In the book "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda calls the cops on page 125. This is a significant moment in the story as it marks Melinda's decision to speak up about what happened to her at the party.
Melinda tells Rachel about the sexual assault she experienced at a party over the summer. She confesses that she called the cops but didn't speak up to tell them what really happened. Rachel doesn't believe Melinda at first but eventually confronts her attacker.
rachel doesnt like melinda because she got them invited to a very popular party that everyone was going to and melinda called the cops for what rachel believes was for nothing. she only finds out later that it was because melinda was raped.
Melinda stopped talking to her parents and her best friends after she was raped, Melinda also started self mutilating such as biting (or chewing) her lips and scraping her wrist with paper clips. Melinda also started to skip school.
MR.Stiles
Melinda called the cops in "Speak" because Andy Evans attempted to assault her at the party. She dialed 911 as a cry for help, signaling the traumatic event she experienced and seeking protection from her attacker.
Ivy is one of Melinda's former best friends with whom she has art with. In the book she is one of the few people to become friends with Melinda again before knowing the reason she called the cops at the summer party.
Melinda Sordino: The main character of the story. She was also the narrator. Andy Evans: A senior who Raped Melinda at a summer party. Rachael: Andys girlfriend, Melindas ex best friend
Melinda is an outcast because no one really likes her because of when she called the police that summer while at a party! everyone was underage drinking and got in trouble by the cops all because of Melinda.
Rachel stopped talking to Melinda because she believed the rumor that Melinda called the cops to the party, leading to many people getting in trouble. Rachel didn't want to associate with someone who seemed to betray their friends.
Melinda was raped at a house party when she was in 8th grade. She called the cops and didn't speak, so the police came to the location of the phone call, in turn busting the party full of underage drinking. No one knew about the rape, so they assumed Melinda was either trying to rat them out or that she was just stupid, and they hated her for getting almost everyone into trouble and ruining the party. Also, one boy was fired from his job for getting arrested at the party.she called the cops when she was in a party
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops,so her old friends won't talk to her ,and people she doesn't know hate her from a distance.the safest place to be is alone,inside her own head.but even that's not safe.because there's something she's trying not to think about.something she's trying not to let in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens.and then she would have to speak the truth.
Ivy was a girl in melinda`s art class who became a little bit like her friend through out the story ivy is scared of clowns and has a little bit of a hard time having that as her topic of art for the year