Speak

Melinda is a young girl who has just changed to highschool.Her family doen't have a very close relationship,and that makes her feel bad.On the first day of school she was the first student in the bus.Her biggest fear was to be the person who will sit alone at the end of the day.Unhopefully it was so at the end of the day.From the first time she was a real outsider.None of her old friends spoke with her.They were andry with Melindo or they have changed so much that they haven't something incoming.Melinda didn't think about a change in the new school.She wanted to be the same as she ever was.In school there were many grups of people.Your fame on school depended on which group you joined.Melinda was treated like an outsider to.At the end of the day,she found one friend.It was a new girl from Ohio.So Heather,Melinda's new friend started to plan which groups they both could join.Melinda started to have problems too with the teachers.Only one was an exeption.Mr.Freeman was the art teacher and the nicest of all.He wasn't like the other teachers and no had any opinion of anybody.It didn't take much time an Melinda thought that no speaking is the best way for her.So she made it real.She only spoke with a few people.Heather,meanwhile has found a group and only used Melinda for works because she did really good at art.One reason of her behaviour is a very bad expirience in summer.A senior boy raped her an hit her.She also has been violed by him.This guy is making Melinda the life impossible in school.He also is the new boyfriend of her ex best friend Rachel.She also has joined an other group and is mad with Melinda because she called the police when that happened in summer.When the prom dance was near,Melinda tried to tell Rachel about that was happened.She felt sorry for Melinda but when she heard that it was her boyfriend she got more mad with Melinda.So at the prom dance,Rachel broke up with Andy,her boyfriend because he tried to hit her too and was too fast for Rachel in going on the relationship.Andy was very humilated and tried to hit Melinda an other time.So she hit him and won him.That was the time when she was a hero for all the girls at school,and wasn't an outsider anymore.




Do you like Melinda? Do you feel sorry for her? What, as her friend, do you think you can do to help her?

I like Melinda and in some way I feel sorry for her,but life is hard and nobody can be similar to other people.There are famous people and people who are less famous.The fame of everyone depence on themselfs,what you do for it,so I don't think that I could help her because everybody has to do what he thinks is best for him or her.


The movie shows better how the life is being an outsider.Many information that is in the book is not shown in the movie,so I think if you make a movie that has a book too,the film should have as much information which is in the book as possible.