The school bus drove around the block on the first day of school. Kids excitedly run towards their stops. For most kids the first day of school is an exhilarating day, the day of a new beginning, a time to see all of your friends. However, this was not the case for Melinda. She was a depressed girl whose life was a mess. All of her friends hated her. This kind of life makes a day feel like a week and a year like an eternity. A life where everything is boring and nothing changes. The story "Speak" written by Laurie Halse Anderson is a book that illustrates if you do nothing to change your life or what people think about you, nothing will change.
How would you feel going to your first day of high school knowing that not one student would like you or talk to you? You know that you are a outcast. You are not with a group of outcasts, you are a lone outcast. This is Melinda's reality since the party incident.
All people make mistakes in life; people will judge you on the mistake and how you deal with it. One mistake as big as Melinda's, was an umpire in baseball called a guy safe and that one hit on the 9th inning with 2 outs stop Galarraga from getting a perfect game. The umpire after the game told Galarraga that he made a mistake and he was forgiven. Melinda kept what happened to her a secret from all the people at the party. If she would have told them what happened they probably would have forgiven her.
Everyone hates the mistake you make right a way but the will forgive you over time. It is drastically worse to be depressed. When you are depressed there is nothing wrong with you it is just how you view your self. When you are depressed no one can help you, you need to change how you think of life. It is a proven fact that happy people live 10% longer than sad.
The book speak is a moving book with one of most annoying character that you want to hit but it show a point of how nothing will change unless you make people change what they think of you. Now what are you going to do to change how people think of you.
Cheating, the plan B of winners.
