In the final part to Speak, Melinda has branched out from everything that she was in the beginning. She finally found the voice that she had lost after her torturous experience, but it did take her a while to get there.
There was a case in which Melinda wrote about how woman back in the day called the suffragettes had fought for their rights. Melinda was told by her history teacher that she had to present her assignment in front of the class orally in order to get credit. Melinda refused and instead, she stood up in front of the class and wrote on the chalkboard stating stating that she would fight and stand up for herself in silence. She only did this because she had previously talked about how David Petrakis having to speak so eloquent through silence.
She began to speak up more when her former friend Heather cam back to ask for her help and she refused to. She turned her down cold-heartedly for everything that she had done to her and for not being there when she needed her the most. The old Melinda would have just went along with whatever Heather wanted her to do because she wanted to have one friend, but in the end, she really didn't care. Melinda didn't want a friend that she couldn't count on and that was Heather.
Melinda had finally admitted to someone that she was raped and that was to her former best friend Rachel. This was her attempt to speak up for herself, but it ended up blowing up in her face. When she admitted to Rachel that Andy Evans, the guy that Rachel was dating was the guy who had raped Melinda, she immediately called her a liar and that she was jealous that she was popular and that Melinda was a loner.
Finally, Melinda spoke up for herself when Andy Evan was angry at her for telling Rachel about the incident. He caught her in Melinda's closet at school and was once again trying to hurt her. Melinda screamed and that it when she finally demonstrated that she was beginning to move on to what happened to her in the past.
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