However, Heather becomes jealous of Melinda’s friendship with her and tells Melinda to stop being friends with her.
Melinda is befriended by Heather, a girl from Ohio. To escape the bullying, she goes to a janitor’s closet where no one can find her. Melinda becomes depressed and stops doing well in class. She decides that talking to people only makes them hate her, so she remains silent. She arrives at school alone and is immediately shunned by her peers. No one knows why this is happening except for Melinda herself no one knows that Andy raped her. When everyone finds out that Melinda broke up the party and got people arrested (including Andy), they stop talking to her or even looking at her in class. Afterward, she calls 911 but doesn’t tell them what happened because she’s confused by it all. He pushes her down on the ground outside and rapes her. She meets Andy Evans, an attractive senior boy who dances with and kisses her. Before school starts for the fall semester, she goes to a party with some friends and has too much to drink. Was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.Speak is a novel about Melinda Sordino, who’s entering her freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether.
She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say. The first ten lies they tell you in high school.
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