Unathletic, dumb, dork are just some of the names Meg Murray (the protagonist in the novel) has been called by her classmates at her her high school. Meg Murray is the daughter of Mr. Murry her father, that has been missing for a long time has not come back. As a matter of fact everyone keeps telling her to let it go and that she will never find her dad. Meg is not doing well in school because she is always thinking about her dad, on top of that she gets made fun of by kids at school. In the novel A Wrinkle In Time Meg seems to forget about her good traits instead, but she always seems to remember her bad traits. While reading the story you will realize by the end of the story how Meg gained confidence and courage to save her dad. Throughout the story Meg talks about how she does not like the way she looks, even in the very beginning the author says “Meg Murray has braces, glasses and …show more content…
She can’t seem to get anything right in school, where everyone thinks she is strange and stupid (page 1). Meg knows kid at her school talk bad about her at her school which makes her mad. Getting Mad is also a bad trait that Meg has, for example in the text (page 198) she is yelling at her brother Charles Wallace, “and she felt only anger toward this boy who was not Charles Wallace at all.” Instead of using other traits that she has she take her anger out on her brother Charles Wallace, Calvin and her father Mr. Murray. But in conclusion Meg does not like herself as a person and she wants to change. The main achievement in the novel is for Meg to find her father and bring him back home. She is willing to do anything to get her dad back, which she has not seen him in years and she doesn’t even know he’s alive but Meg is up for an adventure. Meg
This book is about a girl name Ellen Foster who is ten years old. Her mother committed suicide by over dosing on her medication. When Ellen tried to go look for help for her mother her father stopped her. He told them that if she looked for helped he would kill them both. After her mother died she was left under her fathers custody. Her father was a drunk. He would physically and mentally abuse her. Ellen was forced to pay bills, go grocery shopping, cook for herself, and do everything else for herself. Ellen couldn't take it any more so she ran away her friends house. Starletta and her parents lived in a small cabin with one small bathroom. One day at school a teacher found a bruise on Ellen's arm. She sends Ellen to live with Julia the school's art teacher. Julia had a husband named Roy. They were both hippies. Julia and Roy cared a lot about Ellen. After Ellen turned 11 years old she was forced to go live with her grandmother. Ellen didn't want to leave Julia and Roy but her grandmother had won custody. Her grandmother was a cruel old lady. Ellen spends the summer with her grandmother. Living with her makes her very unhappy. Since her grandmother owns farmland she forces Ellen to work on the field with her black servants. Ellen meets a black woman named Mavis. Mavis and her become good friends. Mavis would talk about how she knew Ellen's mother and how much Ellen resembled her mother. Her grandmother didn't think the same. She thought that Ellen resembled her father. She also hated that man. Her grandmother would often compare her with her father. Her grandmother would torture her because she wanted revenge from her father. Her grandmother also blames her for the death of her mother. While Ellen was staying with her grandmother her father died. When her father died she didn't feel sad because she had always fantasized about killing her father. Ellen just felt a distant sadness. Ellen cried just a little bit. Her grandmother was furious because Ellen showed some emotions. She told her to never cry again. After that Ellen becomes scarred for a long time. One day her uncle Rudolph bought the flag that had been on Ellen's father's casket. Her grandmother turns him away. Later that day she burned the flag.
...ts to go back to her childhood days, but she continues to ruin her life with situations that she shouldn’t be involved in.
The Novel Killing Mr. Griffin by: Lois Duncan is a story about the plot of kidnapping the English teacher of Del Norte High school. Being a student of Del Norte High school, Susan McConnell (the protagonist) encounters some difficulties and joy after she finally gets accepted in the “popular” herd. These upside and downsides turn into major themes which are incorporated during the course of the book. The major themes that are developed inside the book are: peer pressure/manipulation, psychopaths, conscience/guilt.
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. This story depicts the story of a very miserable freshman year of high school. Although there are several people in her high school, Melinda secludes herself from them all. There are several people in her school that used to be her friend in middle school, but not anymore. Not after what she did over the summer. What she did was call the cops on an end of summer party on of her friends was throwing. Although all her classmates think there was no reason to call, only Melinda knows the real reason. Even if they cared to know the real reason, there is no way she could tell them. A personal rape story is not something that flows freely off the tongue. Throughout the story Melinda describes the pain she is going through every day as a result of her rape. The rape of a teenage girl often leads to depression. Melinda is convinced that nobody understands her, nor would they even if they knew what happened that summer. Once a happy girl, Melinda is now depressed and withdrawn from the world. She hardly ever speaks, nor does she do well in school. She bites her lips and her nails until they bleed. Her parents seem to think she is just going through a faze, but little do they know, their daughter has undergone a life changing trauma that will affect her life forever.
All signs in the beginning of the movie point to her personality was being mostly influenced by the environment. Examples of environmental factors include her overly affectionate parents, her rich upbringing, and no punishments for her
The plot of the book, Speak is that Melinda Sordino, a freshman at Merryweather High went to an end of the summer party with some of her friends. Things take a turn for the worst when a senior named Andy Evans sexually assaults her at the party without her friends knowing about it. Melinda is frightened, afraid, and does not know what to do so she calls 911 busting the party, and causing her friends and everyone at that school to hate her, even if they don’t know her.
She is very strict and very gossipy and later becomes Scout and Jem 's guardian in a way.
In the first section of the book it starts off with a little girl named Tasha. Tasha is in the Fifth grade, and doesn’t really have many friends. It describes her dilemma with trying to fit in with all the other girls, and being “popular”, and trying to deal with a “Kid Snatcher”. The summer before school started she practiced at all the games the kid’s play, so she could be good, and be able to get them to like her. The girls at school are not very nice to her at all. Her struggle with being popular meets her up with Jashante, a held back Fifth ...
Freshman year already started out ruff for Melinda. She had traumatic summer. Which caused her to go quiet and shut out from the world and all her friends she used to have. She found an empty storage closet and made it her own so she wouldn’t have to go to class or lunch. Also, to skip other events like meetings with the guidance consular. Even if she wanted to talk to her best friend about what happened. She was no longer her best friend. She ends up meeting a girl she had never met in her one of her classes. They did not have much in common but she just wanted someone she could talk. She told Heather most of all her secrets.
Characters begin to develop, and we learn that Charles Wallace and Meg Murray are very close siblings, and Charles seems to have the ability to know whenever Meg or her mother is upset. He can also answer questions directed at him by his sister, but were not actually spoken, almost as if he can read their minds.
from the teachers point of view; she tries to judge the Cunninghams and the Ewells from
The letter was given to her aunt and he asked her to write back to the girls and as nicely
lives in the past. She is happy to have her family with and be safe from
The main character Meg Murry is the perfect innocent child turned into a hero. The beginning of the story presents a 13 year old Meg as young, and constantly wallowing in self-pity. Meg enters the first chapter emotionally immature with a self-centered "why must everything happen to me" attitude . Although her five year old younger brother Charles Wallace is "rumored to be not quite bright" he is actually extremely advanced for his age and Meg's main caretaker.
There are a lot of fun and exciting characters in this novel. Anywhere from tentacles instead of limbs to a glowing/flying horse man this book has it all. Although the main character is not so extravagant. Her name is Meg she about thirteen and her full name is Meg Murry. She has brown hair and wears really thick glasses just like her father's. In the beginning of this novel she is very self conscious. ‘“School. School was all wrong. pg 4. This states that Meg was not a great student in school. Her downfall in school happened when her father left. This happens before