Laurie Halse Anderson

Immorality demonstrates growth through a person’s tough times. In the novel “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character, Melinda, has important issues going on in her life that make her life as hard as it can get. Melinda’s actions turn her into a wicked and immoral person to the society around her. Melinda starts off as a freshmen student at her high school. Many people can tell that she is going through a tough time because of her poor actions being shown. For example, biting her…

Fever of 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is a historical fiction book with 243 pages. This story takes place in Philadelphia, which at that time was the biggest and busiest city, during the scorching summer of 1793. The main character is Matilda “Mattie” Cook who lives with her grandfather, her mother Lucille, and Eliza the free African-American cook of the Cook Coffeehouse Mattie’s mom runs. In the introduction of this book Mattie detest having to do any work but does have a crush on Nathaniel…

What exactly does banning a book solve and how will banning a book solves this “problem”? You could be reading a banned book for history in your room at this exact moment. A banned book is a book that is banned in a library, home, or even country for a reason that an official calls out. I, myself, disagree with the idea of censoring books just seeing that one or a few people disagree with the book in anyway. One person’s decision may ruin the joy for everyone. Google has unneeded censorship…

Have you ever felt so trapped inside of your own mind you are afraid to say even a word? The main character, Melinda, in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson experiences this. Over the summer Melinda went to a party and got very drunk. She was raped and she called the police. She is now a freshman in high school and she is a social outcast. She has no friends, and now she is mute. She finds her way and her strength through art; she has been assigned a tree to be the subject of her art project. Being…

“No family is perfect we argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times, but in the end, the family is family the love will always be there…” The author of Fever 1793 is Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever 1793 is a person named Mattie’s family who lives above a coffee shop with her mother (Lucille Cook) and her grandfather. Mattie spends her day trying to avoid all her chores and tries to make plans to make Philadelphia has seen but a fever breaks out named Yellow Fever, this disease…

“You are in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited, but whose safeguards are not”- quote by Citizenfour. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an utopian and dystopian fiction novel that is very similar to the film called, Citizenfour. Both pieces of work have different ways of displaying their own versions of their world’s, but in the end both seem to be the same exact one. Both stories display a scenario in which the people are censored by the government to hide the truth of what is going…

Introduction In the novel, Fever 1793, authored by Laurie Halse Anderson we are introduced to a young girl named Matilda “Mattie” Cook. When we first meet Mattie she is being woken up by her mother and finds that a mosquito is buzzing around in her ear. Her mother is telling her to wake up and get to work because their servant girl, Polly, is running late. They soon come to find out that Polly has passed away from a disease called yellow fever. Mattie and her family are not aware of the wave…

Just: based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair. The story, Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, talks about an African-American slave named Isabel, and her younger sister Ruth, who are sold a cruel household owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lockton, and managed by a housemaid named Becky. In this book, on page 3 of chapter 1, One can see that Isabel learned certain habits from her mother, like seeds implanted in her brain. The epigraph for this chapter is “Youth is the seed…

fifteen-year-old outcast named Charlie. In a progression of letters kept in touch with an unknown reporter, He relates his encounters the highs and lows of high school and the coming of age. This could also be related to the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson when ninth grader Melinda…

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” is a novel by Harper Lee. This story is told throughout the eyes of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a 6-year-old girl. The book is set in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Although most of the town is suffering, her family is doing well because of her father, Atticus, who is a well-known lawyer. Scout has an older brother named Jeremy “Jem” Finch, who is 10 years old. During the summer, they meet a boy named Charles “Dill” Harris, who they become friends…