Speak

Imagine you are at a school where nobody likes you, everyone bullies on you, and worst of all it was because you were raped. Seeing that time passes you will get over it though, but not Melinda. In the book Speak by Laurie H. Anderson both Melinda is a complicated character and David is brave:this book also has a lot of things that relate to the real world.
Within this very cruel and messed up story there is a character named Melinda who is very brave. She stood up to Andy Evans (The Beast) at the end of the book. She fought him back with a shard of glass when he attempted to rape her a second time. Andy Evans was afraid of her because he didn’t want to get killed! Another thing that Melinda did was not tell her parents what happened to her when she was raped the first time. Besides that Melinda is also very depressed in this book. She would always sit and sleep in an old janitor's closet. After that she cut herself with a paper clip. Another thing that may make her depressed is that her parents don’t care about her. On page 88 her mom saw the cuts, she then said “ I don’t have time for this, Melinda” that’s pretty messed up.
While Melinda is a pretty complicated character, David is a brave one. On page 56 Mr. Neck (a very mean teacher) had a debate why his son did not get a job, David said “you opened a debate you can’t just close it just because it isn’t going your way” to Mr. Neck. He was then sent to the office. David was very brave for fighting for his right of speech. David also seemed to have an interest in Melinda, on page 109 him and Melinda were drawing pictures together. Another thing David did was invite her to a party it seemed like he REALLY wanted her to come. He didn’t really mind that Melinda would also copy his notes either.
Melinda and David ar erealistic characters in a book that relates to real life. Sadly there are rapist and people who beat women like that fiend Andy Evans in this world. The good thing is though that there are good people who help you like David and Mr. Freeman. Worst of all though is that there are stupid people that do stupid things like get drunk at a party and drive home drunk killing themselves and others. There also people who know that they are trying to kill themselves like Melinda cutting herself. There are also abusive or neglecting parents in the world .
When you get inside of highschool you have to be brave enough to tell people about things, even if you are in Melinda's situation. There are messed up people in the world and you may not have someone backing you up when your out of highschool, like your friends and family. If you don't at least try, you are just going to make things a whole lot worse.