Speak And Twisted Analysis

Likewise, teenagers relate to the main characters in the novels, "Speak" and "Twisted" by Laurie Halse Anderson. Students go to school, and eat alone for lunch because of their appearance. In comparison to, Melinda saying, "I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitudes. And I don't have anyone to sit with. I am Outcast (Speak, 4). She's realizing she's different from others. Also, Tyler revealing, "I figured if I killed myself, everybody who treated me like dirt would feel awful" (Twisted, 190). Melinda and Tyler suffer from adolescence of being a teen, which is why Anderson crafts a theme of facing conflicts to become a better person, and speaking out about a terrible fear.

To begin with, Anderson

In the novel, Twisted", Tyler looks in the mirror after trying to commit suicide and says, " I didn't fit. I was a different size, a different shape. I kept trying to squeeze into a body, a skin suit, that was too small. It rubbed me the wrong way. I blistered. I calluses. I scarred over and it kept hurting" (Twisted, 212). The quote shows Tyler was not himself, and wasn't comfortable with being someone different. In comparison to the novel, "Speak", Melinda sketching her tree and is illustrating, "I sketch a Cubist tree with hundreds of skinny rectangles for branches. They look like lockers, boxes, glass shards, lips with triangle brown leaves" (Speak, 119). This quote shows Melinda drawing her troubled surroundings and appearance into the

In the novel, "Speak", Melinda compared herself as a rabbit, when seeing Andy Evans (the anaogist) and thinks, " Maybe he won't notice me if I stand still. That's how rabbits survive; they freeze in the presence of predators.......... BunnyRabbit bolts, leaving fast tracks in the snow" (Speak, 97). This quote shows Melinda representing herself as a rabbit, because she fear Andy, and thinks of him as a predator. Equally to the novel, " Twisted", when Tyler compares his dad to a dragon and says, " Dad snapped the curtains shut. He stood in the middle of the lemon-yellow carpet, opened his jaws, and sprayed fire everywhere. I was a loser, a liar, a jerk, an idiot, a disgrace, and an embarrassment............ I tuned out again. He kept at it for another or so flapping his wings and tearing at the sky with his talons" (Twisted, 150). The author compares Tyler's father to a dragon to inform the reader his angry at Tyler's