Throughout most the book Melinda doesn't have any friends. She is friends with Heather, but it's not a real friendship because Melinda doesn't like her or talks to her and Heather is self centred and ditches Mel once she befriends the popular girls.
Melinda misses her old friends, like Rachel and Ivy, who stopped speaking to her because of the incident at the party.
Melinda's best friend in the book "Speak" is named Heather. She becomes Melinda's new friend in high school after Melinda begins to distance herself from her old friends.
she has no friends because they all hate her.
Rachel and Ivy were Melinda's best friends
Heather
Mr. Freeman
Mr. Freeman
In the book "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda's initial reaction to Andy when he approached her at the party was discomfort and fear. She felt uneasy and cautious around him because she remembered the traumatic event that occurred between them over the summer.
Gemma's best friend in Jacqueline Wilson's book is called Alice.
Steve
Melinda's turkey bone project represents her attempt to communicate the trauma and pain she is carrying due to being sexually assaulted. By using art as an outlet, she tries to express her emotions and experiences in a different way. The project also symbolizes Melinda's struggle to find her voice and speak out about what happened to her.
Leslie Margolis is the author of Girl's Best Friend (A Maggie Brooklyn Mystery)
No one is really a true friend to her. Her friends from last year won't talk to her and Heather stops being her friend to hang out with the Marthas
Westchester, NY
Her best friend was Rhiannon but she turns mean so in the end it is Susan
In the book "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, the image that triggers a traumatic memory for Melinda is a janitor's buffing machine. This machine reminds her of the night of the end-of-summer party where she was assaulted by a senior student. Seeing the machine triggers her PTSD and causes her to repress the memory until she can finally confront it.
The book "Speak" got it's title because Melinda never speaks up. The whole point of the book is her finally speaking up about her rape. By the way, best book ever!
Chloe is Nikki's best friend in this book as well as zoey
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