The Affects Of Relationships In Melinda's Life

Melinda debates whether to tell Rachel that her current boyfriend was an assaulter. “I could talk to Rachel. (Yeah, right.) I could say I'd heard bad things about Andy. (It would only make him more attractive.) I could maybe tell her what happened. (As if she'd listen. What if she told Andy? What would he do?) (…) I need to do something about Rachel, something for her. Maya tells me without saying anything. I stall. Rachel will hate me. (She already hates me.) She won't listen. (I have to try.) I groan and rip out a piece of notebook paper. I write her a note, a left-handed note, so she won't know it's from me.” (151-152). Melinda finally confronts Rachel and tells her what exactly happened to her, but Rachel did not believe Melinda as she really liked Andy. Rachel apologizes to Melinda when she realizes when Andy attacks Melinda again because he got to know what she told Rachel. Melinda was brave even though she was unexpectedly attacked by Andy for the second time. This time, she fought back before Andy could do anything that was seriously harmful to her and she threatened to stab him with a piece of sharp broken glass. This shows us how Melinda developed from a scared girl to a person who threatened to kill her

When she starts school that fall, no one talks to her about what happened and Melinda ends up staying quiet. She tries to act like the event never happened and this has a very bad impact on her relationships at school. On her first day, it can clearly be seen that she is a social outcast. No one talks to her as they blame her for being the reason the party got busted. This further pushes Melinda into silence, eventually leading her into depression.

It takes courage to go somewhere they feel uncomfortable, where you are hated. But because of courage Melinda was able to go to school and receive an education and she was able to make a new friend who didn’t know her past. On page 4 she says “I am outcast”. That line shows that she knows how she isn’t liked by the school but she went anyway and showed courage anyway. Since she was courageous, by the end of the book mostly everyone accepted her for being so strong and brave because of her

Melinda was an outcast and loner in high school who was overwhelmed, fearful, and confused with her life and her environment at school. She was always silent in class and afraid to speak in front of people. Many students today might feel the need to fit in with other people so they wouldn’t have to be looked down upon. As we take a look at Melinda’s life we’ll be able to see how she handles her daily conflicts. In the book, Speak, Melinda Sordino, an incoming freshman at Merryweather High, starts her year off with a terrible start. She’s stuck with a mean history teacher, by who she calls Mr. Neck and a whole bunch of other weird teachers like her English teacher of who she calls, Hairwomen, because of her crazy, uncombed

At the vastly anticipated end-of-the-year party, Melinda calls the police after being raped. Rachel and Mel were just going into highschool, so when Melinda calls the police, Rachel did not want to ruin her new high school reputation. She leaves Mel at the party to walk home without even asking what had previously happened to cause her into calling the authorities. With all the other kids, she thought she did it just to get everyone in trouble. Weeks passed, and Melinda finds out Rachel is dating “IT,” Andy Evans.

Melinda was completely alone in her situation because nobody knew what happened to her at the party. She refused to speak to anyone and did not let anyone

Melinda is very perceptive and bright, but her vision is sometimes clouded by her suffering. She's only fourteen-years-old, and she's dealing with one of the worst things that can happen to a person: rape. Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman, was abused by a senior student, Andy Evans. She calls the cops to report the rape, but leaves before they show up. The party is busted and everybody thinks Melinda got them in trouble on purpose. Nobody at school will talk to Melinda, including Rachel Bruin, who's been her best friend forever. Worse, just about everyone bullies her. She wants to explain why she called the cops but she can't find the words. Due to her trauma and inability to tell anyone about what happened, Melinda spirals into a dark

Melinda Sordino was just a young teenage girl trying to have some fun. Now, she is loathed by afar for something nobody understands. During a summer party, Melinda drunkenly fumbled for the phone and dialed the cops. As she enters her freshman year of high school, her friends refuse to talk to her, and she escapes into the dark forests of her mind. “I am Outcast” (Anderson 4). But something about that party was not right. Something she tried not to relive but to forget. “I have worked so hard to forget every second of that stupid party, and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can’t tell them what really happened. I can’t even look at that part of myself” (Anderson 28). Depression is a

