Courage in Speak.
What would someone do if something horrific happened to them? Would they call the police and leave the scene without telling the police what happened, making the whole student body hate them, or would they stay and stick up for themselves? Speak, a book written by Laurie Halse Anderson portrays a girl named Melinda, who was raped at a party and later called the cops. After she had called the cops she ran away and the whole student body began to hate her because the police broke up the party. However, she had run away like a coward and never spoke up about what happened, instead she let everyone hate her; soon, she became the school's outcast. Unable to find her voice to speak up, Melinda Sordino faces …show more content…
A scream came from the person calling out that the police were on their way. After word had gotten out people knew Melinda had done it. The day she walked into school after the summer party she had observed that her friend group had broken up and the group no longer existed . "There is no point in looking for my ex-friends. Our clan, the Plain Janes, has been splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions, (Anderson, 4)." They soon came to tease her and call her names, then everyone began to hate her, even the people that had not been at the party. Even her best friend Rachel had turned her back on Melinda; if they were best friends would Rachel want to hear the truth? "If there is anyone in this entire galaxy I am dying to tell what happened, it’s Rachel. My throat burns. Her eyes met mine for a second. "I hate you," she mouths silently, (Anderson 5)." Melinda became known as the one person in her school who was not in a social group, an outcast, that was because of the rejection of all her friends and the leaders of the social groups, "I see a few friends—people I used to think were my friends—but they look away, (Anderson 8)." Could Melinda still have had her friends if she showed enough courage to stand up and tell them exactly what
What would someone do if something horrific happened to them? Would they call the police and leave the scene without telling the police what happened, making the whole student body hate them, or would they stay and stick up for themselves? Speak, a book written by Laurie Halse Anderson portrays a girl named Melinda, who was raped at a party and later called the cops. After she had called the cops she ran away and the whole student body began to hate her because the police broke up the party. However, she had run away like a coward and never spoke up about what happened, instead she let everyone hate her; soon, she became the school's outcast. Unable to find her voice to speak up, Melinda Sordino faces …show more content…
A scream came from the person calling out that the police were on their way. After word had gotten out people knew Melinda had done it. The day she walked into school after the summer party she had observed that her friend group had broken up and the group no longer existed . "There is no point in looking for my ex-friends. Our clan, the Plain Janes, has been splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions, (Anderson, 4)." They soon came to tease her and call her names, then everyone began to hate her, even the people that had not been at the party. Even her best friend Rachel had turned her back on Melinda; if they were best friends would Rachel want to hear the truth? "If there is anyone in this entire galaxy I am dying to tell what happened, it’s Rachel. My throat burns. Her eyes met mine for a second. "I hate you," she mouths silently, (Anderson 5)." Melinda became known as the one person in her school who was not in a social group, an outcast, that was because of the rejection of all her friends and the leaders of the social groups, "I see a few friends—people I used to think were my friends—but they look away, (Anderson 8)." Could Melinda still have had her friends if she showed enough courage to stand up and tell them exactly what