Laurie Halse Anderson's novel, Speak, is about a girl named Melinda who went through a very tramatic situation in her life and is now entering high school and trying to forget it. Anderson shows how harsh high school is to some people and what they have to do to conform or find acceptance. The themes of the novel are conformity and holding secrets. The main character, Melinda, kept the secret of her rape from everyone and tried to ignore it like it didn't happen. When she started high school she tried to do her best to be like everyone else. I enjoyed this book because it showed that when you decide that being yourself is okay and nothing is wrong with you, others will see that also and want to be around you. I also enjoyed Melinda because she finallly spoke about what happened to her and the world didn't end, like she thought it would.
Question: Why does Melinda feel she can't tell anyone she was raped?
Why is it so important to "fit in?"
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Melinda feels that if her friends are mad at her for calling the police at the party they would think she was lying about the rape, which they did. She wanted to fit in because in middle school she had her best friends and in high school everything changed and she wanted things back to normal.
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