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Melinda Sordino Character Analysis
Imagine being an outcast have no friends and have everybody hate you. That's just one day in the life of Melinda Sordino, Melinda Sordino is a protagonist in the “novel Speak” she is an outcast and is afraid to speak up for herself and face the world out of her safe zone.

I describes melinda in three traits Insecure, Sarcastic, Unspoken

Melinda thinks that she is an outcast she even said “I am an outcast there is no point looking for my ex-friends” she doesn't have any friends because she called the cops that one night when she got rape by andy evans she even asked herself while watching the Oprah show “was I raped.” She questioned herself to and on the first day of school she thought she would actually have friends after she called the
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