Speak.

I read the book Speak by Laurie Anderson back in high school as one of our “literature circle” projects. I just recently re-read the book and I forgot how much that the author made the book so realistic. In high school people are mean and just follow what is in style or what the popular kids are doing. You see this in Speak when she calls the cops and everyone is mad at her and will not even speak to her. When they do it's negative and mean. I wasn't the most popular in high school so I had some times when people would give me hard times and its does hurt. I can't even imagine how its feels to be raped and not a have a soul to speak to or talk about how she is. The books really opened my eyes on not to make fun of people and not to judge because you never know what someone is going through. I understand how she cannot trust anyone and she will never probably will be able to, at least I know I never would be able to. It's awesome how she is able to kind of help herself by drawing the tree in her art class. I think that it helped her be a strong person and helped her cope through her tragedy until she was able to talk to someone. I also think that all though what happened to her she is still a caring person. She wanted to tell Rachel so bad throughout the book that Andy her new boyfriend had raped her, to protect her to make sure it didn’t happen to Rachel also. It is sad when she does tell her and she calls her a liar and tell her that she is just jealous, even though that they had been friends since little kids she still turns her back on her. I think about that I don't even know If I would be able to do that to my best friend. I love the book and I think that it ended perfectly and was very pleased with it. I will defiantly be reading more of her writings.