Change In Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” quotation by Franz Kafka. In the novel “Speak”, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, there is a girl named Melinda Sordino a freshman student that lost her friends because she called the police during a party where she was raped by a guy named Andy Evans and ever since that day she has changed into another person. A single event can be an unimportant incident in another person's life but can change another individual's life by changing physically or mentally, it can also change by being another person, and finally it can change by discovering one’s real self. A single event can change an individual's life by changing physically or mentally. In the novel speak, Melinda lost her friends and best friends like Rachel Bruin because she called the police over something they didn’t even know about. Her friends in the past just laughed at her and acted like she doesn’t even subsisted. It exactly reveals to that they would not her accurate …show more content…
In the novel, Melinda did not think that she can draw a tree that can speak. But in the end she did and Mr. Freeman loved it. I just show that she just have to believe that she can do it. If we believe and do what we think can. We just have to inspire ourselves for us to do it. In the novel, Melinda did not know that she can be brave and confident enough to talk and shout for help. She does not know that she is capable of fighting back, yet in the end, she realized she fought back and shouted for help. It shows us that she just have to be strong and start to speak up because if she wasn’t strong and loud nobody could have heard her and she was raped again by Andy Evans. We should believe in ourselves and be strong because if we won’t we might just be in trouble or people won’t know what our backstory