SPEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!! DON'T READ THIS UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!! IT'S A REALLY GOOD BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melinda won't speak. Melinda won't do her homework or go to class. Melinda has no friends she is an outcast. And its all because of IT. Who's IT you may ask? IT is the most terrible person  on earth, and what he did was unforgivable. He didn't break her heart if anyone's wondering. He tore it out of her chest, still pumping in his hands. Because IT or Andy Evans raped Melinda. What is rape? Melinda didn't believe she was. She was drunk and he just covered her mouth, so it was her fault. And no matter what she can't speak because the monster inside her is eating her from the inside out. Melinda won't speak because she's scarred, and no one will listen to her. And whats the point whats done is done, you can't change the past.

Everybody has secrets, and this book is about secrets. Some are worth keeping others can hurt you. They can eat you from the inside out. And those secrets aren't worth keeping, because before you know it that secret will own you, and no matter how hard you try you can't escape it. Melinda is keeping a secret that's to hard to keep and its eating her from the inside out. And she can't keep her mouth shut anymore. It is  hard a traumatic thing to go through. And most people would say she's being stupid for not telling anybody. But the thing is Melinda is scarred and she believes it's her fault, that this happened.


When we grow older, we tend to keep more secrets from our parents. And although secrets are great things to have, some aren't. I'm not saying tell all your secrets to the world, you don't have to if you want to. If there something which we know are wrong, or we don't but feel like it. We should tell someone, because then that secret will keep on bothering you. Speak is about a girl who doesn't want speak because if she does she afraid she might be judged. She is silent like her last name Sordino. She won't speak because she is scarred, and we learn not to speak the secrets that bother us.