Analysis Of Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

The book ¨Speak¨ by Laurie Halse Anderson was about a girl named Melinda that was raped at a party during the summer by Andy Evans. Speak has many different themes; Adolescence, communication, growth, female empowerment, friendship. But depression was the accurate theme . You see Melinda go through depression and her not speaking up about it. Melinda knows she has depression but wants to forget about. My evidence for this is “the whole point of no talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won’t. I’ll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head.” I use this as my evidence because it show how Melina doesn’t want to talk about her depression, even wanting to forget about it. Another piece of textual evidence