Response to Speak 3

The last part of the book speak was enlightening. In the beginning of the book, there was a lot of talk about why Melinda was such a weirdo, why no one liked her, why she seemed so creepy and why she was such a loner. Throughout the book, her personality is explored and we learn more about what happend to her and why she became the person that she is.

In the 3rd part of the book, they talk about her experience with her "party" and how she got raped in the party. It seemed messed up and really wrong that she got raped and she did not even know what was going on. Even worse is that she knows who the person who raped her is and tries to tell people, but because she called the cops on the party, she is shunned and hated at her new high school. In the last part of the book, it is revealed that the person that raped her is Andy Evans, the person that she has been calling the beast and IT throughout the entire book. Before it was explained, I always wondered why she called him IT, and what he could have possibly done to her to make her hate him so much.

The really messed up part in the book was when Melinda tried to explain to Rachel why Andy Evans was such a bad person, and why she should stay away from him. She tried to start a conversation up with Rachel and help her, even though Rachel abandoned her in high school and treated her like she did not even exist for the whole freshman year of high school. When Rachel heard that Melinda was raped by Andy Evans, all Rachel said was that Melinda was a liar, that she was jealous of what Rachel had, and that Melinda was a horrible horrible person for lying about being raped.

One of the funny and satisfying parts of the book was when Heather came back to Melinda. Heather had come back begging for Melinda’s help because she had been given an impossible assignment by the other girls in her group. Melinda felt that Heather was rude, selfish, and self centered, so she finally did something about it and told Heather to go away and refused to help her. That was a very satisfactory part of the book, because it was so nice to see that Melinda actually got revenge on someone that self-centered and selfish.