Speak Essay:
The outside world is associated with the cycle of life: birth, life, reproduction, and death. This cycle is found in everything in nature,certain events occur multiple times in the lives of living things. In a similar way human emotions are compared to things that exist in nature. Being lonely is being a tumbleweed in a desolate desert, overcoming it is the first rainfall after a drought. Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak is about a sunflower, who, after being choked by weeds, is searching for the sun again. The main character Melinda Sordino begins as an innocent girl simply enjoying adolescence, after a tragic event, she begins to hide herself from the world. She goes from living to dying to rebirth. The role nature plays in this story is crucial because it allows the reader to understand …show more content…
Quote: Melinda acknowledges that there is a massive difference between her yard and that of her neighbours’, she says,”Our yard is a mess. All our neighbours have these great magazine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Ours has green bushes that just cover the front windows, and lots of dead leaves”(165).
Evidence:This background is appropriate, because it allows the reader to see the major difference between Melinda and everyone else. Melinda is a mess, struggling to survive and everyone else around her seems all right.
Quote: After improving the state of her yard and having a sudden, positive attitude change, Melinda decides to plant Marigolds in her once decaying yard,”I’m on a roll. I’m rocking. I don’t know what it is; standing up to Heather, planting marigold seeds, or maybe the look on my mum’s”
Evidence:
Claim 2: Imagery...
Quote: After being assigned to create a tree related art project, Melinda imagines herself as a grotesque dryad with, “Two muddy-circle eyes under black-dash eyebrows, piggy-nose nostrils, and a chewed-up horror of a
The outside world is associated with the cycle of life: birth, life, reproduction, and death. This cycle is found in everything in nature,certain events occur multiple times in the lives of living things. In a similar way human emotions are compared to things that exist in nature. Being lonely is being a tumbleweed in a desolate desert, overcoming it is the first rainfall after a drought. Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak is about a sunflower, who, after being choked by weeds, is searching for the sun again. The main character Melinda Sordino begins as an innocent girl simply enjoying adolescence, after a tragic event, she begins to hide herself from the world. She goes from living to dying to rebirth. The role nature plays in this story is crucial because it allows the reader to understand …show more content…
Quote: Melinda acknowledges that there is a massive difference between her yard and that of her neighbours’, she says,”Our yard is a mess. All our neighbours have these great magazine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Ours has green bushes that just cover the front windows, and lots of dead leaves”(165).
Evidence:This background is appropriate, because it allows the reader to see the major difference between Melinda and everyone else. Melinda is a mess, struggling to survive and everyone else around her seems all right.
Quote: After improving the state of her yard and having a sudden, positive attitude change, Melinda decides to plant Marigolds in her once decaying yard,”I’m on a roll. I’m rocking. I don’t know what it is; standing up to Heather, planting marigold seeds, or maybe the look on my mum’s”
Evidence:
Claim 2: Imagery...
Quote: After being assigned to create a tree related art project, Melinda imagines herself as a grotesque dryad with, “Two muddy-circle eyes under black-dash eyebrows, piggy-nose nostrils, and a chewed-up horror of a