Unveiling Melinda Sordino: A Dual Perspective

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We chose to sketch this drawing in honor of Melinda Sordino in the movie Speak. The reason we chose it to represent her is she has a very unique personality. On the left side, we have the inside of her; depressed and kept to herself. She’s shy and quiet and won’t open up to anyone. She feels no one wants to hear what she has to say. The left side, or the grey side of Melinda is her true self. It shows she’s not ok and feels scared, different, confused, unwanted. What hurts her the most is that she feels lonely; her lips are shut as in the movie “her lips are sealed.” Her lips are not literally sealed, but she isn’t telling anyone about her problems or what happened to her the night of the party in 8th grade. On the right side, this shows what Melinda shows on the outside, she acts Another theme we can take away from this movie is depression or sadness. Throughout the whole movie, Melinda was depressed because she had no one she could really talk to and tell them what happened. Melinda was also very depressed since she felt no one wanted her around. It seemed everyone was so upset with her that they just ignored her when they didn’t know the true story. Another important theme of the movie Speak is, “don’t judge someone for what they appear as because you have no idea what may be going on in their life.” We chose to include this theme since it represents Melinda the best in the party situation. She was very scared, so she called the cops; she was raped and scared. Everyone got very annoyed and mad at her for calling the police when she was terrified. No one had any idea that Melinda had been raped. The people just assumed she called the police to get them in trouble, when in reality she was just an average 8th grade girl that was scared. Calling the police was her first reaction. At the beginning of her freshman year, Melinda was a horrible artist that couldn’t even draw a halfway decent tree. By the end of the movie, Melinda was creating beautiful

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