Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a story of a girl that wants to make it through her first year of high school safely. The main character, Melinda, is trying to cope with what happened to her last year at a party. She was sextualy assulted by a guy that is now at the same school as her. The police were called by her and then she lost all her friends because of it. This story is how she tried to make it through her first year without too much pain. In the beginning of the book Melinda is able to make one friend, and that happened to be a new girl named Heather. As a first attempt to make a friend Heather spots Melinda alone and decides to try and befriend her. Although with the passing of time Heather finds a new crowd to hang out with. Melinda starts to feel excluded, and one day during lunch Heather tries to break ties with her. This seems hard for them both, but it was something that felt like it needed to be done. …show more content…
She started to hang out with the foreign exchange students and decided she wanted to be called Rachell. Rachel, wait no, Rachell starts dating the guy that had assaulted Melinda at the party, Andy Evans. One day in the library Rachell and Melinda had a bit of a conversation, although it ended up on paper since the librarian didn’t want there to be any noise. They did end up discussing the party and Melinda told Rachell what happened, although when she writes that it was Andy Rachell get mad and claims that Melinda is a