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.