Although, she meets a new girl named Heather and becomes friends with her, although they have little to none similarities. Even with Heather’s friendship, Melinda is still depressed until she discovers art and an old janitor’s closet. Although she’s somewhat stable after finding the closet, she sees Andy Evans in the halls and calls him “IT.” After her encounter with him, she begins to become miserable again.
Melinda`s behavior reflcets the theme because she has come to the realization that keeping her feelings bottled up will not
Also, the closet her “safe place” she always used to hide what happened at the party from everyone else becomes a dangerous place. “It”, also known as Andy Evans the boy who rapes her at the party breaks into the closet and tries to sexually assault her again. Melinda realizes she can't let this happen again and therefore fights back with everything she has. She realizes that her closet is not safe anymore and that she can't hide from her trauma. And that she can't hide from this problem, and she needs to stand up and speak to the problem.
A random students taps Melinda on the shoulder and asks if she’s the one who called the cops at the party hosted by Kyle Rodger. She nods people were making her feel guilty and horrible for what she did. The reason why she called the cops still remains a mystery but this explains why Melinda is isolated, and why Rachel stopped being friends with Melinda. whatever happened at the party traumatized her and haunts Melinda everyday.
Then starting high school people change and everyone ends up hating certain people for something they cannot control. Plus, they lose all friends they have in the mix of things. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character Melinda Sordino gets raped the summer before high school at a party. She was extremely drunk and called the cops after the incident happened.
To summarize, in the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, she shows Melinda as a helpless person at the beginning of the school year. By the end Mr.Freeman helped her find her voice and one of her old friends. She also stands up for herself against the guy who hurts her. Her let go friend is someone who thought she could win her back but she could not be Melinda 's friend after what
Melinda pushing those around her away is a direct result of her not acknowledging interpersonal conflicts due to the fact it’s easier for her to lose relationships than speak out. One day, while Melinda is eating lunch
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
We tend to pay more attention to subjects in the news that usually relate and have an impact on our lives. I for one, am normally like that. When I saw the list of topics to choose from, I felt like I had a good understanding of all of the topics except for one. Although I did have a base of understanding about sexual assault, I knew there was still a lot for me to learn to truly know the topic. Before diving into the issue, I decided that I wanted to focus on a few specific questions.
At the end of the story she finally found her voice and was able to stand up for herself. In the beginning, Melinda didn't talk to anyone, barely even to her parents. She says, “I have tried so hard to forget every second of that stupid party and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can't tell them what really happened” (Anderson, 28).
At the beginning of the novel, Melinda silences herself as a way to protect herself from the painful memories and
(Anderson 97) Throughout the novel, Melinda is perceived as a quiet person who does not speak and often mistaken for trouble. Melinda has suffered through situations that make her scared and unwilling to speak. Melinda has unfortunately taken advantage of and it takes her awhile to get back up on her feet
She does not want to be in the front, but she would not dare be a “backseat wastecase.” When she gets to school she observes the clans as they separate into groups. She describes the average peer as “Jocks” but then goes on to call people “Eurotrash” and “Future Fascists of America” and “Idiot Savants.” Melinda as the narrator sees the world very negatively. She not only views herself negatively, but she also feels the need to insult others with snide comments..
Melinda had to find a way to live with the fact that she had lost all of her friends and their trust, or in other words, figure out how to live with depression. Melinda had Rachel and Heather, but they left her because she was ‘selfish’ and ‘foolish’ for calling the cops. Melinda is not interested in gaining popularity and spends most of her time in a janitor 's closet at school. She has stolen some late passes, so she uses the closet as a hideout to avoid teachers she dislikes and painful interactions with her former friends. Her only solace at school is art class, where she is working on a year-long project to create various interpretations of a
Melinda, in a lot of ways, starts out like that it the book. She becomes a shell of herself from before the party happened and because no one else was there, she is lonely and doesn't have anybody to go to and to make matters even worse, she’s covered by the reputation that she has formed. In the book, Laurie Halse Anderson uses symbolism to convey exactly what Melinda can't say. In the beginning of the book, Melinda starts high school carrying her emotional wounds with her after something happens mysterious to her at a party during the summer.
