Laurie Halse Anderson became a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award with her first work of fiction for young adults, Speak. That 1999 novel won an array of honors for Anderson, the author of three earlier picture books for younger readers, fo...
Speak is a 1999 novel by Laurie Halse Anderson about a teenager named Melinda Sordino. It was made into a film in 2004 (see Speak (film)). It was a New York Times and Publishers Weekly...
Parallel episodes in Rabelais's 'Gargantua' and Cervantes's 'Don Quijote' reveal the way the novel chooses to defy the ethic of timing. It achieves this by playing with the tenses of verbs and by exploiting the illogic of proverbial speech. The narrativization of tense and...
(What I Did Wrong: A Novel) by John Weir Viking. 243 pages, $23.95 JOHN WEIR'S The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket and David Fein-berg's Eighty-Sixed, both published in 1989, were among the first novels to register the emotional cataclysm that...
An essay about Melinda Sordino, the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak, who is a victim of a sexual crime. Melinda exhibits a number of physical and emotional indicators of sexual abuse, and she pursues various coping mechanisms, both negative and positive.
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a cleaver and an ironic title for a story in which the main character chooses not to speak. The story is written in first-person narration from the point of view of protagonist, Melinda Sordino.
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