Imagine being a girl who has all the power to chance her life from amiss, idiotic and disorderly to bliss, exceptional and assuage with only one thing. Laurie Halse Anderson created the character of Melinda, this character who could have made better decisions to change her given situation.
Melinda chose to isolate her self from the rest of the world. She chose just hide out in a closet all day at not talk to anyone. She chose to ignore anyone when they try to talk to her she would just blow them off and not talk back. She chose to brush off anyone that tried to get to know her; she would just put up a wall and shut down and go hide in her closet all alone like she always does. I do not know why people keep trying just let her be the insignificant person that she wants to be. The biggest thing is that she choose to do all of these things and she can fix them if she really put her mind to it. The character that was created of Melinda should let people talk to her and let people in and have people listen to what really happened at the party. However there is a way she could have avoid her lack of knowledge by not even going to the party in the first place. Which means that she would nave not got drunk and not have been in the place were she can not even talk or react to anything. Even though Melinda did not does kids in her grade think that she is cantankerous.
Melinda did not just do one thing wrong she did many it was not just how she isolated herself she should have spoken up at made her friends and parents listen to her. The book is called "Speak" for very many reasons one of them is because she was to afraid and fearful to speak up and tell someone what happened at the party. Even though on the first day of school she her "best friend" before the party made time to look at Melinda and stick her tongue out at. Melinda needs to make her friends listen to her and make them hear what she has to say. No Melinda is to scared to tell anyone. She had some merge problems that she needs to figure out in her head. Melinda can not even tell her parents what happened at the party on page 72 she was going to tell her parents but she chicken out and did not tell them and she just went and hide away from the rest of the world like she always does.
Melinda could have made some much better decisions in her life. Don't be afraid to speak your mind and not hold back and live your life to it's fullest.
