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Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

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An important character in the book Speak, a bildungsroman novel, by Laurie Halse Anderson is Melinda Sordino. At an end of summer party Melinda calls the cops, nobody will talk to her, yet alone listen to why she did. The incident was that she was raped by a senior still at her school, he is still a threat to her and soon her friend, which forces her to speak. Melinda is important because of her story and what she has been through. Melinda learns the importance of having good friends, how to speak up and how to accept help from others. On the first day of the new school year nobody will talk to Melinda but the new girl Heather. Melinda and Heather form an awkward friendship and they start hanging out at each other's house, calling each other

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