Speak Book Report

Melinda faces many hardships throughout the novel, one of the major difficulties she faces is to accept the reality. Melinda

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story of Melinda Sordino, a ninth grader that attends Merryweather Highschool in Syracuse, NewYork. The author has a unique way of writing Melinda's story. She uses subtitles instead of chapters, nd goes into detail of Melinda's everyday life, by using Melinda's perspective. The author sets a depressed mood in the story because of what the main character has gone through. The central idea of the text is communication which in the beginning Melinda lacks. August before her freshman year, Melinda and her friends show up at a senior party. At the party, Melinda ends up drinking. Andy Evans takes advantage of her drunken state and rapes her. She is too drunk to defend herself. Afterward Melinda deals 911 and the police arrive at the party, but Melinda is unable to confess what happened. When the entire school knows that Melinda was the one who called the police, everyone, including her friends, stopped speaking to her. No one knew the real reason behind the 9-11 call. Throughout the school year she cuts her wrist, skips school, and fails her classes. Melinda goes through a tough time in high school. She has one friend (who later on in the book betrays her), a difficult family, and was a victim

In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is raped before her freshman year and is experiencing a difficult start to freshman year with no one wanting to befriend her. Her parents are not paying attention or acknowledging her, which makes them act like a dysfunctional family. Later on in the year, she slowly begins to heal and progress from the traumatic effects of rape. This leads Melinda to reveal the truth about what happened at the party in the summer and it increases her social life, and allows her to be more open. Anderson describes Melinda as a depressed outcast who is having a hard time recovering from her assault of rape due to her home life and relationship with her parents such as maintaining a detrimental environment at home with one another by not communicating. This serves as a parallel to her dysfunctional year at school and home life style affecting the way that she

When she starts school that fall, no one talks to her about what happened and Melinda ends up staying quiet. She tries to act like the event never happened and this has a very bad impact on her relationships at school. On her first day, it can clearly be seen that she is a social outcast. No one talks to her as they blame her for being the reason the party got busted. This further pushes Melinda into silence, eventually leading her into depression.

Melinda showed a lot of courage in this book. She was put in a lot of new situations, that required her to make some hard decisions. Such as when she is told that she needs to read her suffragette report in front of the class. She could've just easily read her paper in front of the class but instead she wrote her essay on the board. Then Melinda says, “The suffragettes fought for the right to speak.

Melinda was an outcast and loner in high school who was overwhelmed, fearful, and confused with her life and her environment at school. She was always silent in class and afraid to speak in front of people. Many students today might feel the need to fit in with other people so they wouldn’t have to be looked down upon. As we take a look at Melinda’s life we’ll be able to see how she handles her daily conflicts. In the book, Speak, Melinda Sordino, an incoming freshman at Merryweather High, starts her year off with a terrible start. She’s stuck with a mean history teacher, by who she calls Mr. Neck and a whole bunch of other weird teachers like her English teacher of who she calls, Hairwomen, because of her crazy, uncombed

She didn't reveal what happened to Melinda until the end of the third marking period, you only got tidbits of what happened to Melinda during the party in the Summer. Melinda didn't even realize what had happened to her, it felt as if you were going along the story with her.

When she was packing all her pictures to take out of her room in the cleaning closet, she hears the door open and it was Andy. He tried to attack her again for telling Rachel that he raped her. The LaCrosse team heard the noise of Melinda fighting for her protection. They opened the door and caught Andy trying to hurt Melinda. After this all this was confirmed, Melinda felt free. She offered to talk to her mom about her tragic experience even though she had the option to talk about it later. Not everything is made clear at the end of the book, but a couple things are. Melinda was raped, it was not her fault, and she would have never opened up about it and realized she had nothing to do with it without her best friend dating Andy

Speak, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. What helps Melinda find her voice?

Throughout the story, Melinda shows many signs of depression. Teens will often display changes in their thinking and behavior, lose their motivation, or become withdrawn. Psych Info Online presented some signs of depression that Melinda experienced in the novel. The signs Melinda indicated include: sadness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, withdrawal from friends, decreased interest of activities, social isolation, poor communication, low self-esteem, guilt, and

The story started in an ambiguous atmosphere ,as readers don’t know what happened to Melinda she refused to speak she only wants to live in her isolation. some people in their depression tries to speak, and others chooses to keep themselves silent and get stressed when they are given a heavy workload, like “why me ?” ,as they are too weak or shame to face the world around them ,and this exactly what happened to Melinda in this novel .People experiencing passive anger may not even realize they are angry, because passive angry maybe repressed, it can be hard to recognize. In this long term, these suppressed angry feelings can easily be a main reasson for psychological suffering. As readers can only notice that she carried a folded story that will be displayed through flashback

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For example, Aibileen writes the book with Skeeter and gets more people to help. This is important because the reason Skeeters book started to come along was Aibileen convincing other people to help write. Also, Skeeter understands their problems deeply and wants to help. That Skeeter and just the girls all helping each other really reminds me of this quote “You are never strong enough that you don't need help.” and it just shows that no matter how strong you are you still may need a little help and those girls are there to help each other in their weakest times. Lastly, Minny helps Celia and recognizes her problems. This is also very important and key to the acceptance of Skeeter because before this Minny only associated with white people through work and even then she just did her work and left rather than getting wrapped up in everything like she is

She doesn't talk to her family they use post it notes to communicate.Furthermore, she has problems with her friends. All of melinda's old friends hate her because she called the cops at a party.They dropped her like a hot pop tart on the cold friend

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