Speak Vs The Crucible Essay

Speak is a teen novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson, it’s the story of freshman Melinda Sordino. Everybody in her high school doesn’t like her because last summer she went to a party and called the cops. Ever since she doesn’t speak and has no friends because she doesn't want to tell anybody the truth. She later on gets the courage to say something because one of her ex-best friends is going out with popular senior named Andy Evans. We find out later in the book that Melinda was raped by Andy at the party. That is why she called the cops. The book is about Melinda trying to accept the fact that she was raped and needs help. It is also about her struggling to try and fit in while dealing with her school, home problems and friends. There
The crucible is different from Speak because it was a play and it happened in 1953. Speak is more modern compared to that book. There are similar things that I noticed were the same. One similarity is the fact that both characters were disliked and and there was a lot of hate toward them. Another similarity is that at the end of both books is that the truth is finally out and people know what actually happened but there were consequences. Honesty and truth was something very important in both novels. A difference is that the Crucible was about witches and Speak was more about rape and
I would change that to give the book an interesting twist. There are many questions we would like answered but we’d have to hear them from the guys side point of view. The book is very good and there are a few things that we can expand on to make more interesting. Something interesting to expand on could be how she told her parents and how they reacted. What happened after she told her parents? Or we could wonder what happened to Andy. There are many questions and I would add the answers to those question to the book. I didn’t like that the book was short, I felt like it needed a little bit more but overall it was a great