Many times she freezes up and hopes that andy wont see her and when he does, she takes off and runs away. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak. Andrew has completed some 50 assignments for national geographic, reporting live from all seven continents and over one hundred countries. Andy was dating rachel for a period of time in the 4th marking period. This helps melinda understand that the rape isnt her fault. Study 38 terms speak part 4 study guide flashcards quizlet. The word or phrase can be a name, a thing, or whatever you like. Rachel publicly leaves him at prom after discovering that he raped melinda. It stars kristen stewart as melinda sordino, a high school freshman who practically stops talking after a senior student rapes her. Melinda tried to call 911 to help her, but she didnt know what to tell them.
How does the reader know that other people in the school have been sexually harrassed or raped by andy evans melinda writes a note saying to stay away from andy on the bathroom wall. Speak is about 10% based on the depression i suffered after i was raped, and 90% fiction. In the novel speak by laurie halse anderson, melinda goes through a traumatizing. Andy founded international digital advertising sales company net communities limited in 1999, which. May 10, 2011 laurie halse anderson is a new york times bestselling author of books for kids of all agesincluding fever 1793, chains, twisted, and many others. Oct 25, 2010 hi im doing a report on andy evans from the book speak and need all the fact on andy evans like,personality, description, relationship, etc. We see him as a grim, shadowy monster scaring the heck out of melinda. Andy evans was a senior in high school as well as the rapist of melinda sordino. He rapes melinda at a party the summer before her first year of high school. Hes a high school senior who seems to have a long history of sexually assaulting girls. He met melinda at a party, and he took her into the woods to rape her. Even after her second attack, when the entire school learns of her history with andy evans, melinda still has not spoken, the lacrosse team has.
Matters grow even worse when ita senior named andy evans begins to flirt with one of the marthas, harassing melinda as he does so. We know his family is wealthy, that hes good looking. Ever since she called 911 from a teen party, melinda has quieted her voice, literally and figuratively. She is grateful that at least andy is not present this time.
It is also a pronoun amd like so many things in this book it begins small and grows asmore of the. Melinda feels like she is the helpless prey of andy evans and acts a lot like a scared rabbit would. Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by laurie halse anderson that tells the story. A rabbit and wolf relationship is predator and prey. Andrews flowers in the attic, after christopher begs cathy to forgive him for raping her, she comforts him by insisting that she wanted it just as much as he did and couldve stopped him if shed wanted to. The wayne county sheriffs office said former mayor floyd anthony andy evans was found dead at about 1. It is a fantastic, breathtaking novel, and i thoroughly reccomend it.
Andy evans also known as it or andy beast to melinda, andy is the primary antagonist in speak. The first, about social casting, runs throughout the book in characters like heather and andy evans. She often refers to him as it or the beast in the book. Hearing about her terrible grades, melindas parents scream at her. The young adult novel speak by awardwinning author laurie halse anderson is a michael l. How does the book speak relate to laurie halse anderson answers. This stunning look at sexual assault and peer pressure is presented in a highly readable form. I am a firm believer in that books should be written for a reason. Andy raped melinda at the summer party she attended. See all books authored by andrew evans, including the secrets of musical confidence. Melinda mel sordino is the main character and narrator of laurie halse andersons 1999 novel speak. Andy is important to the novel as an antagonist, but the focus of speak is melinda, like the focus of alice sebolds the lovely bones is susie salmon, another teenage victim of rape. Speak study guide contains a biography of laurie halse anderson, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary. How to maximise your performance potential, and the integration of the european community and third states in europe.
Andy evans raped me in august when i was drunk and too young to know what was happening. Andy evans books list of books by author andy evans. Known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, her work has earned numerous national and state awards, as well as international recognition. But dont go thinking they are the same, because they each have different stories to tell. After raping melinda at a summer party, he continues to antagonize her throughout the novel, showing his inability to empathize with others. The graphic novel is hypnotizing and heartbreaking, with the kind of empowering finish that unshackles protagonist and readers alike.
Get everything you need to know about andy evans in speak. He is a narcissistic senior in high school who is used to getting his way, either through charm or by force. In the first marking period of the novel, speak, melinda sordino, the main character, attends her first few days of being a freshman at merryweather high. The choppy sentences and blank spaces on the pages relate to melindas fascination with cubism. If the response to melindas anti andy graffiti is proof, melinda is not the first girl raped by andy, nor is she the first to keep quiet about the attack. Most obviously, it refers literally to melindas inability to use oral speech after andy rapes her. Until he lost her trust at the senior prom leading rachel to brake up with him. Speak by laurie halse anderson plot summary litcharts.
This villain was proposed and approved by villains wikis pure evil proposals thread. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one. In my mind, one of the worst things you can do to someone in a nonphysical way is to take their identity. Andrew evans books list of books by author andrew evans. Saturday at one of his properties at 129 evans farm road. Combo with speak quotes and 1 other flashcards quizlet. The film is told through melindas eyes and is wrought with her sardonic humor and blunt honesty. Speak is a 2004 american independent comingofage teen drama film based on the awardwinning 1999 novel of the same name by laurie halse anderson.
