M. V. Sexton Speaking Overview

Suzanne Newton
This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of M. V. Sexton Speaking.

M. V. Sexton Speaking Overview

Suzanne Newton
This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of M. V. Sexton Speaking.
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M. V. Sexton Speaking is the story of Martha Venable Sexton's sixteenth summer, a summer of self-discovery and initiation into the adult world of work, play and complex but rewarding relationships. When Martha's guardian, Great Aunt Gert, insists she find a summer job, Martha is, at first, reluctant: "Worse than anything," she says, "I hated to be pushed. My resistance juices go into action even if it's something I might, left to myself, be naturally inclined to do." By the novel's end, however, Martha is thanking Aunt Gert "for making me go to work." "It has," she claims, "changed my life."

Martha Venable sheds her pre-adolescent identity along with her name when she is nicknamed M. V. by her new employer, Brad, of Bradley's Bakeshop. At the bakery, M. V. meets a cache of characters who enrich her life.

She also learns to speak up for herself, to...

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