Laurie Halse Anderson

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, this story's view point is viewed by the eyes of Isabel. Chains is based on slavery and the American Revolutionary War. Chains starts out in the year of 1776 and ends in the year of 1777. This book shows how a thirteen year old girl named Isabel and her younger sister Ruth. Both fight their way through there way of granting the right of freedom. In the beginning of the book my emotions for Isabel and Ruth became stronger. As Isabel and Ruth lose their parents…

changed for Melinda Sordino. Freshmen were still learning about high school and who people were, but that night at the party changed everything for Melinda and we will discover what happen throughout the book. This book is called Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's about a girl who was just entering high school. She went to a party over that summer before freshman year. At the party all of the kids were drinking and some drank too much. Melinda got raped by a kid named Andy in the woods at the…

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson talks about a Young girl by the name of Melinda Sordino a freshman a high school. Over the summer she is raped and goes through a whole year of silence with no friends and talking about her sexual assault. “It’s easer not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All the crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really want to hear what you have to say” (pg.9). Melinda feels like it’s easier to stay…

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a teenage girl who stops talking after she gets raped. Melinda, the protagonist has changed and is no longer a happy girl. She is now a quiet and lonely girl hated by society because she called the cops on her friends during the summer party. Nobody asked her why she did what she did, but the reason was that she was getting raped. This incident changed her life completely. The main character Melinda starts to show signs of recovery through her art…

Why Did Laurie Halse Anderson Write Chains? According to www.madwomanintheforest.com, it was Benjamin Franklin who started Laurie Halse Hernandez on her journey to write the book Chains. The text states that she did not know that he owned slaves, or that a lot of our first presidents did too. She also discovered that 1 in 5 people were slaves and “sold like cattle”. She states that as she began to discover more, her main character, Isabel, came more and more into focus. The text states that…

If you have ever had to go through a time when the struggle just never seemed to end, you know that it changed you as a person and helped you grow to be much more strong and mature. In the novel Chains, the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, presents a historical fiction novel where a young girl named Isabel, overcomes many hardships in her life as a slave in the late 1700’s. She is sold away to the abusive Locktons, where she faces many challenges, including having her 5-year-old sister sold away…

I read the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. The story takes place at Merryweather High school in Syracuse New York. Most of the story takes place inside the school but some parts are outside the school. The main character is Melinda, a 9th grader who is just beginning high school. She has a big secret that she is hiding and it’s killing her. In the beginning of the book Melinda explains how all her old friends hate her now because of something that took place over the summer, but she does…

suicide, suicide is the the second leading cause of death in teens. Twenty percent of teens have gone through depression by the time they reach adulthood. This depression can be caused by bullying or not having friends. In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is a girl named Melinda who is going through depression because she called the cops on a party, lost all of her friends and is getting bullied for it. The theme in this book is loneliness and the symbol is a tree as…

I think that you should teach this lesson to your freshman English class next year. Not only is it a compelling story, but it also demonstrates a variety of valuable lessons that can last a lifetime. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, touches upon sexual assault, the importance of friendships, and how to handle emotions in a helpful manner. Sexual assault is a topic that is seldom discussed among teenagers, yet extremely relevant to them. Speak sheds light on this important issue and helps…

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” quotation by Franz Kafka. In the novel “Speak”, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, there is a girl named Melinda Sordino a freshman student that lost her friends because she called the police during a party where she was raped by a guy named Andy Evans and ever since that day she has changed into another person. A single event can be an unimportant incident in another…