heart-wrenching experience. After watching this film I was impressed with the theme and the way the actors played their role and many other things that people could like in this movie but what I am disappointed of this movie is that the main character Melinda Sordino (Kristen Stewart) did not speak a lot in this movie so it made the film a little bit gloomy. At the end of this movie I realized that you cannot expect people to understand your problems if you cannot speak because it’s obvious that we are not
severe distress. Melinda Sordino is also a victim of sexual assault, she’s seen going through the life of a grade nine girl trying to fit into a new environment, make new friends, and find herself, all while coping with her past. Melinda’s distant relationship with her parents leads to her lack of confidence to ask for support and becomes one of the major
written in first-person narration from the point of view of protagonist, Melinda Sordino. Speak is written like an interior monologue in the mind of an introverted teenage girl, like excerpts from her personal diary during her miserable freshman year of high school. Instead of blending in and finding her way through high school. She withdraws and secludes herself from the other students. She calls herself an "outcast." Melinda is so desperate to hide from the world; she turns an old janitor's closet
Melinda Sordino had a very rough summer as she starts school she is in depression mode because of what happened at the party and her relationship with her mom and dad.Having a bad relationship with your parents is not good it can cause kids to run off even commit suicide.The stress on Melinda is bad and it’s not helping the fact that nobody likes her at the school anymore because of what she did at the party.Melinda got taken advantage of and raped at the party,which is the reason why she called
and admit your past to others so you can move on to your future, and your life. The main character is named Melinda Sordino, her first day of highschool wasn’t the best day she thought it would be. Everyone that was best friends with her, now turned into her ex-friends. Throughout the book Melinda is trying to figure out why everyone is mad at her, and trying to find her voice. Then Melinda finds a friend who is new to Merryweather High School, named Heather. Through the book she starts to get her
Speak, the character Melinda Sordino went through the three stages of Bildungsroman. The first stage of Bildungsroman is innocence/ immaturity. Before the incident at the party Melinda was at the stage of innocence/ immaturity. Throughout the novel Melinda also experienced stage two of Bildungsroman which is test and trials. At the end of the book, Melinda experiences stage three of Bildungsroman which is experience/ maturity. Throughout the novel, the character Melinda Sordino progresses through the
In both the film and novel, "Speak" by Lauren Halsen Anderson uses literary devices to demonstrate the experience the protagonist, Melinda Sordino faced as a teenage rape victim, as well as the steps necessary to cope and move on with her life. Both film and book share a great similarity in the conflict that goes on, as well as the flash backs indicated throughout this piece of work. Also, the symbolism shaped by the protagonist makes it more clear to understand the tramautic event. Moreover, the
The book Speak by Laurie Anderson is about how Melinda Sordino--- an “outcast” girl overcome the trouble in her life, her growth in mind and how she learned to speak up for herself. When Melinda started her frist day pf highschool, she suffered from peer presure: her best friend left her, everyone hares her because she broke the party last year by calling the police, MElinda knew that no one knows the truth but she is go afride to speak the truth. Laurie Anderson used the sllusion of Rudolph the
the first time, with a heavy secret weighting on her. Melinda Sordino begins freshman year at Merryweather High School, being a complete different person. Over the summer, Melinda and her friends went to a senior party, where Melinda ended calling the police. This caused her friends and the people at the party to socially reject her, even though they didn’t knew that before the phone call, Andy Evans raped her. Due to the phone call, Melinda enters high school without friends and having to see Andy
be heard. Presumptively the novel is set in the late 90's at Merryweather high school in Syracuse New York. Protagonist, Melinda Sordino, narrates her story as a sexual assault victim. We journey through her freshman year and watch her suffer to find her lost voice and overcome her negative convictions . While her persona is revealed, we see that the rape forces change on Melinda through violence. Several months of self mutilation and bitter silence, she finally speaks up for herself and confronts
named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is by chance in light of the way that Melinda picks not to talk. The book is formed as a monolog in the mind of Melinda, a pre-adult self eyewitness. What empowers Melinda to find her voice? Everyone disdained Melinda because of what happened in summer, yet no one knew reality. In the midst of the pre-summer everything transformed into a terrible dream for Melinda. She was too much startled, making it difficult to shield herself. Melinda expected
The act of speaking out creates the difference between a depressed person and an optimistic socialized person. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, learning how to speak out is the main theme; the protagonist Melinda learns how to speak out about what happened to her during the summer. The act of speaking out is also exemplified through various methods by characters like David Petrakis, Melinda’s lab partner, and Mr. Freeman Melinda’s Art teacher. David Petrakis argues with Mr. Neck, the
Ivy Helped Melinda to Find Her Voice In Laurie Halse Anderson’s short novel Speak, a teenage girl named Melinda Sordino makes an attempt to face the trauma of being assaulted, while, at the same time, facing the rough transition into high school. Melinda’s friend Ivy is an artistic and unconventional fellow freshman who helped our protagonist most to find her voice. To begin with, she aided Melinda with her art more than almost anyone, with the exception of Mr. Freeman. On the day Melinda made an odd
SETTING: Melinda Sordino, a freshmen, and the rest of the students at Merryweather High School live in Syracuse, New York. Speak is written from a perspective of someone who despises school. Melinda seeks safety in her art class and an empty supply closet. Throughout the book, Melinda decorates the closet with her artwork and makes it her own. She goes there to think, hide, and for the occasional cry. Melinda’s feelings and emotions are in touch with the seasons. During winter she is cold, vulnerable
grade year, Melinda Sordino, her best friend Rachel Bruin, and two other friends attend a party with their classmates as well as high school students. At the party Melinda is raped by an upperclassmen, Andy Evans, and in a state of panic she dials 911. The operator traces her location since she is unable to say a word and the police come to bust the party. Soon after learning that is was Melinda who called the cops, her friends turn their back on her and go their own way. As Melinda begins her freshman
As young adults and teens, we all face social and emotional issues. After World War I, the Germans were killing the Jews because they were blaming them for losing the war. For example, Holocaust began because the Jews were being blamed. This was the main issue that the Jews faced. Hitler then got everyone to believe that the Jews were the problem for everything. This is just one example of how issues affected people. Issues are a problem that people face daily. Issues can be divided in to social
Speak Essay Melinda was an outcast and loner in high school who was overwhelmed, fearful, and confused with her life and her environment at school. She was always silent in class and afraid to speak in front of people. Many students today might feel the need to fit in with other people so they wouldn’t have to be looked down upon. As we take a look at Melinda’s life we’ll be able to see how she handles her daily conflicts. In the book, Speak, Melinda Sordino, an incoming freshman at Merryweather
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
(Statistic Brain Research Institute). Melinda Sordino is the main character in Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel, Speak. Sordino nearly stops verbalizing after an unknown incident. Throughout the novel, this incident is revealed to be a rape. This occurrence takes place at an end-of-summer party, at which, after being sexually assaulted, Sordino calls the police, causing the party to end. As a consequence of not maintaining her friendships over the summer, Sordino starts her freshman year in high school
In the book Speak, the main character, Melinda has had a major problem in her life. Melinda found closure to her problems by doing ordinary and unordinary things that helped her process what really happened. Some of the things Melinda used to find closure for her traumatic experience is listening to talk shows, trying to help her ex-best friend from making the same mistake, and by standing up to the source of her problems. While Melinda stayed home, she watched talk shows including: Oprah, Sally