Melinda, a high school student filled with anger and hurt, must confront the demons of her past as she starts a new year. Her friends have abandoned her and the evil that haunts her mind lurks through the hallways with a wink and a smile. An unoccupied janitor’s closet becomes her place of refuge as her grades began to fall and her anxiety grows. Everyone is angry that she called the cops the night of the big party and no one believes her when she says she was raped. But Melinda grows in confidence and knows the truth will come to the surface to save her.
Anderson, L. H. (1999). Speak. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
Speak embodies the characteristics of realistic fiction by being set in a high school and having characters who represent today’s teenagers and the struggles they go through as they navigate the exciting and sometimes dangerous roads of the teenage years. Rape is a very taboo topic that isn’t discussed enough in regards to young adults. This novel not only addresses the situation and how a young woman can overcome this hellacious event in her life, but also the issue of seeing young men who have positions of popularity in society as not being capable of doing horrible things. No one believed Andy could do what he did until it almost happened again for people to see.
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