Speak

1.Book review

Laurie Halse Anderson won one of four award-winning novels with “Speak”, which was published by penguin group in 1999. She lives together with her famliy in New York. Speak is a book about a 14 years old girl called Melinda who was raped at a summer ending party and the author wrote about this because Melinda came to her in a nightmare.

Melinda become an outcast at her high-school and she’s very lonely because she called the police at this party since she was raped. Everybody exept for Melinda was in a group of friends or a clan. They are only mad at her because they don’t know what happened. Nobody talks to her until she meets Heather, who is new at school. Mr. Freeman is her art teacher who believes in Melinda.

She really needs help but doesn’t get it becauseshe doesn’t speak about her problems. She falls in a lot of trouble when she starts to skip school. Rachel is a ex-friend of her, doesn’t believe her because her boyfriend was the one who raped her. But finally she asks her boyfriend and he doesn’t give an answer so she ends their relationship at thr prom. Andy, the ex-boyfriend, force Melinda into a closet where he wants torape her again.

I didn’t really like the because I am not interested in such lame books, but the whole class wanted to read. Whatever here is my book review.

© Markus Lampert