Speak

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, There are plenty of examples of symbolism. The main character is Melinda, everyone hates her because she called the cops on a party at the end of summer.

In this book the symbols are the couch, the mirror, the bedroom, the trees, and the mascot. The couch symbolizes having two different sides. The mirror shows that Melinda doesn’t like who she is, so she covers it up. The bedroom also shows that Melinda doesn’t know who she is because it is about what her friends like. The trees remind her about bad memories that she has had. Then mascot keeps changing at her school so that shows that the school doesn’t have an identity.

Melinda is a teenage girl in high school who called the police at a party where everyone was drinking at and she got a lot of people in trouble. When school starts everybody hates her and she becomes an outcast. In the book Melinda seems to be depressed and has no motivation in life. She says that she would rather sleep than do homework.