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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Author Biography

Name: Laurie Halse Anderson
Birth Date: October 23, 1961
Place of Birth: Potsdam, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Author

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Biography of Laurie Halse Anderson
2556 words, approx. 8.5 pages
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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Speak Information
1,156 words, approx. 4 pages
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...


News and Journals
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The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Novel speaks to power of friendship.(Classifieds)
04/01/2007: 819 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: Reviewed By Sandra Redding QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS. By Cassandra King. Hyperion. 412 pages. $24.95. Many female readers will embrace Cassandra King's new novel, "Queen of Broken Hearts." It's a polished piece of fiction and a page turner. And it's...
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Symposium
The ethic of timing and the origin of the novel: speaking too soon in Rabelais and Cervantes.
09/22/1998: 5,210 words, approx. 17 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 83%
Melinda as a Victim of Sexual Abuse
1,059 words, approx. 4 pages
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.
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Essay Grade: 78%
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
885 words, approx. 3 pages
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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Essay Grade: 82%
Melinda's Jealous Personality
225 words, approx. 1 pages
Throughout the novel Melinda has a very jealous personality. Another characteristic that is strong in Melinda is her fear of most everything.


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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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