Laurie Halse Anderson

Life for a slave in the book, “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson wasn’t always easy. There were different types of slaves in this book and they all had different jobs that were very difficult for some of them. Some were even sold to other people and some slaves had to work as labourers which made them have a lot of injuries that sometimes led to death. Many slaves’ life included plantations, small farms, and their city. They all were different especially when they were all from different parts of…

Peer pressure influence teenagers by having sex drinking and smoking. And even forcing someone to do something they do not want to do. I think Laurie Halse Anderson the author of “Speak” is saying about peer pressure is that everyone makes mistakes.So dont judge others by there past and neither bullying them or even calling poeple names or talking behind the persons back .Beacuse you dont know what that person has gone through. How is Melinda Sordino influenced by peer pressure Melinda…

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…

To my beloved sister Eleanor Olivia Whitesmith, Hello my dear sister Ellie. How are you doing these days? I do hope you are doing fine, at least better than I am. My dear sister I am writing to you because for these past days I have had no head to think about anything other than my current situation. The news I just learned have been eating away everything within me. I feel no desire to nourish myself and my sleep escapes my body when I try to rest. I didn’t know who else to consult other…

“How can you complain if you’re alive?” asked Andy Kincain, a former Army Ranger who suffers heavily from PTSD, in the novel, the impossible knife of memory, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Anderson 332). In the novel, the main character Hayley Kincain, the daughter of Andy Kincain have finally decided to try and settle down in Andy’s home town in the hopes of having a somewhat normal life. Hayley finds herself attending normal school after being homeschooled for the past five years while traveling…

Have you ever had a recurring symbol in your life? Well Melinda Sordino has one and that is the tree.In Laurie Halse Anderson’s speak, she uses a tree to symbolize growth. The tree allows her to be creative. It represents her emotions and relationships. And connects to her self improvement and mental health. Like a tree's leaves grow so do her emotions.Her emotions fluctuate from highs to lows throughout the story. When Melinda is in her home, she is depressed because her family fights often…

The novel Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a young slave during the American Revolution named Isabel. Her master passed away and she was granted freedom, but was ignored that when she and her sister Ruth, were sent to be the slaves of the Locktons. Throughout the story, she struggles to find freedom from Madam Lockton, similarly to how the colonists’ seeked freedom from the reign of Britain. In the American Revolution, the colonists’ struggle for freedom from the British…

Isabel is the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson's book, Chains. When first introduced Isabel is very caring. The person that she especially cares for is her younger sister, Ruth. When Isabel and Ruth arrive in New York their new owner, Madam Lockton, starts to make a fuss about a soldier checking her trunk. Ruth thinks that this is funny, so she starts to laugh at Madam Lockton. Madam gets very angry at her and wants to know who was laughing. Isabel tells her that she was the one who did…

at a high school, gets raped by a senior during the summer before her freshman year. Throughout the novel, Melinda keeps on remembering what Andy Evans, the senior who raped Melinda, had done to her during the summer. In the novel speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the motif “mirror” presents Melinda’s journey to self-acceptance by displaying her first as a girl who refuses to look at herself, then as a girl that tries to seek herself, and lastly as a girl who is able to defend herself using her…

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine defines Rape Trauma Syndrome as a mental health disorder that describes a range of symptoms often experienced by someone who has undergone a severely traumatic event. In Speak, a novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is a victim of rape and shows the symptoms of Rape Trauma Syndrome otherwise known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The main character, Melinda, is isolated by her school and friends, which leads to her slow healing process. Without…