Melinda’s grades begin to drop and she starts to self harm by biting her lips until they bleed. When Heather notices that Melinda is depressed, she breaks her friendship with her instead of getting Melinda help. Her parents and guidance counselors notice her sudden decline, but think it’s just a ploy for attention. Months later, Melinda finally admits to herself that she was raped by Andy Evans. She starts going to class and reuniting with her friends.
But no one knows why she called the police because she keeps the rape secret from everyone. She is constantly getting ignored and she is constantly scared and nervous so she needs to find a place to hide and keep all of her problems locked
On a seemingly emotional high after attending a high school party as a rising freshman, Melinda’s world got turned upside down when she was taken advantage of by a popular senior jock. Along with the pain of the trauma itself, Melinda was reminded of her terrible ordeal each time she came in contact with Andy: “I want to throw up and I can smell him and I run and he remembers and he knows. He whispers in my ear” (Anderson 86). When Andy encroached on her sanctuary in the art room and destroyed her work, Melinda shut down and locked herself in her closet, where she “stuffed [her] mouth with old fabric and screamed until there were no sounds left under [her] skin” (Anderson 162). While interactions with others could incite her anxiety and feelings of depression, continued encounters with her rapist further aggravated Melinda.
You are the most depressed person I’ve ever met, and excuse me for saying this, but you are no fun to be around and I think you need professional help’” (Anderson 105). Heather directly points out Melinda’s avoidance of conflict. Melinda doesn’t bother with social activities or any of Heather’s interests, preferring to be alone.
With ignorant parents, she was unable to get the parental support she needed. Even with the drastic change in behavior and grades, her parents had chose to ignore those warning signs and instead give threats using harsh language and threatening body language, such as grasping a knife at the dinner table(36) to force her to become “normal” again. To them, Melinda was acting like a rebellious child who was acting too “independent” but in Melinda’s world, the truest view, she was just a victim struggling with trauma she couldn’t speak about, suffering from isolation and shame. Even after Melinda’s mother had discovered her attempts of self-harm, she had simply played it off as a child’s desperate need for attention. Tying back to different angles affects views on a situation, this applies to the fact that her parents didn’t have any idea of the harassment she was experiencing or the fact that she was raped, they only knew that she started lacking in academics, giving them the benefit of the doubt when they assumed she was just acting unusual.
Melinda is raped by an older boy at a party the summer before her freshman year of high school. The impacts of this event are socially and psychologically devastating for Melinda. Her declining mental health renders her physically unable to speak about being raped over the summer. She is unable to cope with her trauma, and forced to suffer alone. However, she eventually becomes empowered to speak up for herself and about her experience.
(Anderson, 165). In this part of the book melinda is watching an episode of oprah and it's an episode about a girl who's been raped and melinda's subconscious wakes up and makes it seem like oprah is talking to her telling her she was raped, she just started to come to realization that she really was raped at the party and she was getting really overwhelmed and started feeling sick. She already knew she got raped, but she was in doubt and she didn't want it to be true which is why it took so long for her to
Drunk, dazed and violated she called the police on the huge party she was at. She soon developed a case of post traumatic stress disorder. Melinda became closed off and stopped talking. She never told anyone about her rape. All of her old friends rejected her after the call to the police.
Speak Essay Books can have a massive impact on one’s life. The novel, Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson is a book about a girl named Melinda. Throughout the book, it’s made obvious that Melinda has major issues caused by trauma. This is made obvious through the fact that she has no friends, she’s extremely insecure, and the negativity in her head is made clear through the effect it has on her body. Towards the end of the book, it’s found out that Melinda’s issues come from when she was raped at a party by a boy named Andy Evans.
Melinda was raped by Andy Evans. Melinda feels ashamed of herself and feels as if she’s to blame for what happened to her. She feels as if she has no one to tell about the encounter. She want’s to tell someone so bad, but doesn't see that telling someone about the encounter she had with Andy Evans would help her, but she feels it would only make her feel worse. There is no one there to listen to her, she felt as if no one would really care.
“She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. “If you don’t think you’re hurt, then you aren’t (Walls 184).” Rosemary makes Jeannette feel like she is insignificant to her and doesn’t make the effort to stick up for her child. At this point, Jeannette must feel worthless to her mother, bringing her self-esteem to a low.
I chose this book to better understand the emotional and physiological effects rape has on its victims. Statistic shows 1 in every 5 women will experience being raped in their life time in the United States (Robin, 2011). As one of these women that has been a victim, choosing this book was very personal because I was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. I desired to see how someone else in a similar situation survived with the stress and shame of being a victim. I wanted to grasp how someone else like Raine handled her situation and compare it to how I dealt with mine.
Unfortunately, one out of every six women have been through an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. But, their problems don’t end when the deed has been done, seventy percent of women experience moderate to severe distress following the incident and thirty-three percent contemplate suicide. Rape is a serious problem in our society today but, the process of recovering from such a vile traumatic experience can be arduous. The novel “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson perfectly illustrates a young girl’s struggle to recover from the devastating experience that is rape. In Anderson’s novel, we enter the mind of a 14-year-old girl named Melinda.
What is important, however, is how Liz reacts to that rape. Liz should rethink her feelings towards Jim. Her illusion of Jim’s greatness should be shattered, leading into disillusionment. Liz should learn and grow from this experience. However, Liz continues to live within her illusion, allowing her obsession with Jim to prevail.
Abstract Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is an axillary diagnostic technique for swellings in head and neck region. Its non-invasive, relatively easy, less painful and quicker method when compared to other methods of tissue sampling and readily accepted by patients and having a high diagnostic efficiency. Though it is a very simple method, it is usually abandoned in the field of dentistry due to inadequate skill. This article reveals about the history, armamentarium, procedure, advantages and limitation of FNAC.
