Melinda Sordino

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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 likes to refer to him…

reality has already affected Melinda Sordino’s life before the novel begins. Melinda has been ostracized because her peers believe that she has called…

communicate with others. Melinda Sordino, a grade nine student in Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak, struggles with speaking to other people ever since she was raped at a summer party. The figurative ice in her throat is one of the main reasons why Melinda cannot speak to others even though she wants to. Instead, Melinda learns to communicate through art. Using turkey bones from thanksgiving, Melinda creates a structure that shows her feelings. Another piece of art Melinda creates is multiple…

everyone makes mistakes.So dont judge others by there past and neither bullying them or even calling poeple names or talking behind the persons back .Beacuse you dont know what that person has gone through. How is Melinda Sordino influenced by peer pressure Melinda Sordino was peer pressured when she was at a party with her friends and was drinnking and meet a guy that she fell in love with and then that guy raped her. (Halse). How have you experienced peer pressure I experienced peer…

the pressures of high school, the drama between peers and cliques, and one’s own internal turmoil, adolescence is a rollercoaster of emotion and conflict. Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak addresses these issues of a teenager’s life by following Melinda Sordino as she experiences all of these as she starts her first year of high school, friend-less after being sexually assaulted the previous summer. Speak is an enjoyable read for teenagers and adults alike due to its clever use of writing…

Laure Halse Anderson’s novel, Speak, where the protagonist, Melinda Sordino, must endure a brutal attack one horrid night and suffer the consequences for not speaking up. It is when her so called “bestfriend” Rachelle and she attend a party, and soon to be senior, Andy Evans, preyed upon the weak, raping Melinda. She chose to bury the secret so deep and keep quiet about it that it hinders her capability of…

“The bruises are vivid, but they will fade”(198). In the story Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda has many bruises all over that were caused by many different turning points in her life. It takes her a long time to figure out that these bruises that she has will fade with time and do not have to stay there forever. Melinda really doesn’t know how to deal with these turning points which causes her first year of high school to really stink and be an awful experience.…

Journey, where the main characters “get out of their comfort zone” in order to achieve their respective goals. Each have mentors that guide them along the way, and the heroes change their personality throughout the story for the better. Melinda Sordino, a freshman girl at Merryweather High School, in Syracuse, New York, has a lot on her plate. She is confused, shy, and afraid. As most freshman are, her problem is quite different from the rest, she got raped at a party last year, but does…

Teens usually have low mental strength. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about Melinda Sordino, an outcast who called the cops at a summer party. In Speak, Anderson demonstrates how survival takes a lot of mental strength when Melinda is bullied, loses a friend, and being bothered by her rapist. Speak shows how survival takes a lot of mental strength when Melinda is bullied. She is being bullied by the Basketball Pole at lunch and: “Thwap! A lump of potatoes and gravy hits me square in the…