You are assigned 1 story element of Speak. You job is to analyze your element and comment on this post with your response. At least 5 sentences. You need 1 specific example from the text (that means a quote with the page number). Please include a question AFTER your 5 sentences. Then, you will comment on one other person's post in response to their question.. Make sure your comment is helpful and not simply "I agree" or "this is good".
Nana--flashbacks
Page--characterization
Nick--theme
John--figurative language (similies and metaphors)
Leem--theme (must have a different theme than Leem)
Shemar--structure (diary format)
Darryll--character develpoment
In the beginning of story, Melinda was a very shy person and a outcast.The first way she started developing through the story was when she stood up for herself in Mr.Neck's class. Another way she developed through the story is when she started playing basketball. Also she developed by talking to Ivy in the bathroom and writing things on the bathroom wall about Andy. Finally a way she developed through the story is when she stood up to Andy in the janitors closet and fought back. These are ways that Melinda developed positively through the story because she found her voice through the story.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you because she is an outcast , she stands up for herself in a way. She changes in a good way to help her self and prove everyone wrong. I am glad she stood up for herself and you explained it perfectly.
DeleteI agree that she developed through the story standing up to Mr. Neck was good but you forgot to mention how she finally told Rachel her best friend about the situation
DeleteMelinda has changed from the beginning of the book to the end. She had lots of friends she got great grades. After the night of the party everyone hated her. No one knew what really happened because Melinda was to scared to say why. Her good friend heather had stop being friends with her because of Melinda calling the cops to the party. Melinda changed by being always depressed and not doing good in her classes. Heather changes by not sticking my Melinda's side and asked her what went on at the party. She starting ignoring her, having everyone turn against her. Then she takes the time to actually figure out what went on and still didn't believe her. Heather found out the truth for herself, and apologized to Melinda. In the end they both changed from liking each other to hating each other then, becoming best friends again.--PROFFITT
ReplyDeletei agree because you explained exactly how she changed through the whole story. this was a good characterization of Melinda.
Deletespeak is in diary format there are many examples to support this theory one example is the way the book is told speak is told in first person she describes everything from her point of view everyday like someone would do in a diary a diary is a book/ journal in which one keeps a daily record of events and experiences. speak is being told by a girl named Melissa who talks about her everyday life in and out of school.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this because the book in told in first person. It gives Melinda's perspective about the situation and how it affect her mentally and physically.
DeleteThere are many flashbacks in the book that Melinda has. In the book Melinda has a flashback in biology class "Apple smell soaks the air. One time when I was little, my parents took me to an orchard...The sun warmed my hair, and a wind pushed my mother into my father's arms and all the apple picking parents and children smiled for a long, long time"(Shepard 66). Her parents barely talk to each other and Melinda only thinks they are only together because of her. Melinda remembers an apple smell that she smell in bio class. She remembers being at an orchard, sitting in a tree, feeling the sun, and her parents being happy and she being happy. Another flashback Melinda haves is in bio class again "He spread her froggy legs and pins her froggy feet. I had to slice open her bely, she doesn't say a word. she is already dead. A scream starts in my gut- I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair."(Shepard 81). Melinda passes out from the frog smell. Melinda remembers a a scream, a cut, and the smell of dirt. Melinda keeps having flashbacks about either her childhood or what happen at the party she so afraid to talk about what happen. Melinda have another flashback "I can smell him over the noise of the metal shop and I drop my poster and the masking tape and I went tot throw up and I can smell him and I run and he remembers and he knows. He whisper in my ear"(Shepard 86). Melinda remembers the boy (IT). he comes up to her and whispers in her ear. she wants to throw up. He probably knows what happened at the party. she doesn't like him and she doesn't want him to notice her.
ReplyDeleteMelinda Sordino, the main character in "Speak," loses all her friends when she calls the police to bust up an end-of-summer party, and she spends the following school year as an outcast. One of the themes of "Speak" is isolation. Losing her friends is not the main cause of Melinda's sense of isolation, however. Melinda was raped at the party by a boy named Andy Evans. After the rape, Melinda is unable to speak about what happened to her and quits speaking altogether. Rape and the consequences for the victim is the main theme, along with losing one's voice and the tremendous courage it takes to find it again.
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