A boy named Andy Evans sees Melinda and comes by her. Andy sees her and stays with her all night. Later through the night he brings her away from everyone else and rapes her. Melinda gets extremely scared and calls the police‚ Rachel (her ex-best friend) finds out she called the cops. Rachel then leaves her at the party and hates her‚ for calling the cops‚ from that moment on. In conclusion to this Melinda
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harder it can be exposed. Melinda Sordino‚ is raped during the summer before the start of her freshman year in high school by Andy Evans‚ a popular senior. Melinda calls the police and the party is stop to a halt. When the people from the party find out she called the police she begins her freshman year as an outcast. She befriended only one girl‚ named Heather who was a new student from another state who was unaware of what had happened during the summer. Melinda was like a bunny rabbit who feared
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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
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were both raped. I know this because in the third line of the poem it says "a girl who is tired of being RAPED " and in the book when Malinda finally comes to cope with the fact that she is raped at the end she says "there is no avoiding it‚ Andy Evans raped me in August when I was too young and drunk to understand it. it is not my fault." the book and the poem are different because in the poem she is ready to fight back from the beginning and in the book it takes a lot of time and coping with what
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biology lab partner and one of her only friends. He is very patient with her and when she is able to speak‚ it is often to him. He is also one of the few people Melinda actually respects Andy Evans – The horrible kid who raped Melinda‚ he often preys on girls who like him only for his good looks. Heather from Ohio - This young girl is new to Merryweather High when Melinda begins her ninth-grade year. Because she is unaware of what happened at the party‚ she befriends Melinda. However‚ Melinda realized
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A Reflection on H.J. McCloskey’s “On Being an Atheist” Liberty University Submitted By: Heather McElroy Professor Mark Wesley Forman Introduction In 1968‚ H.J. McCloskey wrote an article on atheism called “On Being an Atheist.” He states that there are three proofs which do seem to move ordinary theists to their theism to constitute major motivations towards a belief in God‚ namely the cosmological proof‚ the teleological proof‚ and the argument from design (McCloskey). In his article
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English essay I had started reading when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It all started when I used to read picture book and come up with my own story. I never really liked people to read to me‚ so I was really eager to start learning to read. My first book that I had read by myself was goodnight moon. Now whenever I have free time of my own I pick up a book and start reading. The future of us. Emma‚ a teenager in 1995‚ has just gotten her very first computer. After her best friend and neighbor
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year of high school‚ Melinda Sordino‚ meets Andy Evans at a party. Outside in the woods‚ Andy rapes her. Melinda calls 911‚ but does not know what to say. The police come and break up the party. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her‚ and no one asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast‚ shunned by her friends for calling the police. She remains silent and sinks into depression. Melinda is befriended by Heather‚ a new girl‚ who clings to Melinda only to ditch
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to her. (5) Not having any friends was hard and she needed one. Then she met the new girl Heather and they become friends. Everything was fine for a while‚ but she knows that everything that is bottled up will come out. A huge conflict in this story was at a party that happened at the end of the previous school year. Invited by her friend Rachel they went and drank. Then after she met a boy‚ Andy Evans‚ she was raped by him. (135) After this happened she called the cops and the party was destroyed
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The quotation on page 157 captures an essential idea of identity and a theme of speaking up for justice in Speak. In Speak‚ Melinda is an introverted girl who did not have the courage to speak up. After she was raped at a party and called the cops‚ she has not told anyone the truth of what really happened. Ever since‚ no one‚ not even her best friends‚ have yet to talk to her. She keeps everything to herself which as a result‚ makes her lonely and isolated. In this quote‚ Melinda believes that no
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