Melinda, suffering from severe depression and the fact that she does not want to talk, eventually loses her new “friend,” and is alone.ĭuring this, her grades are dropping, she is cutting class, and spending a lot of time alone. Melinda starts off by being kind-of friends with a new girl who doesn’t know about the party that summer – or why everyone dislikes Melinda so much. The reason they dislike her? She called the cops at a party in the summer and got a lot of kids in trouble because there was alcohol – and no one forgot about it. The story starts off with Melinda starting off at school, with everyone hating her. It uses the original text and follows it closely, only this book is illustrated so beautifully that it brings this amazing classic to life in a brand new way. Just like the original novel, Speak: The Graphic Novel is raw and painful. I meant to buy the book and never got a chance, but when I saw it was available at the library, I didn’t hesitate to pick it up. But, as it happens often, being an adult often gets in the way, and I forgot about it for a bit. So when I saw that the Speak graphic novel was being released, I was so excited to read it. It was not just emotional, it was raw, it was painful. When I first read this book, I was completely blown away by how powerful that book was.
I recently read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson again.
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