Melinda Sordino

many, if not all, of our choices, directly affect others and the people around them. A novel that highlights this fact is Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. One piece of evidence showing choice affecting others in Speak is after Andy Evans raped Melinda Sordino at a senior party. Andy wasn’t treated too differently until nearly a year…

Melinda Sordino, a 14 year old teenager at a high school, gets raped by a senior during the summer before her freshman year. Throughout the novel, Melinda keeps on remembering what Andy Evans, the senior who raped Melinda, had done to her during the summer. In the novel speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the motif “mirror” presents Melinda’s journey to self-acceptance by displaying her first as a girl who refuses to look at herself, then as a girl that tries to seek herself, and lastly as a girl…

That summer everything changed for Melinda Sordino. Freshmen were still learning about high school and who people were, but that night at the party changed everything for Melinda and we will discover what happen throughout the book. This book is called Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's about a girl who was just entering high school. She went to a party over that summer before freshman year. At the party all of the kids were drinking and some drank too much. Melinda got raped by a kid named…

If you ask any woman on the planet, they have likely experienced sexism--it could be objectification, assault, or harassment. Melinda Sordino is no exception. The narrative, Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, follows Melinda through her first year of high school after being raped the summer previous. Exploring topics such as sexual assault, everyday sexism, relationships between women, and the lack of power given to women, Speak is a text that defines and highlights the experiences of…

Laurie Halse Anderson talks about a Young girl by the name of Melinda Sordino a freshman a high school. Over the summer she is raped and goes through a whole year of silence with no friends and talking about her sexual assault. “It’s easer not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All the crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really want to hear what you have to say” (pg.9). Melinda feels like it’s easier to stay quiet about her rape…

In the book Speak and Tuesdays with Morrie the characters both have different background of where they come from and how they were brought up. The characters name in Speak is Melinda Sordino, she is emotional and can only show her feelings with her body language by biting her hands and lips. Which shows why she is emotional and depressed. Morrie Schwartz from Tuesdays with Morrie was a school teacher that developed a terminal disease called ALS at the age of 80. Morrie was a Professor of…

insignificant. In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, a young woman named Melinda Sordino, experiences the horror of sexual assault. Unfortunately, her family life shows a level of dysfunction that inhibits her ability to immediately come to terms with her trauma. The lack of interaction between Melinda and her parents creates a difficult situation, leading to a sharp decline in her emotional, behavioral, and social well-being. Melinda experienced a traumatic event that introduced caos into…

In the book speak I have heard many people say that the main character Melinda Sordino shows more fear and resentment than courage in the book speak. In my perspective she was very brave for even putting up and living life after what had happened to her. Many people would become depressed over what had happened or just given up on life itself but not her and Melinda shows courage throughout the book not in any bold extravagant ways but through her own little examples. In the book when they talk…

heavily represented through the protagonist Melinda Sordino--a young high schooler who experiences fear, loneliness, and the feeling of not having a voice after being raped and calling the cops at a summer party. Throughout Speak, gender is proven to be a social construct that causes the main obstacles in the plot. From the beginning, gender is shown to be a social construct solidified by the actions of the antagonist, Andy Evans, towards Melinda and girls in general. “Beast: ‘You’re not…

fact that someone can ache internally; therefore in the novel Speak, Melinda Sordino suffers mentally. Throughout the novel Melinda is not yet mentally recovered due to what had happened to her at a party that took place over the summer. She narrates, “My goal is to go home and take a nap” (Anderson 24). Sleeping is a way she copes with her not wanting to speak about the terrible experience she went through. If Melinda were…