Speak
Anderson, L.H. (1999). Speak. NY:
Penguin.
Melinda is an outcast. Before school started,
there was a party. Melinda was sexually assaulted by the most popular boy on
the football team and she called the cops. Before the incident at the party,
she had lots of friends, but they have since abandoned her. She can’t tell
anyone so she becomes mostly silent. The one friend she had distances herself
to hang with the Martha’s and her parents are too busy with their busy lives to
have the time to deal with her. She finds solace in her art teacher and a tiny closet
at school. Her first year of high school is plagued with bullying, loneliness,
depression, anger and despair. She is forced to face her attacker on several
occasions until she finds the courage to stand up for what is right and speak.
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