An average child starts talking around the ages 2 or 3. After they know how to talk in full sentences and you will give them anything for them to shut up. But what if they didn’t even try speaking? Melinda, in the book Speak, has no desire to talk because she thinks there will be consequences. Everyone who had spoken in the book had to suffer something. For Rachel it was 500 word essays for the class, David had to go to the principal’s office, but Melinda was raped. Was the better solution to not tell anyone or should have been to speak up?
After Melinda called the cops, everyone at the party got busted. She didn’t tell her classmates why she called the cops and so her whole grade despises her. Her colleagues would have understand why she called the cops and she would still have them. Melinda didn’t think about what would have happened and much better her life could’ve been if she told the truth. If she had told the cops she would have sympathy from her classmates, more friends, and she would talk more.
If she had talked more, she would also have a better family. Before the incident, Melinda didn’t say her parents hated her. On page 70, Melinda believes that her parents don’t love her as much as they did before, because she is just like her mother and father. She explained this during a biology lab with apples. It smelled like the time she picked apples with her family and they were all happy. But after the party she didn’t have great communication with her family.
Talking is a very important skill in life. It helps expressing yourself and haves opinions. If you don’t talk, then you will have trouble in life like Melinda.
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