Laurie Halse Anderson

Melinda’s Damaging Home Life A lack of a structured home life can have horrific effects on the psyche of children and young adults. When the parents are , or emotionally distant, the child may feel unnoticed or insignificant. In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, a young woman named Melinda Sordino, experiences the horror of sexual assault. Unfortunately, her family life shows a level of dysfunction that inhibits her ability to immediately come to terms with her trauma. The lack of interaction…

Family Dynamics from Speak It could be said that the closeness between a child and their guardian provides the basis of our understanding of right from wrong. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character, Melinda Sordino, is a freshman in high school. Over the summer something very terrible happened to her which caused her to slip into a deep state of depression. Her parents should have noticed their little girl was hurting. The family dynamics described in this book were not…

Nora Helmer is a very complicated character despite the fact that at the beginning of this play it seems like quite the opposite. At the beginning of act one, Nora is whimsical and gleeful and very much like a child. She is very much living in a fantasy world or a doll’s house as the title of the play suggests. Nora has been taught since birth to be similar to a doll. Her father treated her as such in the past and so does her husband at the time the play takes place. However, once her illusion…

I would start off the scene with an high angle shot. This angle places importance on the setting, and I want the viewers to focus on the snow. I want them to focus on the fact that it is snowing which makes the world seem to slow. Cars are gradually coming to a stop because the snow is making it difficult to drive. Most people are tucked away inside their homes, so Jeevan is the only one on the sidewalk. From this angle, you will see Jeevan board the streetcar and it start to drive towards his…

How does ‘Secrets in the Fire’ show personal strength and courage? ‘Secrets in the Fire’ written by Henning Mankell and translated by Connie Stuksrud, is a story about a young girl named Sofia who goes through many struggles and shows how she can cope and deal with those situations. The book gives examples of personal strength and courage by having the characters be persistent, having Sofia cope with her struggles, having characters encourage the protagonists, etc. This will focus on the three…

studio system” (33). Americans started picking up the term as well, and then famous directors with certain styles started being known as auteurs. The director’s style crosses over into their films. These are directors like Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David Fincher, etc. Their style could be coincidental or intentional. One director may be darker, while another is comical. The shot selection is usually consistent between a director’s style as well. An auteur may be the author of…

In part one of this story, a guy moved in down the street right after weird kidnappings started to happen. A girl, Lisa thought that her brother got kidnapped but it turned out to be that he was with his biological father neither of them knew that they had. A lot of drama happened between the mom and the kids and the biological father, but who is the real kidnapper? On a bright sunny Monday in the beginning of the summer, Lisa and Dylan were playing in the yard just a month or so after finding…

In Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, the reader follows the unique characters that all happen to live in the town of Winesburg. Anderson's text in a microcosm of American society today, despite the fact that nearly 100 years have passed since it was published. The whole concept of Winesburg, Ohio is meant to show the diversity of a group of people within a society. In today's society we are still a diverse group of individuals that often have contrasting character values, or actions that…

Sherwood Anderson’s Life in a Book” Have you ever lived in a small town in the middle of nowhere? If you can answer this question with yes, then this book will relate to you. The book “Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson” will put you right back in that hometown. Sherwood Anderson was a short story writer and novelist. Sherwood was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio. The book Winesburg, Ohio reflected on his real life. Considering that Sherwood left his family in the works of writing.…

The Royal Tenunbaum is about a dysfunctional family that revolves around Royal (Gene Hackman), who failed as a husband for Etheline (Anjelica Huston), and failed as a father to his three children: Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson), and his step-daughter Margot (Gweneth Paltrow). Royal is trying to reconnect with his family after learning from his informant and servant to the family, Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), that Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), Etheline’s accountant, proposed to his estranged…