Melinda Sordina's Pain

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Pain Can Always be Overcome
J.K. Rowling once said, “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” The main character Melinda Sordino, from the novel Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, shows the pain threw out the whole novel. Melinda is a quiet, unpopular girl, which leads her to keeping the secret to herself, causing her much pain. Much of the pain is from everyone beginning to hate her for calling the cops, when really nobody knows the truth. Throughout the novel, Melinda has gone through much pain in the story from her parents, people at her school, and from Andy Evans.
In the story, Melinda’s parents bring her pain for always making her feel unwanted. If she was not around her parents would not be married. …show more content…

Rachelle is mad at Melinda and does not want to talk to her. “Rachelle blows a candy cigarette smoke ring at my face. Blows me off. I have been dropped like a hot Pop
Tart on a cold kitchen floor” (21). Melinda always gets ignored, sense everyone is mad at her. When Melinda called the cops, she got the girls brother arrested. “‘My brother got arrested at that party. He got fired because of the arrest. I can’t believe you did that. Asshole’” (28). Everyone calls her names from her calling the cops. People at school call her ugly. “They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period” (42). People tease her sense they are mad at her. Do not judge people by the way they seem.
Melinda has pain from Andy Evans, because of the party. Andy found her at school and is trying to talk to her. “IT found me again. I thought I could ignore IT…But he whispers to me” (86). Andy talks to her knowing it makes her uncomfortable. Melinda sees Andy and does not know what to do. “I am a deer frozen in the headlights of a tractor trailer…He couldn’t, not in school…Why can’t I scream, say something, do anything?” (161). Melinda cannot move when she sees Andy not knowing if he will try to do things to her again. Andy is trying to rape her again and he does not think she will do anything. “‘You’re not going to scream. You didn’t scream before…You’re jealous that I took out your friend and not you’” (194). Andy knows Melinda does not talk so he does not expect her to say or do anything. There will always be someone in their life who tries to tear some else

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