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Transcript: Character Analysis Setting -Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson it has 200 pages. The genre of the book is fiction. Point of View Speak is the story of Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman. She tells her story in her own words, in the present tense. Melinda doesn't talk much to others, but she sure hasn't stopped talking to herself; she does a lot of thinking about her problems. “I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.” -Page 71 Conflict Resolution Character Motivation The setting takes place in Merry weather High School. Its a big school with a lot of average teenagers. Speak is set in Syracuse, New York, in the specific neighborhood and school, Merryweather High School. This location is important to the novel because of the weather, which Melinda Sordino is very used to. Her journey back to life after being raped is shown in the seasons. Melinda grows more and more fragile, and cold through the long Syracuse winter. But when spring and summer come, she grows, just like a tree. It's realistic and just because people don't speak about rape and other abuses doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The main conflicts of this story are between Melinda and Andy, Melinda and Rachel. The conflict between Melinda and Andy is the fact that he raped her at a party over the summer. She is traumatized by the event and he doesn't think he did anything that she didn't want. The conflict between Melinda and Rachel, her ex-best friend is about the party and Andy. Rachel stops being friends with Melinda because Melinda called the cops at the party after she was raped. Rachel hadn't known that Melinda was raped. They are conflicted about Andy because Rachel is dating him and when Melinda tells her that she was raped by Andy Rachel doesn't believe her. Rachel thinks that Melinda is jealous because Rachel gets to go out with Andy. Melinda is worried that Rachel will get hurt like she did Nancy Perez Period.7 Miss Quinn Prezi Semester 2 Melinda spoke up about being raped at a party during the summer to Mr. Freeman her art teacher. She no longer blames herself for the assault and anything that resulted from it. She is able to "speak" in terms of warning Rachel about it. When she is confronted by her abuser, she is able to stand up to him by asserting that she said "NO!." Most importantly, she has been able to gain a sense of self respect for who she is and what she represents. Melinda Sordonio is a freshman in Merry weather High School located in Syracuse, New York. She is terribly unhappy, because she is the victim of a rape, so spends her entire ninth-grade year trying to come to sense to what happened to her. She refuses to speak most of the time and she misbehaves in interesting ways to try to give meaning to her own existence or to avoid the pain she feels so deeply.
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