![]() “But it needed to be a long time coming…to have a better perspective on my upbringing, my family.” “ Shout for me has been a long time coming,” she says. It wasn’t until years later that she realized that her younger self had been drowning. “I knew I wasn’t happy, but as long as I stayed high in ninth grade, everything was fine.” “I thought I was doing great,” Anderson says. Like Melinda, Anderson was raped as a young teenager, but whereas Melinda coped by withdrawing from the world, Anderson turned to drugs and alcohol to combat the ensuing depression. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2019 Gr 8 Up), sheds light on what came next-not for Melinda, but for Anderson, who drew from her own adolescence when writing Speak. Whatever happened to Melinda? Since its publication 20 years ago, fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak have wondered about the confused, angry teenager left reeling after being raped at a party. ![]()
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