Melinda Sordino

Melinda Sordino’s behaviors are best diagnosed as posttraumatic stress disorder with a secondary disorder of depression. Melinda’s symptoms last for a whole school year, which is consistent with the one month bench mark for most posttraumatic stress disorder patients. One of Melinda’s symptoms of her posttraumatic stress disorder is that multiple times throughout the book she bites her lips and nails to the point of pain and even sometimes until she bleeds. At one point in the story, she even…

art teacher, states, “You just chose your destiny, you can’t change that” (12). Melinda is starting high school not being able to speak the truth about what happened to her and why she called the cops at a party with lots of high schoolers that summer. Her ex-best friend Rachel, who understood everything about Melinda, now hates her, and Melinda feels like an outcast. In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda randomly chooses trees as her art project for the whole year, and is…

Is Melinda a realistic character? Yes i think she is, because high school girls all over the world are bullied and it hurts you even if you don’t notice it. The sad thing is that it pushes people to suicide or irrational behavior. Now if you in Melinda’s position of being a rape victim it would be very traumatizing and hard. “A scream starts in my gut-I can feel the cut, smell the dirt, leaves in my hair”. A quote from speak, that is so simple yet has so much depth. It was so traumatizing that…

Anderson, the main character is Melinda. The novel begins following Melinda on her first day of high school. It is very apparent to the reader that Melinda’s life is not going as she would like. On the bus ride to school she sits by herself and at the end of the ride she is the only person who nobody chose to sit with. At the school assembly the other girls, who Melinda notes used to be her friends, whisper and laugh when they see Melinda. This obviously affects Melinda, although she acts as…

of speaking up about a problem. The author takes us through the struggles of Melinda Sordino’s freshman year. Before Melinda’s freshman year of high school she and a group of friends went to a party full of seniors, and beer. It was at this party where Melinda got raped by Andy Evens, called the cops, and became an outcast. Keeping to herself about the rape Melinda struggles to survive the drama of freshman year. Melinda often found herself trying to ignore or hide from her problem because she…

negative qualities of Heather, Rachel, and Melinda.The qualities of each person affects them each personally. The first quality of Melinda “It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”(Melinda, 9) is that she is really shy and hates to talk to people.She will not tell anyone what happened last summer.She likes to keep things…

“Control”, this piece of artwork, illustrates how the protagonist of Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, feels and sees the world after she was raped and abused. Both the issue of bullying and sexual abuse in Speak are worldwide issues that affect people on a daily basis, and need to be prevented.The words in blue are her thoughts as she tries to decipher if she was raped last summer when she blacked out at a party, and if she should tell her parents what happened to her. The words in red are the…

Laurie Halse Anderson the author of the book Speak speaks through a young girl who has no friends and suffers through desperation as a freshman in high school. Anderson is well known for children and young adult books and has even earned the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2009 and was recognized after writing the book Speak in 1999. “Laurie Halse Anderson was born on October 23, 1961 in Potsdam, New York where she loved the fact that they lived near Canada.”…

is a senior boy approaches to Melinda and rape her. After the rape, Melinda quickly calls the police, but she cannot tell what happen to her. Other students think Melinda is being such a jerk who is trying to make people to get in a trouble. Therefore, she completely gets isolated from her friends and other students. The author of this book demonstrates Melinda's depression and overcoming her ordeal by usage of symbolism for…

However, times like those make us who we are which is strengthening. In “Speak”, Laurie Halse Anderson takes us on an adventure with a dynamic character named Melinda. Melinda was like any other teenager, until a traumatic experience turns her into a judgemental and isolated human being. Throughout the book, the reader follows Melinda into her deepest thoughts and see how she overcomes the event that traumatized her. An inspection of the novel “Speak” declares how Laurie Anderson establishes…