The book speak turned out to be one of the better books I have read before. The story line just kept the reader hook to the book. Also the book speak just had a good story line that had many questions involved so the reader had to keep reading. I choose this book for a couple of reason. First reason being my mom teaches the book at Loveland and suggested it to me. Second reason is my tutor said it is a good book. Last reason is the summary of the book online just sounded good. After reading the book there where no personal connections that I had. I think someone who would like this book needs to like questions. There are many questions in this book that can carry on for chapters long. Also some one who does not mind if the main character is depressed.  This book was an easy read for me, not to challenging. I had to reread some sections of the book to be prepared  for  some rereading.  Someone who does not like rereading passages or section in the book should not read this book. Some books that are like this are the perks of being a wallflower. They both have similar story lines.

The book speak is turning into one of those books you can not  put down. There are so many parts of the book that hook the reader into reading more. The part of the book speaks that hooked the reader the most was when Melinda was telling her story of what happen at that party. Melinda started off by first hooking the reader into wanting to know about her story. The author did this by setting the stage in Melinda high school. Melinda was walking around and was saying to her self how all these people where giving her bad looks in the hall way. Also how these people used to be her friend. So the reader felt bad for her and wanted to know what happened to her. The reason why the author went with a sad section of the book was to make the reader wonder why. Why is Melinda getting bad looks? Why is Melinda have no friends? If the reader reads this section of the book they get drawn in by all of these unanswered question the circle around Melinda. The unanswered questions make the reader want to keep reading and find out the answers. The author did a good job with this in my opinion because it made me want to keep reading and find those answered.

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, there are a lot of characters. The main character is a girl named Melinda. Melinda is a sophomore who has lost her way with her own social life. She has little to no friends anymore. Also her grades are dropping quickly. This brings us to her parents; I don’t yet know their names because they were referred to as Mom and Dad in the book. Melinda's mom wants her daughter to do well in school. She also does not like when her husband buts-in to her yelling at Melinda. Melinda’s dad also wants Melinda to do her very best in school. He is also very good at Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions.

 Melinda has teachers just like any other school student. Mr. Stetman is her algebra teacher. Mr. Stetman is described as a normal guy who is just in love with algebra. Also Mr. Neck is a history teacher who is really big on school pride. Melinda seems to enjoy his class. David Petrakis is just one of those students who never gets in trouble. He is extremely smart and kids are jealous of him. Heather is one of Melinda's only friends; she has her whole life planned out in high school. She wants to grow up to be a nurse.

Some themes that are beginning to surface in the book Speak are depression and memory. I feel that the depression is going to end up being the main theme of the book. Just by now I have read about half of the book and Melinda keeps to herself and sits in back of her class rooms. She seems like she just wants to lock herself away and cry. Memory is also a very strong theme in the book Speak. Melinda is the main character who just cannot get over the memory of one night in her life. A memory of a few hours that will haunt her for the rest of her life. The memory of the time she was raped. Which brings me to the structure of the book. The structure is all about tone and how Melinda does not want to do anything.  

I have started reading the book Speak. So far I am really enjoying the book, most of all the tragic story line. It is about a student who goes to Merry Weather high school. She was every girl's dream: she had friends, she had the looks, and most of all she was popular. Well at least she used to be all of those things. Her name is Melinda Sordino, the girl who lost everything. She lost all of her friends and people just look down on her in school. Melinda also lost her popularity, but still had her looks. The reason why all this happened was because she made one phone call, one decision that changed her social life upside down.



The summer before school her sophomore year she was at a party. A party with people who are underage were drinking alcohol. Somewhere during the party Melinda was raped. She called the cops and when the cops got there, they saw under age kids drinking. I do not know yet if people were arrested, but I predict that people did and the cops did not know about the rape? I think maybe someone ripped the phone out of Melinda's hand before she could report it. But what I do not understand is the why? Why did Melinda not tell anyone about the rape? Maybe she was scared or embarrassed? I predict that sometime during her sophomore year she will tell someone what really happened that night. I feel like this book is similar to the Perks of Being a Wallflower. They are both about teen girls in high school and their stories. I think that Speak has a better story line, but they are still similar books.

Copy of english Book Trailer

The thing teenagers look forward to the most it when they turn 16 and take their driving test. That is of course if they past their test and go to driving school. But why is driving school so long? Why do you half to go? Teenagers wounder theses questions all the time. The answer is they half to and they must learn sometime.                                                    
                                                                               Most people say that teenagers should half to wait longer to get their lances. If they waited till they are older people would say the same thing make them wait. If they keep having to wait when will they learn. The truth is that most teenage drivers are good and responsible and it is the select few that messes it all up.

Think of that perfect day where you wake up and feel like you are on top of the world. When you get in the shower and the water is warm bouncing off your skin. And when you walk out side you hear the birds singing in the sky. You feel the air that is not to hot and not to cold. Well "she" came home from school and was happy just very happy. 

She was so happy that when she got home from school she did not mind doing her chores.  " When I got home, I had to mow the lawn for my allowance, and I didn't mind it one bit." Of course a little money wont hurt anything. She realized that your whole day can swing to better or worse just by how you wake up and start the day.