Lauren Anderson

course of a person’s plans. The classic novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne shows a prime example of how one’s mistake, set in the seventeenth century, alters a woman 's life dramatically. The contemporary novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson also take a look at what happens to a high school girl after one unfortunate night. Set in a community of Puritans during the mid seventeenth century, Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter has committed adultery. During the setting of the novel…

we are which is strengthening. In “Speak”, Laurie Halse Anderson takes us on an adventure with a dynamic character named Melinda. Melinda was like any other teenager, until a traumatic experience turns her into a judgemental and isolated human being. Throughout the book, the reader follows Melinda into her deepest thoughts and see how she overcomes the event that traumatized her. An inspection of the novel “Speak” declares how Laurie Anderson establishes the central idea that growth is always…

Phases in the Life of Melinda Mr. Freeman said “Be the tree.” to Melinda in Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak. Melinda’s growth is described through her artwork, and other forms of the trees in this novel. In this story, Mr. Freeman, the art teacher, passes around a globe full of subjects for the students to work on for the entire year. Melinda reaches inside, and pulls out the slip of paper that says “tree”, at first she thinks that the subject is stupid and boring, but it ends up helping…

the book such as trees, mirrors, lips, and closets.But lips in Speak have the greatest impact to the story. Melinda's lips represent her emotions, communication,and expressing freedom of speech throughout the story and melinda's life. Laurie Halse Anderson uses lips in the book Speak to portray emotions in the main character Melinda. Melinda is not a very happy girl. She never really show her true feelings other than sadness. When she does show sadness it's alone and no one can see what's…

What is the definition of family? Is family just the people descended from a common ancestor, or could it be more than that? The story Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson suggests a different meaning of what family truly is. The story is about a 14 year old girl named Mattie Cook who lives in a house above their family's coffee shop in Philadelphia during the time of the Fever outbreak in 1793. Once the fever breaks and her mother becomes feverish, Mattie flees the city with her…

person overcoming that block their best self. It’s truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that everyday.” A constant reason of barricade is the insecurity we feel in certain times of our lives. In the novel, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, many characters experience self-doubt and worry. The most prominent examples of insecurity are the conflicts that Heather, Rachel, and Melinda reveal throughout the novel. In the case of Heather, we see a young girl and the insecurity of…

of these 20 million women, only 16% of these rapes were reported to law enforcement. Why? Because these people are afraid to tell anyone. They have no one who they can really trust and they feel alone and afraid. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, the protagonist, was…

Fever 1793 Matilda Cook lives in Pennsylvania at the Coffee House with Mother, Grandfather, his parrot- King George, Silas- Matilda’s cat, and Eliza their cook. Polly is the serving girl and she didn’t show up to work one day. Mother goes to get tea, when she gets back she tells Mattie that Polly had died, Mother told Mattie and Eliza that she had the fever and there was no doctor around. More people were getting the fever. Rumors start spreading and people begin staying away from the shops by…

Debbie Gibson Net Worth Deborah Ann Gibson was born on the 31st August 1970 in Brooklyn, New York USA. The world knows her as an actress as well as a singer. She took her first steps in the entertainment industry whilst still a child, when at the age of five she wrote her first song. This turned out to be a success for Debbie, as she continued with her writing talent and eventually hit no.1 at the “Billboard Hot 100” with the single “Foolish Beat” in 1988. Apart from being famous as an 80s teen…

something horrific happened to them? Would they call the police and leave the scene without telling the police what happened, making the whole student body hate them, or would they stay and stick up for themselves? Speak, a book written by Laurie Halse Anderson portrays a girl named Melinda, who was raped at a party and later called the cops. After she had called the cops she ran away and the whole student body began to hate her because the police broke up the party. However, she had run away…