Arfiana Triandari - Juara 2 Erlangga English Speech Contest 2018 SMK/MAK

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honorable judges respect the audience

and everyone here today assalam alaykum

warahmatullahi wabarakatu first of all

I'd like to thank the Almighty God it is

because of him we are all able to attend

this contest secondly masala wad and

Salam always be delivered to our Prophet

Muhammad sallallahu wasallam

who had brought us from the darkness to

this bright modern era that we live in

today

and last but not least I like to thank

the judges for giving me this very

special opportunity to complete in this

contest ladies and gentlemen good

afternoon my name is Athena and I'm from

30 vocational high school standing here

before you all to deliver my speech I

hope y'all are feeling as amazing as I

am right now though to be honest I am a

little nervous but I'm not here to tell

you about what I'm feeling instead I

will tell you about a certain book that

I have read that has changed my whole

perspective on something in other words

this book saved my life now before I

start I'd like to ask one question have

you ever had this feeling when you see a

book sitting on a bookshelf in the

bookstore and the moment you see the

cover and read the synopsis you just

knew you were going to love it well I

have - a book entitled girl in pieces by

an honorable and well known writer

kathleen glasgow you see this book is

not just about pain and struggle and how

to survive but the writer has written an

amazing sequence of words and

combination of sentences with very

intriguing language that make this book

more compelling than others in his genre

girl in pieces tells about a girl named

Charlie who self harms because she

thinks she isn't good enough so she

starts cutting herself from the arms and

the legs and other parts of her body

but then in

she found remedy along the way she found

a way to heal she realizes that she

deserves to be loved just like everybody

else reading this book made me get mixed

feelings sometimes I cry in sadness and

sympathy other times I laugh in joy and

sometimes I cry while I laugh ladies and

gentlemen I'd like to tell you that I

myself self-harm not in the physical

harming way but more like emotional

hurting there are moments when I would

feel sad and ugly alone and depressed

but then I think to myself I remember

all the pain and all the struggle that

Charlie had to go through but in the end

she found a way to heal so I think I

deserve love I deserve happiness and if

I want to be loved by other people

around me then I need to start loving

and accepting myself with this body that

I am in reading girl and beast has saved

my life by making me realize that it is

wrong to harm myself and that I need to

stop and now I feel so thankful to the

writer

Kathleen Glasgow and her book girl in

thesis which indirectly led me to the

better path ladies and gentlemen there

are many facts telling us that a lot of

people are addicted to self harming but

this book I assure you will be able to

save those people as it had to me now

before closing this speech I'd like to

quote one of my favorite line from girl

in pieces I am tired and angry at me for

letting myself get smaller and smaller

in the hopes that someone would notice

me but how can someone notice you if you

keep getting smaller one more thing

while we are at it it's not about what

kind of book that you read it can be

horror romance or even comedy what

matters is that whether or not that book

can inspire you to survive

and help you face all your problems with

a big heart finally ladies and gentlemen

that's all for my speech I hope we've

all learned something new from it and

enjoyed it thank you very much for your

attention wassalamualaikum

warahmatullahi wa better party