1.Book Review

The book “Speak” has been written by Laurie Halse Anderson with this book she was the first time nominated for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. “Speak” was initial published by the penguin group in 1999. Laurie Halse lives with her second husband, Scot Larrabe, and her children in NY. The book told about a 14 years old girl who was raped on an end of summer party by an older boy.

In the summer of her freshman year of high school Melinda Sordino has been raped by an older senior called Andy Evans during the party. There upon Melinda called the cops and these broke up the party immediately. After this night she is an outcast at her school. Even her closest friends stop talking at her. The only person who wants to talk to her is Heather from Ohio which dismissed Melinda later for the Marthas”. So at least she only trust at school Mr. Freeman, her art teacher. Melinda has not been talking to somebody about her rape until one of her former friends Rachel starts dating Andy Evans but Rachel don’t believe her unfortunately.

I think Laurie wants show us how people are concentrated on them self, nowadays. Melinda called the police but nobody ask why, everyone just blamed her to broke up the party.

So even Melinda blamed herself. And at school, no teacher noticed that she didn’t speak, or her parents. Why they didn’t do anything? Why didn’t anybody recognize her situation?

I like this book because it shows a girl which overcomes her fears and become another person. I think it’s a very realistic story which could happen to everyone. I don’t like that Laurie writes very detailed how Melinda blamed herself in contrast to the end, when she overcomes her fears. This part was very short and besides to few detailed.

2. Description of the main character

Melinda doesn’t like and blame herself for the rape. After her rape she decided that it would be the best to stop to speak and so she redlines herself from everything. Melinda thinks that everyone at school hates her but over the story it turn out that some of her ex friends still like her. Also Mr. Freeman, the art teacher, likes her and helps her on his own way. After all she was never alone unlike she ever thought.

Melinda is a 14 years old girl which doesn’t have a lot of friends. Basically she had only three people which with she peak and that are Heather, David Pertaki, her lab partner, Mr. Freeman. Before the end she also can speak sometimes with Ivy. Melinda can’t talk to her parents, because they are very busy and that is the reason why she doesn’t want to charge her parents with her problems. In fact she has only Heather as a friend but after some time Heather dismissed her for the Marthas. Therefore the only person she trusts at school is Mr. Freeman and at the end she tells him about her rape what shows that they have a very strong connection.

The most pupils at school don’t like her because she broke up the party. If they would know what happens really at that time they would probably understand why she called the cops. The other people don’t even take a look at her except for David Pertaki. He likes her and invites she to come to a party at his house but she was too afraid and so she defeat. Her parents notice that she doesn’t speak and also her teachers, but they don’t help her, with the exception of Mr. Freemann tries to help her of on his wise.

I think only Melinda will change in the book namely at the scene with Andy Eavens when he tries to rape her again. There she remarks that it wasn’t the fault of her. He was the one who done something wrong and in this moment she overcomes her fears and she changed from the girl who stopped to speak to a self – confident girl who don’t think to keep her mouth. I think the best where you can see her change at her art, as her tree on her pictures changes also herself changes. At beginning her art looks like trees from a child and at the end the trees were not perfect but very good. With this dispartion trying something again and again she shows to me that she is a fighter and wants to live.

Sa

We will start our tour through Cambridge in Drummer street at the bus station but we won’t take the bus, we will walk all the way. First we walk straight ahead and on the right hand side you cn see Christ’s haouse. We move on and walk into St. Andrew street where we pass the post office. After a few minutes we turn right and walk into Prembrake street where we stop at the Whipple Museum which is a historical science museum. This museum is very popular among tourists because it’s one of the greatest in the country. Now we will walk again for some minutes then we get to our third stop, Corpus Christi, where you can study theology. This college is very famous because the building is very old. It’s one of he oldest churhces in Europe. It was foundes in 1352. Currently we walk to the market, which is open once every week. This market is very amazing because you find all you need here and at the stalls get the bset vegetables. We move on and walk straight ahead and get to the next stop: Trinity College. It was founded in 1546. Here you can study biology. After some minutes we will reach the university in Cambidge the Melhodist university. The university is an amazing building where a lot of people study theology because it’s one of the best in he world. Now we finally get to the shopping center and as I can see the ladies are amused. From outside it looks small but inside it’s great. Here you find everything you want. For the ladies it’s a paradise. We now come tho the last stop of our tour and as you can see it’s the place we started. I hope you ‘ve enjoy the tour. As I can see you’r tierd from walking so we atke a bus back to our hotel.

A virtual tour

A virtual tour

I’m going to take you to a virtual tour through Sulz. You will see that Sulz is a small town with only 2500 inhabitants. We start our tour in the Müsinenstreet at the restaurant “Altes Gericht”. A long time ago, in This building restaurant was one time one of the only courts of the district Feldkirch. Nowadays it’s a very popular restaurant. We will walk straight ahead on this street until we get to the new adult education institute. Through the week this building is a school and clubs can use it at for their training at the evening. At the weekend the borough uses it for activities. Now we are walking in the Kreuzstreet. In a few minutes we will come to the swimming pool.

The swimming pool belongs to Rankweil but it is built on the ground of the local authority Sulz. Exactly to our right site we can see the football club from Sulz. I’m not very interested in the football sport of Austria so I can’t say you if our team is good. At last we take the next bus to the hotel Rössle. The hotel Rössle, which is very popular by tourists and has a very good cuisine. A lot of clubs order their dishes for meetings there. As you saw now Sulz is a very small village which hasn’t t got a lot of sights but I showed you the most popular ones. Although the village is very small, Sulz also has supermarkets and a train station. I hope you enjoyed the tour.