She lives in her mind, barley speaks to anyone. She spends most of her time analyzing all the things around her life. She wants to tell someone how she feels but is scared that she might get rejected or no one will believe her. “I can’t believe you, you’re just jealous.”(184) when she finally tells one of her former friends from the party who is now dating Andy Beast, what happened and the reason for her calling the cops she lashes out and does exactly what she was afraid of. In reading and studying “Speak” By author Laurie Halse Anderson , my character analysis has taught me how Melinda dealt with her problem and what she went through to get her life back…it also taught me to choose my friends carefully and that keeping your anger and pain bottled up can hurt you more than you know.
Isobel realised that she must not spend her whole life trying to please people and should live it on her own terms, as life is too short and despite her difficult upbringing she can still turn it around. ‘’You are mortal, but you must live as though you are immortal- otherwise who would dare.’’ Nick’s girlfriend Diana also stimulates a change in Isobel. After Nick’s death Diana was a wreck and Isobel realises that her own life was heading in the same direction and that a serious change is needed if she is going to survive. She becomes aware that she has an ‘idiot in the attic’ (an inter-textual reference and a warning, to not follow in the same path of the misguided character also seen as Bertha Mason to Jane Eyre) that must be tamed if she is to progress. Isobel shared similar traits to Diana, her apartment was just as messy, she was always seeking the approval of others and was also psychotic which is displayed by her obscene prank phone-calls in which she would verbally abuse whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the other end of the line.
Kristina then in turn meets the wrong type of people and begins to experiment with a multitude of drugs. Endless nights of drug abuse eventually leads to her rape and pregnancy where she eventually decides to call her mother and attempt to get
Bettelheim argued that “without any fantasy elaboration (Bettelheim 470),” this girl was doomed from the start. He reflected that this lack of imagination made the story all too real, causing disappointment and
Another example that depicts the overall theme of “disorder” is the organization of her essays; most obviously, the essay titled “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”. Her organization within that essay is choppy and confusing, much like a diary entry. The confusing organization of that essay, and of the entire book, is used by Didion to demonstrate to the reader a central claim that is prevalent throughout the novel: life is chaotic and disorderly and there is nothing any one can do about it. That claim can be easily interpreted as cynical; however, Didion’s final conclusion is this: one must come to terms with and embrace the chaos in order to live a full life. 2.
The suspense that Bradbury has created in the novel about the unknown is now replaced with suspense about the consequences of Montag’s actions. Like all the citizens in this futuristic society, Mildred has been made lazy by and dependent upon the technological advancements that surround her. She can no longer thinks for herself, just as the government has planned. It is not surprising that she is terrified of punishment and frightened by the prospect of secret knowledge. She accepts the rule that no one should have an individual thought; she certainly never has one herself.
Truly, her experience of the Vel’ d’Hiv tears her apart, and also causes her to feel no more desire to live. Without a doubt, Sarah never meets terms with the Jewish concept of passing down her stories, thus she never expresses her true feelings or personality to her family. Evidently, Sarah Strazynski, a Holocaust survivor, does not follow and ethical Jewish value of passing down history from generation to generation. On the contrary, she encloses her experience off from the world, and chooses that keeping her secret bottled up is better. Tatiana De Rosnay does a marvelous job in her novel by causing readers to feel the experience as well as relate to the
She also did not care to be like anyone, “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but how” said Beatty (Bradbury, 60). Clarisse was a curious girl and hurt for knowledge. But all of these traits noted her as anti- social, and was banned from school. But she knew she was not anti-social, she was really kicked out cause she was a threat. She didn’t fall into the governments trap and become
The narrative made it clear that she didn’t fit in with the people in her town but feared leaving because that lifestyle was all she ever known. The no named girl didn’t fit in because she was smarter than all of her peers. Her desire to fit in pushed her to start skipping school with the others. She also intentionally failed. The ranch girl should considered her self lucky that she was an outsider because the people that she wanted to fit in with lives changed in the worst ways.
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