Melinda

Author’s Note: This piece is to inform you about the main character of the book Speak.
Melinda is the main character of this story. She is an outcast at her school because everybody thinks she called the police at the end of summer party last year. Now that school is starting up she has many challenges.
Black hair, hates her skirt, an outcast, this is what Melinda says to herself on the first day of school. Melinda is a girl with a very bad attitude. She thinks there is no point in her living. This is because everybody around her doesn’t notice her because of what happened at a party. She believes in only having art class. That is the only part of her day that she enjoys, she thinks everything else is useless. Her parents fight a lot she doesn’t really have a great family at all. She impacts her friend Heather. Well used to be friend. Heather was new to school and Melinda was the only person that acknowledges that she was there. Until Heather betrays Melinda to move to a better group. She left Melinda because of her bad attitude and she was depressed all the time. She didn’t have any fun around her and just couldn’t deal with her anymore. Melinda is really a depressed outcast at her school.