Speak

This week, please write about your novel of choice. You may write about why you selected it, what it's about, the connections between this novel and the other three we've read in class. If you write your post after you've begun reading your novel of choice, write about the book: what's it about? what connections do you see among characters, events, and themes in the novels?
Remember that your posts need to be at least 200 words and they are due by Thursday at 11:59 pm.
(Your week 8 post will also reflect on your novel of choice.)

The book I chose was Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson. The book can easily be compared to the other three novels we have read in Senior English so far. The novel that Speak most closely compares to is The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. The book is about a girl who struggles to fit in and make friends, after she makes the decision to bust an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, getting many people in trouble. The girl, Melinda Sordino, can relate to Holden Caulfield in that they both have a hard to making friends, and are quite lonely. The two characters have lots of alone time, giving them tons of time to think. The both experience struggles that most teens go through in their high school years, with relationships. With that connection, I can also say that the character from Flowers For Algernon, Charlie, can relate to Melinda, in that they were both also lonely and did not have many friends. Charlie upset people when he became too smart for everyone; and Melinda upset people when she went and told on her old friends, and got everyone in trouble. Speak does not happen to be very relatable with Of Mice and Men, expect for that Melinda and Lennie frustrated many people.