Laurie Halse Anderson

You must leave your home at the coffeehouse and leave with your grandfather, but you get stranded in the middle of nowhere. You are scared, exhausted, hungry, and sick. You don’t know what is going to happen to you next. “Fever 1793,” by Laurie Halse Anderson is set during the disease breakout a little more than two centuries ago. Furthermore, there were several important plot lines scattered throughout this book. One of the first most important plot lines was when the fever had just broke out…

I think what Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of “Speak”, is trying to say about peer pressure is that it’s very strong in high school and it’s hard for kids to stick up for themselves. I think Melinda Sordino is influenced by peer pressure when she goes to the party (Halse). In my life I have been pressured to drink, smoke, go to parties and ditch school. When it comes to peer pressure, Melinda and I have some in common like when it comes to going to parties and drinking (Halse). Part of the…

Speak Essay (rough draft) After being sexualy assulted by Andy Evens, Malinda Sordino had a hard time communicating with anyone and had a rough start to high school. Malinda lost all of her friends and the hope of finding future friends because she called the police while at the party. She spends most of her time alone because her parents don’t notice that she is depressed and in need of help. Many people who go through such a traumatic event often cannot talk to anyone about what happened. In…

Fever 1793 Matilda Cook lives in Pennsylvania at the Coffee House with Mother, Grandfather, his parrot- King George, Silas- Matilda’s cat, and Eliza their cook. Polly is the serving girl and she didn’t show up to work one day. Mother goes to get tea, when she gets back she tells Mattie that Polly had died, Mother told Mattie and Eliza that she had the fever and there was no doctor around. More people were getting the fever. Rumors start spreading and people begin staying away from the shops by…

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel, Chains, is a story of a young teenage girl, Isabel, trying to find her way through the operose years of the American Revolution as a slave in the Lockton household. Over the course of the novel, Isabel struggles to find her identity and inner determination in the dangerous and abusive society in which she lives. Furthermore, Isabel battles to figure out who she is, what type of person she wants to be, and who she’s supposed to be, especially…

friends. As you go through high school with all the different clubs and sports you’re going to meet a lot of people but when doing so you need to keep your real childhood friends close. They will always have your back. The author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson uses the character Melinda to show that you need to stay close with friends while growing up because once you lose the real ones only the fake are left. The first time the author showed that Melinda lost her real friends was when she…

Best Friends I think what Laurie Halse Anderson is trying to say about best friends in Speak, is that your best friends won’t always be there for you and sometimes you have to fend for yourself. To begin with, every single one of Melinda’s friends hated her, and throughout the book she had to deal with Andy because of the party incident. Nobody asked her what was the problem, her friends weren't there for her when she was attacked. Even Melinda’s best friends hate her for calling the cops, and…

In “Fight for Life” (135 Pages) by Laurie Halse Anderson there is a girl named Maggie,her grandmother (Gran),and some friends from school. When Maggie tells us the story of her life at the clinic. It sounds like fun because she gets to wake up and see animals every morning. One day something big happens at the clinic that causes them to need lots of help. This is just the beginning of it all. When someone comes rushing into a clinic that usually means that somethings wrong. When the woman came…

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is faced with many obstacles throughout the course of the book. However,she had to face a serious obstacle at a summer party that could and did change the rest of her life forever. Even after this she still had more and more obstacles to face as highschool dragged on. Throughout the book Melinda faces many hindrances, but it all started at the summer party. Everyone was drinking and having a fun time until Andy Evans, Or as melinda…

Fever 1793 In the summer of 1793 a deadly sickness called Yellow fever spreads everywhere and affects almost everyone, including a young fourteen year old girl, named Matilda, but goes by Mattie. Mattie lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where her family owns a coffee shop in a small wooden building. When Mattie hears about the yellow fever that is caused by a female mosquito bite she becomes so worried. Almost the whole city gets infection with this fever, including Mattie's mother. Her mother…