Melinda Sordino, a ninth grader at Merry Weather High School, is a total outcast. At the end of the 8th grade party last year, Melinda called the cops about something that happened. Kids got arrested and all the parents found out. Now the whole ninth grade loathes Melinda. Including Rachel, her old best friend, now she is Melinda’s worst nightmare.
She has no friends, the only one she can talk to a crazy new girl: Heather. Melinda has no clan in High School, and now her “friend” might go to a goody to shoes clan. Of course Melinda doesn’t get invited in.
She has no friends, the only one she can talk to a crazy new girl: Heather. Melinda has no clan in High School, and now her “friend” might go to a goody to shoes clan. Of course Melinda doesn’t get invited in.
Melinda has gone from the girl who called the cops to the loser of the whole ninth grade. She can’t talk about herself, because there is no one there to listen. Her parents are always fighting and Heather is too talkative to listen. That’s it, that is all the people she can try to talk to. That’s all she has. So Melinda keeps it all locked up inside.
Speak is a book about a girl who needs to talk, but has no one to talk to. She needs to let everything out. This book is similar to The Hunger Games. They both have a teenage girl who needs to talk to someone but has no one to talk too. They are alone in there own worlds.
Melinda has a couple big internal conflicts, for example she has no friends or aquatints. She is a total outcast with no one to be with. Imagine having no one to be with, and having everyone hate you. Because she has no friends, Melinda has a external problem: her grades are failing. She can’t do the work. Just because she called the cops all this happened.
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Summary:
ReplyDeleteSpeak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a depressed girl named Melinda. Melinda has no friends in her first year of high school. The summer before her freshman year Melinda goes to a party, gets drunk, and is raped by a senior named Andy Evans. Melinda calls the police who come and arrest some kids for underage drinking. Melinda's friends get mad at her for calling the police, and she starts out high school with no friends. Melinda's only friend, Heather, leaves her to join a clique.
Her depression gets worse. She stops talking to her parents and starts skipping school. Melinda has bad grades in everything except art, which is taught by Mr. Freeman. Mr. Freeman understands her pain and wants her to express it in her art.
Melinda's old friend, Rachel, starts dating Andy. Melinda warns her. Rachel finally believes Melinda and dumps Andy. Andy knows Melinda told Rachel and tries raping Melinda for the second time. Hearing her screams, Melinda's old friend, Nicole and the lacrosse team come to her aid.
At the end of the year Melinda is considered a brave person. She tells her story and tries moving on with her life.
-Anna Low