Blog careers get your school listed teach for us press center. Since melinda thought andy was nice at first, and trusted him enough to be alone with him, she no longer trusts her ability to judge character. Melinda refuses to speak, and spends the night in her bedroom closet, scratching at her wrist with a paperclip until blood appears. Andy evans tries to rape melinda in her broom closet at the climax. She turns the mirror around in her bedroom and covers the mirror in her closet. In a stunning first novel, anderson uses keen observations and vivid imagery to pull readers into the head of an isolated teenager. People have added more graffiti warning people about andy evans. In addition, people who could speak but fail to do. Special operations command panavia tornado the royal marines in the 90s.
Andrew andy evans is the main antagonist of the 2004 drama film speak. The speak quotes below are all either spoken by andy evans or refer to andy evans. She experiences sexual harassment in the form of name calling, from other students, and touching, from a mystery guy, i. This is the main way we, and melinda and ivy, learn that andy s made a career of victimizing the girls at school. In speak, as well as in the lovely bones, the experience of the victim is more important than trying to understand the motives of the attacker. Usually the first letter of each line is capitalized. He is very patient with her and when she is able to speak, it is often to him. After only a few days, tons of other students have responded to her comment on the stall. Andy evans pulls this on melinda in the climax, right before trying to rape her. A popular and handsome upperclassman, andy evans raped melinda at a party the summer before speak begins.
Melinda, given how she rarely speaks but her sarcastic side. Despite his friendly facade, he also has a terrible reputation at school, with many girls reporting his violent behavior. He is a sleazy, but attractive, senior boy with a reputation for inappropriate behavior with girls. Throughout the novel, ivy is kind and supportive, helping melinda to see the good in her peers once again.
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David petrakis he is melindas biology lab partner and one of her only friends. However, over many months of painful silence and selfharm in the form of lip and nailbiting, melinda finally admits to herself that andy evans raped her at the party last summer. Reference guides for modellers and enthusiasts by andy evans 20081120 01jan1852. Why is andy evans called it maddie chartermagicandsteel because he did such horrible things to her. The wolf is the predator and preys on the weaker animal, the rabbit. Please answer as soon as possible because its due tomorrow. Born into the coalmining industry, andy evans spent his childhood dreaming of another place, one not blackened by industry, but green and pure, the land his grandfather, maksim culumovic, had once called home. How does melinda present her suffragette presentation to the class.
Speak, an album by progressive rock band i and thou. Speak test, the speaking proficiency english assessment kit from the educational testing service. Together, they write graffiti about andy evans melindas rapist on a bathroom wall, and are surprised to see how many other girls have had negative experiences with him. Speak campaign, an animal rights campaign in oxford. Apr 16, 2018 andy evans is a longtime digital entrepreneur who started his first business at the age of 15. After a blurred trauma over the summer, melinda enters high school a selective mute. Speak network, a christian student campaigning network. Melinda attempts to confide in her exbest friend rachel, who is dating andy. Excerpt from a 20 oped essay, waking up to the enduring memory of rape, by emily yellin memphis. When i was 16, after most everybody had left a big, alcoholfueled party in a hotel suite, i passed out drunk. Interestingly, however, in this initial confession of her secret, she still does not speak. She stumbles out of her chair and grabs her books off the table.
Andy evans was a senior who raped melinda sordino in the book speak at an end of the summer part right before melinda started high school. Her parents and guidance counselor try to get her to open up about her poor academic performance, but melinda refuses to speak to them. Speak is an awardwinning contemporary young adult novel written in 1999. Speak up for yourselfwe want to know what you have to say. Text to text speak and waking up to the enduring memory. What happened between rachel and andy evans at the prom.
Speak, the first album by the britishamerican dance band londonbeat, 1988. However, she is struggling with friends and her identity. Near the end of the book, melindas exbest friend rachel, who has been dating andy, breaks up with him on prom night. Any act of removing this villain from the category without a removal proposal shall be considered vandalism or a futile heroic attempt of redemption and the user will have high chances of being terminated blocked. He is the main antagonist of the book, and spends much of the narrative harassing melinda in various subtle but. Through rape, verbal threats, and andy evans getting caught laurie halse anderson. This tragic story follows fourteenyearold melinda sordino through her freshman year of. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Instead, she passes a note to rachel explaining the night of the party. At the end of the novel, the shattering of the mirror, and melindas use of one of its broken shards to threaten andy evans, demonstrates a conquering of her selfloathing, and a turning of the loathing to the appropriate object, andy. She only finds it when its needed to prevent a reoccurrence of the same horror. Speak is a novel about a girl entering her freshman year of high school. Andy evans cliffsnotes study guides book summaries. Andy evans is a cocky senior boy at merryweather high school, the same school that freshman melinda sordino attends.
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