Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
"They want me to speak” -Melinda (pg 113)
This book is about a girl named Melinda Sordino. shes a student with good grades and great friends, but has made some mistakes. At the end of a summer party she called the cops, but when the cops got there she didn't tell them anything. When the new school year began, her friends didn't speak to her, and people in school that she didn't know hate her because she messed up the party when she called the cops, and wrecked everybody’s party. Her grades start dropping. Her relationship with her parents got weaker and weaker quickly. Her parents know something is wrong but cannot get her to open up. Her only hope is her art teacher; he realizes something is very wrong and through the classwork, and the art work that helps her express her emotions. Melinda had a secret, you only get to find out about it until towards the end, but its easy to take a guess. This secret has caused her to fall apart, and isolate herself.. She deals with her seceret by mainly by not talking to anyone. She struggles with the truth.
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Cindy- This is such a well written post! I love how you started with a powerful quote from the text before giving your own analysis. You seem to have a deep understanding of what is happening so far and how Melinda is dealing with her crisis. Something to think about- why do you think the author chose to write this book in "diary" form? Why are we "in" Melinda's head during the story?
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