel, Melinda's friend also normalizes Andy’s actions because she does not believe that he would ever do such a thing. Overall, the social issue of rape in this book perfectly mirrors rape and rape culture in real life. Summary

It talks about loneliness, desperation and confusion that anyone who has no guide to ease them into the world goes through. It also talks greatly about the human mind’s ability to repress the memories that it finds too traumatic to deal with. The plot starts out simple, an unnamed protagonist attending a funeral in his childhood hometown. He then visits the home that he and his sister grew up in, bringing back memories of a little girl named Lettie Hempstock who lived at the end of the lane, in the Hempstocks’ farmhouse, with her mother and grandmother.

According to Sheila B. Anderson, author of the book Serving Older Teens, teenagers are “drawn to stark realities and gritty details” and have “an element of morbid curiosity.” In turn, this makes them “want to read about other teens who are in the midst of problems, whether those problems relate to relationships, death, homelessness, or any of the other social problems featured in young adult literature.” As themes such as drugs, alcohol, and relationships are a common part of teenage life, it is only natural that teens would want to read about people like them who are going through similar situations. These themes and ideas are prevalent in a specific genre of literature – young adult novels. Young adult novels often chronicle the lives of young people and the issues that they encounter, reflecting the same situations and sentiments that young-adult readers experience in their own lives.

She is an only child being raised by her single mother. Sara and her mother have a very healthy parent-teenager bond. At the beginning of her senior year in high school, Sarah’s mother is killed in a car accident. Sara now is sent to live with her estranged father in the ghettos of inner-city Chicago to finish her senior year. She is the only white student in the school.