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For the past few weeks of reading Speak I have learned about a girl. A girl that finds reality. A girl who finds a way through it. Melinda has had a hard freshman year of high school. She struggles to find friends, get good grades, and even get a long with her teachers. Now in her third marking period her only subject she is good at is art. She failed at gym, math, science, social studies, Spanish, and English. In my previous blog I had said that Melinda found a friend named Heather. Heather started to kind of wander off with her modeling job and completely forgot that she even had a life. What was in her life was Melinda. Now being alone again, she still struggles and needs to find a way to get through life and pass through the bumps in the road.

This book reminds me of a movie called mean girls because a girl named Cady is bullied in the beginning of the movie. She only has a limited amount of true friends. A group of popular girls supposedly acts to be her friend and Cady eventually realizes that they aren't real after making a burn book. In Speak, Melinda only has one friend that she isn't even sure is true and everyone else in the schools pretty much hates her. These two characters could probably connect to each others life if they met in person. Maybe even become friends.

I like the way that both authors contribute a similar idea. In Speak, how the author is very descriptive and tells what goes on every day, in every class, in high school. How every day is completely different. If I had to give feed back I would recommend reading and watching both www.imdb.com/title/tt0377092/  Mean Girls and www.imdb.com/title/tt0378793 Speak.