Speak
The book speak by Laurie Halse Anderson was published by the Penguin Group. It was published in New York, New York in the year of 1999. Speak is a powerful book due to it’s valuable lesson that can impact readers and has impacted reader’s life.
Speak is about a girl named Melinda who went to a end of summer party with her friends. Towards the end of the party things didn't go as well as she planned. She ended up calling the cops, but she couldn't speak of what happened unfortunately the cops still showed up and busted the party not knowing the reason they were really called for. Friends of Melinda’s became ex friends some even became enemies because the party was ruined because of her phone call. Entering as a freshman in high school,the main setting of the book MerryWeather high, she was depressed, lonely and quiet. Will Melinda ever speak of what happened?
In my opinion, Speak is an inspirational and beautiful story. In the beginning of the book it states “I keep my mouth shut.” This shows
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that at first Melinda was afraid to speak what was on her mind, she couldn’t speak of what happened that night of the party . Towards the end of the book it states, “‘Let me tell you all about it’ “ which shows that Melinda learned to communicate and how to express herself which lead her wanting to share what happened that ended up changing her.. The book also states, “Some quiet Melindagirl i haven’t seen in months.” This shows that when Melinda started to defend herself and show who she really is which lead to her avoiding becoming depressed again since she stopped drifting herself away from everyone. This experience tell readers somewhere inside them there's a voice. The author Laurie Halse Anderson was born on October 23rd 1961 in Potsdam, New York.
She was born with the name Laurie Beth Halse. She is an American author of children's and young adults novels. The novel Speak is what she's mostly recognized for. Speak is taught in high schools due to its lesson of speaking up and finding your voice. High school students is who the book is highly recommended to especially those who let’s others make them weak. Laurie won an award called Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2009. Laurie Halse is the author of a total 49 books, the 1st most popular book is speak, the second is Chains published in 2008 and the third most popular one is Wintergirls published in 2009. Laurie still remains today known for her incredible work, she is still writing books at the age of 55 with 4
children. In conclusion, Speak is a very touching book with a little humor that engages readers to want to know more. High school students should read and learn about finding their voice and the benefits that their voice brings to their life,the book also teaches them parties are no good. Speak is a wonderful book with a little mystery like, what happened to Melinda that night of the party?
Throughout the passages, Laurie Halse Anderson establishes the Central Idea through the use of Characteristics and Imagery, revealing that the loudest words are the ones that aren’t spoken.
The book Speak by Laurie Anderson is about how Melinda Sordino--- an “outcast” girl overcome the trouble in her life, her growth in mind and how she learned to speak up for herself.
Lisa Delpit’s book, “The Skin We Speak”, talked about language and culture, and how it relates to the classroom. How we speak gives people hits as to where we are from and what culture we are a part of. Unfortunately there are also negative stereotypes that come with certain language variations. There is an “unfounded belief that the language of low income groups in rural or urban industrial areas is somehow structurally “impoverished” or “simpler” than Standard English” (Delpit 71). The United States is made of people from various cultures and speak many different variations of languages. As teachers we must be aware of some of the prejudices we may have about language and culture.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson teaches a valuable lesson. The book is about a young girl just entering high school. It shows all her struggles and achievements as a girl recovering from being raped at a party before entering high school. Because of the strength of the lesson Speak teaches, it should not be banned.
Many people in the world are like puppets. They move to the commands of others. Once in awhile, the puppet obtains a will of its own and moves against the crowd. Ivy, from Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, became that one puppet who moved against the crowd, with the crowd being social constructs. A social construct is something that the society makes true even though to other people, it has no value. There are many examples of social conflicts throughout the book and the clans or groups in school are social constructs. The main character, Melinda, struggled to fit into these categories causing her to be the Outcast to society. Nobody seems to want to truly befriend Melinda, causing her to be alone. Although Melinda is ostracized by her society
The plot of the book, Speak is that Melinda Sordino, a freshman at Merryweather High went to an end of the summer party with some of her friends. Things take a turn for the worst when a senior named Andy Evans sexually assaults her at the party without her friends knowing about it. Melinda is frightened, afraid, and does not know what to do so she calls 911 busting the party, and causing her friends and everyone at that school to hate her, even if they don’t know her.
