Entry One

  In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is a girl name Melinda Sordino who starts her Freshman year of high school really rough. During the summer before her freshman year she was raped by a senior at a party and she was drunk and confused so she called the cops and everyone thought that she called the cops to break up the party. So everyone in the high school thinks of her as a tattle tale, but no one knows what really happened. She carries the burden of this alone, confused and inwardly tortured.

  I'm wondering if Melinda will ever have the courage to tell her parents or someone what really happened that night. The setting of this book takes place Syracuse, New York where actually the author lives. Most of the book in Melinda's thoughts and feelings and it let's you get to know her more as a person and what she is going through. It really shows the struggle and makes you feel as if you were there with her along this journey. With all the jargon used in this novel I think it takes place in the late 1990's. This book for me so far is good and I hope that eventually she will be able to tell someone what actually happened so she can live happily without this heavy burden.