Having to go through sexual assault and then a year of bullying made Melinda speak up. Melinda went down a rough road in her life. Through all this Melinda grew strength and wisdom. At the school Melinda warned the girls about what Andy is capable of doing. She told Rachelle to watch out and to be careful around him. In Melinda’s later years she began writing her about story to help her express her feelings. She began warning others what sexual assault can do people and the harms of bullying. Even tho Melinda’s experience harmed her in many ways it gave her a story to help

She’s not accepted at games, pep rallies or spoken to during lunch by others. Although Melinda does not like being treated unfairly she has accepted this outing and retreated to a janitor’s closet to avoid dealing with others and accepting what has happened to her. This has mistreatment has caused her to accept a friendship with Heather with whom she does not want and pushed away her best friend Nicole and Ivy. Melinda knows Heather is not her true friend because she abandons her and does not speak up for her when she is

Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Over the summer, she and her friends went to a party and Melinda ended up calling the police, causing her friends and everyone at the party to reject her. Melinda's only friend is Heather, a new student, who tries to get Melinda involved in the group called the Marthas just to try to gain more popularity. Melinda, however, is not interested in gaining popularity and spends a lot of her time in an abandoned janitor's closet at the school. This janitor’s closet soon becomes her “safe place”. While she is becoming depressed using self-harm and reliving the past she is silent she won’t speak to hardly anybody not even

These are evident in her self-awareness and inner struggles. While at an assembly for her school, she gets called out for calling the police at a party that happened the summer before her freshman year, the party she got assaulted at. She spoke, “It was like all the air just got sucked out of the room. [she] could hear everyone breathing and [her] heart was beating so loud [she] could hardly stand it” (Anderson, 61). This describes the moment when 14-year-old Melinda was confronted with a traumatic memory from her past.

Melinda had a “Coming of Age” but it wasn’t a good change. It’s something that will always haunt her. Melinda usually kept to herself and let people continuously hurt her. But finally she stuck up for herself in Mr. Neck’s classroom with the paper report (Even if it got her in trouble). Melinda also stuck up for herself when Heather tried taking they're friendship for granted and basically told Heather to leave her alone because she didn’t care about anyone or anything besides herself.

Her consequence was to go to MISS (Merryweather in School Suspension). “Andy Beast” is in MISS with Melinda. “I am BunnyRabbit again, hiding in the open. I sit like I have an egg in my mouth. One move, one word, and the egg will shatter and blow up the world” (Anderson 117). Which makes her feel uncomfortable and will not speak. Not talking in MISS creates a situation where Melinda must take increased mental torture from Andy Evans. She sits by the man who sexually assaulted her.In addition, more and more into the school year she is beginning to speak, but she isn’t quite fully there yet. When Heather tells Melinda that she isn’t fun and is very boring and depressed, Melinda realizes that she isn’t at all fun. David, her lab partner, start to talk throughout the school year and Melinda starts to feel more and more comfortable with him. “I ask David Petrakis for advice. We come up with a Plan” (Anderson 155). Melinda asked David for advice because she needed to present a project in front of the class, which Melinda is terrified of doing. So they come up with a plan and it helps Melinda communicate with other which is a wonderful thing for her; but the terrible part this presentation got her sent to

She battles between herself on whether she decides to speak up or stay quiet about her getting raped. In the end, Melinda was able to overcome this conflict and tell Rachel about it. In addition, Melinda has an external conflict with Andy Evans as he terrifies Melinda whenever he sees her. The climax of this story is when Andy Evans becomes trapped in the janitor’s closet with Melinda. The janitor’s closet is Melinda’s hideaway from the world. It’s a place where she can do whatever she wants without the judgement of anyone. On the last day of school, when she was about to leave, Andy walks in and slams Melinda back in the closet, trapping her in. He begins talking about how her big mouth of telling Rachel made her break up with him at prom. He goes on and on and when Melinda tries to leave, he locks the door and begins to forcefully kiss Melinda. Melinda screams at the top of her lungs while Andy was kissing her even throwing things around, but no one came for help. Everything stopped when she took a piece of broken mirror and put it up against his neck. From that point on Melinda was then a changed person. Although she was terrified of what just occurred moments before, Melinda was happy that she was able to speak