As Rachel leaves with an exchange student friend whom Melinda names Greta-Ingrid, Melinda notices that Rachel is ‘smoking’ a candy cigarette, and knows that it is because Rachel has asthma, and can’t smoke real cigarettes.
Her friends turned against her because they didn’t know what happened. Edwards Award given by YALSA division of the American Library Association for her significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. Laurie was the proud recipient of the 2009 Margaret A. When the protagonist, Melinda Sordino, got raped, it turned her whole world upside down. Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times-bestselling author, known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity.Her work has earned numerous awards and accolades. Despite her attempts, however, she imagines shaking Rachel by her neck and screaming at her she wonders why Rachel didn’t try to find out the truth, and decides that this makes her a bad friend. The book SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson is very problematic and realistic. Melinda reminds herself to act like ice in order not to feel anything. Deceit, Despair, and Dejection: Connecting Speak and The Scarlet Letter. Although Melinda attempts to engage in conversation as Rachel smudges mascara under her eyes (in order to look “exhausted” and artsy), Rachel refuses to even speak with her. Break the Silence: How Violence and Trauma Affect Young Women, A Multigenre Inquiry Project. In Speak, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrates the idea that people can recover after trauma and become stronger.The writer utilizes the first-person point of view to show the path protagonist goes through to her transformation. You will use the remaining time in class to create your symbol and describe it in as much detail as possible. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (1999) is her first landmark work addressing a social problemrapethat is all too common to girls entering adolescence in the United States.
You may draw the symbol if you wish, or you can just journal about it. Now you will choose a symbol that you feel represents Melinda. She notes Rachel’s new ability to swear in French, her “black stockings with runs,” and her new decisions not to shave under her arms (which Melinda claims makes her look like a young chimpanzee), and wonders how they were ever best friends. Laurie Halse Anderson chose to use the tree as a symbol for Melinda in Speak. Melinda encounters Rachel in the bathroom, and scornfully describes how her former best friend has changed her name to “Rachelle” and is trying to fit in with the pretentious foreign exchange students. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is multiple award-winning books, but it is also listed by the American Library Association as one of the top 100 books challenged between 2000-2009.Every year several books are challenged and banned across the nation by individuals and organizations who believe the content of the books is inappropriate.
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