Book club post # 3

Speak
By:Laurie Halse Anderson


Summary: This week in my book club book I read that Melinda has been improving in her classes, she has passed a lot of her tests. During Easter Melinda remembered how much fun it was when her mother hid colored eggs around the house for her , and when her grandparents died they would go to church during Easter. Melinda wished that she and her parents had gone to church for Easter this year because she missed the Easter songs that they sang. During spring break Melinda says that she feels like her house is shrinking and that she feels like Alice in Wonderland. She goes to the mall and she sees her old friend Ivy drawing a picture of children who's faces are sad on one side and painted like a clown on the other. Ivy asked Melinda how her tree was going and Melinda says that she still can't draw the tree right. Ivy tells Melinda that it doesn't matter if the tree she draws at first isn't good enough she can keep on trying until she gets it right. In biology Melinda's class has started to learn about genetics. During class Melinda was thinking about the things that she inherited from her parents. Lately Melinda has been seeing her old friend Rachelle with Andy Evans. Melinda is having a hard time deciding whether to tell Rachelle how Andy really is and what he did to her because they have been getting really close and Melinda doesn't want her old friend to get hurt. Even though Rachelle doesn't talk to Melinda and is probably still mad at her for calling the cops at the summer party , Melinda doesn't want what happened to her to happen to her friend.Melinda writes a left handed note ( so they won't know it was her) to Rachelle advising her and her new friend Ingrid to stay away from Andy Evans.

Opinion: I think that its good that Melinda has Ivy to help her with her tree because at least now she has a 'friend' to show her and tell her what she can do with her tree. I that it's a good thing that Melinda is looking out for her old friend even though Rachelle doesn't know that she's doing it. I think that it was a good idea to write Rachelle the letter because then even if she doesn't pay much attention to it she could still know what kind of person Andy really is.

Prompt: One question that the Deep Thinker asked this week was " Why doesn't Melinda tell Ivy what really happened to her at the party?" We also discussed our favorite characters from the book and why we liked them. My favorite character form the book is Melinda because she is a strong person and a good friend even though almost like all of her friends left her.She went through the first year of high school with no friends and keeping her secret. What surprised me this week was that Melinda actually had the courage to tell somebody about Andy even if it was only by a letter. She's scared of him because she thinks that hes going to hurt her again but she doesn't want anybody else to get hurt by him. The role I played this week was the Historian. I kept track of the imporatn events that happened in the book.