Speak => Ana

In the book Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino the main character was a young girl who when on a summer night to a party with her best friend. She had a crush on a guy who told her how pretty she was and took her to the forest then they began to dance. The guy was touching her and she told him to stop but he kept on. Eventually he ended up raping her. That night she called the cops so the cops crashed the party. After that day she was completetly silent, she didnt speak to nobody at all not even her parents, she was traumatize. When she went back to school she was like an outcast nobody talked to her not even her best friends because she was the one who called the cops that night in the party. All her feeling she let them out by art with her project she had fto do or art. She tried to tell her ex best friend who was dating the guy who raped her what she did but she didnt believe her, she just though Melinda was yellews of her. She had in school a hiding place in school which was a closet to hide from everyone else. When she started getting better she decided to stay outof the closet and the day she decided to get all her stuff from the closet Andy(the guy that raped her) showed up. He tried to hit her, she was screaming and students from school heard her scream and heard when she said that he raped her. People started believing in her and seeing that she wasn't that bad, also the reason why she always was quiet and acted the way she did. After everything her mother picked her up from school and that was when she confessed to her mother about why was she acting the way she was lately.