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Speak laurie halse anderson genre6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() There are a few side characters that are mentioned, but they never felt well-developed and they seemed to be there exclusively for the purposes of furthering the plot. The main focus of the entire novel is really on Melinda. The semester progresses and she begins seeing her attacker more and more frequently and Melinda must learn to have the strength to stand up to him and the courage to tell others what happened to her. Only her quirky art teacher is able to help bring her out of her shell by allowing her to express her pain through her art. Feeling alone and unsure of how to process what happened during the summer, Melinda becomes depressed and begins a downward spiral, skipping class and letting her grades slip. The rest of her classmates treat Melinda as an outcast for what she did at the party. ![]() None of her old friends will talk to her and they have broken up into different groups. Mortified, Melinda runs home without ever revealing the events that occurred that night.Īs the school year begins, Melinda notices a change in her social landscape. ![]() ![]() There are some unintended consequences when the cops break up the party and some of the students get in trouble. Unsure of what to do, she calls the cops. The summer before high school begins, Melinda experiences a traumatic event at a party when she is raped by an upperclassman while inebriated. Speak. Harrisonburg, VA: RR Donnelley & Sons Company. ![]()
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