An article once said “feeling isolated is a signal that you’re hungry for connection.” When one isolates themselves they lack social interaction, contact, or communication with other people. Before isolating yourself, you should consider the long-term effects. The author uses the climax of “Speak” to develop the theme of being able to speak up for yourself, not to hold everything in and isolate yourself. In the book Melinda states, “I am outcast,” this is an example of how she isolates herself and makes herself believe that she is an outcast. She also says “My room belongs to an alien. It is a postcard of who I was in the fifth grade. It is a demented phase when I thought that roses should cover everything and pink was a great color.” This
