Melinda Sordino's Speak

The book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of high-school freshman, Melinda Sordino. After busting an end-of-summer party, she’s taunted and teased by her peers because she won’t give reason as to why she called the police. She soon slips into depression and starts her freshman year off in “all the wrong ways.” Melinda needed help. Help with confidence. Help with her mentality. Help in general. Throughout the book, very few characters try to help Melinda but one character in particular stands out. Mr. Freeman.

Everyone grows physically. A person can be 4’ll”, and a couple years later they are 5’3”, Physical change is not a big deal. When someone grows as a person or emotionally it can go both ways, You either emotionally grow in a negative or positive way. The person can either become a better person, or grow with more flaws and bad habits. Speak was written by Laurie Halse Anderson, published on October 22, 1999. The story shows the character development of the main character, Melinda Sordino. Although teenagers go through emotional growth because their maturity levels are increasing, Melinda goes through a rough situation that helps her grow as a person.

Everyone has hardships that they come across, but what really matters is the way they overcome them. In the book “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda Sordino does not try to face her hardships, she wants her problems to just disappear, but what makes her different is that she learns that saying nothing will just make her problems worse. The author characterized Melinda as very brave, although it took time for her to accept her problems. Melinda tries to admit what happened to her, deal with the bullies in her school, and tries to help her ex-best friend, Rachel to see with whom she is dealing with.

In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Andy Evans impacted Melinda Sordino in a very negative way. Melinda was raped by Andy Evans at a party weeks before she started high school as a freshman. Melinda, who was scared and unsure, called the cops. But she was too horrified to say anything and ends up going home before they arrived. But the police do come and arrest people at the party.

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson the main character Melinda Sordino has a hard trying freshman year. She was raped at a party preceding the school year and hasn’t really recovered from it since. She lost all her friends after that party because she called the cops and busted the party, but told no one why-although nobody really cared to ask anyway. She lost all her friends and isolated herself from everyone while loosing her ability to speak in the process. As the school year went on her grades slipped and she periodically saw the boy that raped her which really put a dent in her already traumatized mental state. On top of that the harassment of the other students-girls and boys- got worse for example “The girl behind me jams her

In the book“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is “Melinda Sordino who is a freshmen in highschool that is having tough times fitting in after she called the cops on a party she was in and now almost everyone hates her, but then along the way she finds some friends who help her out. The message of this story is that no matter what you do you can always come through and defeat your fears of high school.

Through the ups and downs of life everyone makes courageous decisions to improve people’s life experiences and those that surround us. The book Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson talks about the ups and downs of high school while coexisting our personal lives. The main character Melinda gets assaulted at a party and has to work up the courage to talk about that night. It is important to be courageous in life to overcome obstacles and positively reach milestones. Many courageous people have accomplished huge milestones. Melinda may not have accomplished anything huge but Melinda did talk to Rachel about what happened that night, tells Andy no, and opens up to Mr.Freemen about everything. There was many more important moments but these were Melinda's most accomplished milestones.

At the beginning of the book, Melinda was at a high school party and was sexually assaulted by a senior student. This happened in late August, and Melinda is extremely scarred and traumatized by the incident. In the fall, Melinda is so broken that she cannot even speak – she does not tell anyone what happened

The novel “Speak”, by Laurie Halse Anderson captures the thoughts of a new high- schooler caught in some deep drama of the past. From the start of school, Melinda Sordino is shunned, glared at, talked about, and poked at because of one incident at a party from the end of last summer. With her friends turned away, her grades down, her family combative, and her looks deteriorating, what does she have left? Nothing has been seeming to go right for Melinda in and out of school since that night. She has silently appointed someone responsible for this situation, someone named “IT”, Andy Evans. Every time he’s around she feels sick. The protagonist of “Speak”, Melinda Sordino has become depressed, insecure of herself, and flustered around others.

Situation: Melinda is found trapped in a room with the boy who raped her. After she rejects him again, he became violent.

Melinda, or better known as “Mel” during the novel is one of the few major characters in this story. She was fourteen years old at the time of the party; this was when she was raped by a guy she barely knew. Mel did the right thing by telling the

Everyone’s identity has always change over time, for the better or the worst. This also happens in the novel Speak. In the novel, the main character, Melinda, has undergone changes over time. Two factors that shape Melinda’s identity are her family and friends. First off, Melinda’s identity is shaped by her family.

The significance of the title of the novel is that in order to be heard you have to speak up for yourself, others cannot read your mind and help you from there. Melinda suffered through her freshman year because she did not report when a popular senior, Andy Evans, raped her. No one could have helped her because no one knew about it. This reveals that the power of communication was built over human experience, we have learned that if we need support we need to speak up for ourselves. It is essential to have, you can gain loyalty, support, and trust.

Everyone has different experiences in life, and it’s these experiences that can shape their identities. In the novel “Speak”, the main character, Melinda, does not have the greatest life. She doesn’t have many friends, her parents have bad chemistry, and her school is overall a struggle to get through. The 2 largest factors that affect melinda’s identity are her friends and her friends and her art teacher, Mr. Freeman.

There is the book called Speak it is about this girl name Melinda who went to this party during the summer right before her first year of high school. At the party Melinda was raped by a guy that was popular, she calls the cops and, people soon found out that it was her who called. On her first day of school some people were bold enough to ask her was she the person to call the cops