Speak By: Laurie Halse Anderson COA#2

The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a very strong and meaningful book. For me when I read it taught me a  life lesson. Some things that might change your life, may be the right things to do. After finishing this book it actually let me go through the things that the main character, Melinda, went through. The types of obstacles and challenges that the character went through were hard but she went through them and survived. It might be the part of facing the things you don't want to face the thing that helps you carry on with your life. That's the thing I learned from the book. The most important thing is to always stay strong.

The main character, Melinda,as  I said had to go through a lot of hard things one thing is friendship. She tried to go back to her old friendship, but it didn't work out very well. Her old friends will not talk to her after what she did in the summer at the party. She called the cops and they got busted. She tried to forget the past but she couldn't. the harder thing was that she had to forget the past. In her class there was a new student and she became friends with her. The girls name was Heather. but that made a even bigger problem. Heather wanted to be noticed around school. But after Heather got some new friends Melinda didn't want to hang out with other people because they hated her. So Heather just betrayed Melinda. Melinda didn't know what to do except to cry.

Melinda doesn't like to deal with her family. Her family has many secrets hidden from her. Her mom and dad can not stand each other if she wasn't there anymore they would probably get divorced.She never expresses herself to her parents. Her parents are all about work. She always looks at other peoples and see's that her life is not worth living for. She doesn't get any love.

These problems are the hardest and most common problems for "Coming of Age". I think this is what people have through . I have to say that it is not a very easy thing to go through but everybody can find a way to get around their problems. That's part of growing up and "Coming of Age".