Laurie Halse Anderson

As I read the novel Twisted, I wonder the decision making processes of Tyler and Bethany.Should they have been together in the first place. Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of Twisted. Her purpose of this novel was to show that you do not have to have a perfect life to pursue what u want. Mrs.Anderson, I am writing to you about your New York times bestseller novel Twisted. I was wondering why you choose the name Twisted as the title of this novel? What does it mean in reflection to the story?…

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” said Laurie Halse Anderson. Censorship is limiting access to information, ideas or books in order to prevent knowledge or freedom of thought. It suppresses writing or speech for moral, political, or security reasons. Bleeping out swear words in songs, changing the words to more kid friendly version, cutting out sections of a speech, or even just paraphrasing to avoid offending anyone can be considered censorship. Restricting people's…

As teenagers, we all get influenced quite easily. Sometimes in a positive way, and sometimes in a negative way, but all in all, we get influenced by the people that we associate with. Those people tend to be your friends and sometimes you may not want to speak up or tell your friends something personal. You are afraid to lose them or are afraid of what they’ll think about you when they find out. Our whole society is based on the “trends” where people who are more socially known (celebrities,…

Most of these individuals don’t realize how severe their conditions really are. The main character, Lia, in Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson has a hard time realising the severity of her anorexia as she shows in this quote, “ I change into the yellow rode in my bedroom and make sure the quarters I sewed into the pockets aren’t making them drop. … I step on the scale 107.00 fake…

Author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, shared his views on the act of banning books with the following statement: “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight” (“A Quote by Stephen Chbosky”). Challenging books usually comes from trying to protect people, mainly students, from “inappropriate” material found in the book. This can effect teachers by making them lose their flexibility to…

Even if the world steps into the modern era, the false beliefs will not vanish. One of the most false beliefs in the world of chaos is the concept of rape myths. These myths obviously appear throughout literature as seen in Katy Lewis’s research paper (2017). She is a master student from Illinois State University. Lewis explores about rape myths in her research paper “She Wanted It?: Examining Young Adult Literature And Its Portrayals Of Rape Culture (2017).” In this thesis, it consists of four…

In the world, people are judged on their color, height, and even sometimes what gender they are attracted to or what someone was born as. People are treated unfairly in the world and it seems like no one is doing anything about it, and if someone is, it is not making that much of an impact that it needs. People are standing up for women's rights, standing up for inequality, and standing up to bullies, yet there is still inequality in the world. As the world starts to advance more, there has to…

Laurie Halse Anderson once said, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” This is true, for in a society where people fear the unfamiliar, censorship becomes King and society is launched into a state of ignorance. In Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, a society is created in which books are burned to shield the public from conflicting theory and thought. Though it seems nearly impossible that a world like that could be anything like the current, Bradbury was…