Today, society has become a boisterous world of communication. From telephone conversations to live Internet chat and e-mail, the world has never before been quite so in touch. In the novel Obasan, by Joy Kogawa, Naomi Nakane does not have technology to communicate. Instead, she faces the dilemma of communicating at all. From her family, Naomi is shown the many faceted truths of speech and communication. From strong, silent Obasan, to stubborn, resolute Aunt Emily, Naomi finds that one can correspond with others through silence as well as through speech. As a child, Naomi spends much of her life in non-communicative silence, only to help further the distance between herself and her mother. As Naomi grows into womanhood and beyond, she discovers that in speech lays understanding and, unfortunately, pain and sorrow. Joy Kogawa’s tale of Naomi Nakane shows how one young girl can live a tortured life and find peace living life in between silence speech.
Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, delivered The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, in Oslo on December 10, 1986. He started his speech off by reciting the following prayer: "Barukh atah Adonai …shehekhyanu vekiymanu vehigianu lazman hazeh"—"Blessed be Thou…for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day." Then, after his speech, the people thanked him for everything he had done to help humankind make peace. With a profound sense of humility, he accepted this honor.
Everyone has had that one moment, or maybe a couple. The moment when their life changes forever, the moments when they know they will never be the same person they were yesterday. These moments are turning points that play a large role in a person’s identity.
Speak, is a novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson, about a girl entering high school, for the first time, with a heavy secret weighting on her. Melinda Sordino begins freshman year at Merryweather High School, being a complete different person. Over the summer, Melinda and her friends went to a senior party, where Melinda ended calling the police. This caused her friends and the people at the party to socially reject her, even though they didn’t knew that before the phone call, Andy Evans raped her. Due to the phone call, Melinda enters high school without friends and having to see Andy Evans everyday. Her only “safe” place in the entire school is art class, where Mr. Freeman is the teacher. Mr. Freeman is the only teacher Melinda doesn’t dislike or avoids, because he listens and understands her, but also shows her the value of honesty.
In the novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson utilizes the motif of the janitor's closet to show the growth and changes Melinda goes through, starting nonfunctional, and then finally finding her voice and learning how to “speak”.
The speech that was analyzed was “Your Body Language Shape Who You Are” by social psychologist, Amy Cuddy. Amy explained in her speech that other people’s and your body language can display how a person can perceive themselves in a power dominance situation. Also, Cuddy described how an individual can change how a room of people views them by simply arranging their posture. Amy Cuddy gave an effective speech by her delivery of the topic, her credibility on the subject, and how she kept the audience engage.
In Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiographical piece “Silence”, she describes her inability to speak English when she was in grade school. Kindergarten was the birthplace of her silence because she was a Chinese girl attending an American school. She was very embarrassed of her inability, and when moments came up where she had to speak, “self-disgust” filled her day because of that squeaky voice she possessed (422). Kingston notes that she never talked to anyone at school for her first year of silence, except for one or two other Chinese kids in her class. Maxine’s sister, who was even worse than she was, stayed almost completely silent for three years. Both went to the same school and were in the same second grade class because Maxine had flunked kindergarten.
To conclude, I absolutely recommend this book to anyone out there. Not just because it's great to read it for a communication course or anything of that nature, but because the book can help you on so many different levels. At work, school, or in your everyday social life, I guarantee you'll start to see and hear things differently when your communicating with everyone around you. It makes communicating to your benefit easy.
When people choose to not disclose important information or lie they can feel a tug at their being, which makes them question who they are and why they feel the need to be secretive or lie. At some point, people all feel the need to be truthful and to speak what is on their mind, this is where genuine dialogue comes into play. When one turns towards the other and openly tells them what is on their mind, they usually feel a sense of relief. One is able to get their thoughts and feelings off their mind, and then take the next appropriate action based off of what they expressed. When exposing one’s inner thoughts they are able to call to their Being and determine who they really are. Getting this information out really lets someone and others analyze what the information means in relation to who the speaker is as a