In this unit as you know we are doing book clubs. My book is "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson. The theme is "Lonely" because in the book my main character now has no friends after Kyle Rodger's party." After she opened her mouth on the party and called the cops and they arrested her friends brother or relatives. Now it's her freshman year in High School and she has no friends and her life is horrible. Her life goes right down the drain. She has a man vs society in the story. She has conflict over a large body of people. I believe the author's purpose is to entertain and inform. I believe entertain to have us get really in the book and makes the book seem fun in a kind of way. I also believe inform because she wants to inform us that high school is going to have some rough times and to get us to know how high school is. She did this because she wants to maybe relate to a time she had a rough time in high school. Mostly this unit takes place in the school and at home. To me I would describe the characters in this story as not nice people. I mean I understand if someone calls the cop on you it is a reason not to talk to them but to ignore her completely it is not necessary. That was your best friend before and at least ask her "Why did she snitch on the party."
Melinda life is so down the drain because now she cuts school to go to the mall and she also for lunch go in the janitor's closet to avoid the embarassment in the lunchroom. I think she needs to settle her problems face to face instead of hiding forever. Running never settles anything it makes matters even worse. She tries to talk to her former best friend name Rachel but she ignores her like she never heard anything she said. Now Melinda life is completely ruin because she lost her new best friend Heather. She was never Melinda's best friend she just needed someone to talk to. She tells her that they are completely different and they never got the chance to really know each other. As I said before I believe Melinda is going to find out what really happened at Kyle Rodgers party and "Why did she opened her mouth and tell the police." Who knows maybe just maybe she might regain back her friends. The main thing I want to know is "What would happen in the story if she never snitched on Kyle Rodger's party and how her life would have been".
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Hi Aboubacarr,
This is a very detailed post! When you have so much to say, remember to use paragraphs. This not only gives the reader a break, but also makes you really think about the main idea in each paragraph that you write.
You are producing some really good deep thinking.
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