Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a fantastic book. It expresses what a lot of teenagers in high school and maybe middle school are feeling or going through. The title of the book is speak and it is ironic because the protagonist, Melinda Sordinio chooses not to speak. Yet by describing her surroundings and explaining how she feels little by little, you start to realize why she doesn’t speak. She is traumatized by an event that occurred before she entered high school. That is why I enjoyed reading it so much. Good literature is timeless and placeless. It allows me to understand myself and others a lot better. Also, it shows character development, the effect it has on the reader, and how long it stays relevant in a readers mind. So if that is what good literature is then Speak definitely has is!
Many girls in the world are raped and it continues and there are some still trying to deal with such a horrible thing today. Girls in ten or twenty years who read this book would still be able to relate to it. The feeling of being alone, your rapists raping you again, or the fear of telling someone because they might not believe you are feelings and emotions that people can go through. Although Speak took place in America, it explains what a lot of rape victims are going through in other countries too. So this book is indeed timeless and placeless.
Speak also did help me understand how rape victims and outcasts most feel. Melinda doesn’t communicate with her parents well QUOTE. So she cannot tell them of what happened to her at Kyle Rodger’s party. Over time Melinda does open up to a few people. Like her art teacher Mr. Freeman QUOTE. Also her lab partner David Petrakis QUOTE. Later on in the story Melinda does in fact tell someone, Rachel, she was raped and who raped her. QUOTE. Though, Rachel thinks she is lying and is jealous because Melinda’s rapist is her boyfriend Andy Evans. Yet, Melinda finds the courage to tell her story again, about how she was raped QUOTE. The character transformation Melinda made is amazing. I think this book will definitely have a lasting effect on me. I have watched the movie multiple times with my Mother since I first came to America, and it really has opened my eyes to see what other girls can go through and that it can happen to anyone. So of course Speak deserves all the awards it got.
The Essay on Goodbye Mr Chips Book School Good
The name of this book is, of course, Goodbye, Mr. Chips. It was written by James Hilton in the 1930 s, among his other books including, Nothing So Strange, Morning Journey, and Time and Time Again. There are 132 pages in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and it was published by The Atlantic Monthly Press. Mr. Chips is a teacher at a large boy s school in England, Brookfield that is. I m not sure of his real ...
Another adult literature I read called “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones is similar to Speak. A teenage girl named Sophie is the protagonist in this book. Like Melinda, Sophie is a freshman in high school, and has a hard time communicating with her parents. In both stories, the protagonist is explaining their life and struggles like friend issues, to school problems, and more. For Melinda it is coming to terms with being raped and for Sophie it is finding out the difference between lust and love. Melinda is raped by a hot senior in Speak. While Sophie goes out with an attractive guy, but later figures out that she didn’t really love him. So both characters in these stories fall for the hot older guy, but soon find out that they are not that great after all.
