Body image is an important theme in Speak. Use examples and incidents from the novel to explain how Melinda’s feelings about her body change. In the novel, Non-verbal communication has been communicated in the fundamental character Melinda over how she's lost feeling toward life and how it's influenced her viewpoint of the school and her day by day thoughts. Melinda begins the school year, separated as an outsider, by the mystery of assault, and by the way that her attacker goes to her school. A portion of her disengagement is deliberate; she purposefully pulls back from individuals. As said Melinda said in the story, ¨I figure I'll answer if [David] calls. In any case, on the off chance that he touches me I'll detonate, so a date is …show more content…
Since Melinda thought Andy was pleasant at first she believed him enough to be distant from everyone else with him, she never again has the capacity with that with any other individual. Melinda's sentiments toward Andy are abhor over the way that she can't act naturally any longer and feels lost over the way that he simply utilized her.”I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.” This statement represents Melinda's battle with her own memory. As hard as she tries to overlook what occurred at the gathering in August, the memory remains with her, regardless of whether it is beneath the surface. Now in the novel, she is starting to understand that hush and suppression won't prompt overlooking or recuperating. She implies two unique things when she says she needs to rest. To begin with, her uneasiness has kept her conscious during the evening and she might want to physically nod off. Furthermore, and all the more allegorically, Melinda might want to float off to a rest world where she is not any more Melinda and can disregard this new, disagreeable life she has wound up in since August.Then again, Melinda's fundamental inspiration for