Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak Loneliness is very bad for you when you don’t talk to people. Loneliness is bad because you can’t talk to anybody about your problems. So, Melinda shuts out the world and becomes alone. Laurie Halse Anderson (author), the main plot for “Speak” is to speak up of what you did wrong. Loneliness is very bad when you can’t talk or speak to anybody because everyone is hating Melinda. The three reasons in speak is not talking to her parents, Antisocial, and not talking to her teachers. When melinda doesn’t want to talk to her parents about school she will be alone. “The parents are making threatening noises, turning dinner into performance art, with dad doing his arnold schwarzenegger imitation and mom playing glenn close in one of her psycho roles. Melinda is the victim” (page 35). This

“My parents commanded me to stay after school everyday for extra help from teachers. I agreed to stay after school. After I stayed in school for extra help I go home and go into the refurbished closet” (page 50). This quote supports the claim when melinda wants to be alone so she goes into the closet and be the anti-social girl. When melinda has something on her mind she goes to the closet to let it out quietly. After melinda has gone off to school she can’t talk to teachers because melinda can’t take them seriously. When melinda has gone off to school she can’t take the teachers seriously and can’t talk to them. “Mr. Neck storms into the class, like a bull chasing thirty-three red flags. We slide into our seats. Mr. Neck is going to explode when the students are not in the class or in their seats. Which he does, in an unpredictable way”(page 53). This quote supports the claim when Mr. Neck explodes in an unpredictable way because melinda and the other students can’t take him seriously. In the final paragraph I will restate the thesis in a different