The novel, Speak, written by Laurie Hals Anderson, begins with the exclusion of a new freshmen by her old clan, resulting in her getting lost and receiving her first demerit of the year. In Anderson starting the novel with this scene, it sets the tone of depression and loneliness which i surprisingly enjoyed about the novel. On page 2 of Speak, Anderson explains to the us the feelings of seclusion Melinda feels through the quote “I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don’t have anyone to sit with. I am Outcast.”

There is a lot of good things that happen in the novel Speak. But the one thing that I did not like about the novel was the slowness to it. The quickness of Speak is the equivalent to a baby sea turtle crawling into the sea. The reason I say this is because i feel that through the whole book there are some parts where anderson drags the book on and on and on. And that she could have sped up some of the books slow areas.

The thing I liked the most about Speak was the characters style how anderson was abled to bring the hard knock truth about how high school would start out for a ninth grader who was outcasted like melinda was in the book. And how a spoiled popularity seeker was able to befriend melinda and then shut her aside.

Overall I enjoyed the novel Speak, for andersons ability to capture the certain truth about high school, her character’s styles and the general
tone of the novel.