Speak is about a young girl, fifteen or so, named Melinda who is hated by everyone. Every single person in her school almost hates her with a passion. Unfortunately, she ,too, hates herself. But not in the same way everyone else does, or for the same reason. She is beginning to close herself off from the world. She has lost her friends and can hardly talk with her family. She finds a closet behind the janitors closet in her high school where she hides. She is removing the world from her and the world is removing her too. The novel is all about her insights and observations, all revealed through her thoughts only.
It is a beautiful novel. I would recommend it to almost anyone, with the warning that it includes some sexual themes.
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