"Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Some people are different on the inside then out. Someone canbe crabby to people but then inside they feel guilty about it or hate doing itbut they do it to be considered a “cool” person or they’re making a joke and trying to make people laugh. Many of us think that because they are hurting, they have to take it out on other people that don’t deserve it. When I wrote this I was thinking of one character from the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I was thinking of Melinda because she was raped so she might feel different inside than what her emotional looks might say to people who just see her.

I also thought about her rapist. He might be really happy looking on the outside but he could be “grappling with guilt’ if he remembers that night because he was drunk. When people are intoxicated, drunk, high, or “out of it” people seem to forget what happened the day of or the night before.