The project is about a book, called
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. This project is actually the reason why I wanted to do my multi-genre project on a book.
The project includes poetry, an expository piece, dear readers, and visual pieces. The different genres were very effective, because I got an overall understanding of the main characters struggles in the story. The project includes nine pieces of work. There are four poems with pictures, an expository piece on rape, a list, visual of graffiti, a picture of a tree that she continually draws, and a dear reader for the introduction.
The author did research on the expository piece. The essay gave statistics on rape. Melinda, the main character, was a rape victim of her friend's boyfriend. The author was completely imaginative with the poetry pieces. All of the pieces were about a single subject and included a visual. The poems to me seem like the authors way of making a transition from one piece of the project to another. The transition pieces are effective, because they give you an understanding of the character. Poetry gives the reader a personal understanding of the topics and emotions the character portrays.
I really liked the authors use of poetry. I am not a fan of writing poetry, but the author of this project made it the main focus. The poems are short, but get the point across. She even did a two voiced poem of the main character and the man who raped her.
Everything in this poem goes together. The series of events are not out of order and I like the serious approach. For my project, I want to use the dear readers as a transition piece rather than poems.
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Rape is something that is hard to speak out against, but if no one speaks many more will happen. |