The book that I am reading is called Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is a young adult fiction book that actually has a movie made after it.The main character is a young girl named Melinda Sordino. Melinda had a lot of friends back in junior high one being her best friend, a girl named Rachel. But when they reach high school suddenly Melinda is left with nothing. She has no friends,hardly talks to anyone basically shes a social outcast. When the story starts out Melinda is getting ready to begin her freshman year at Merrywheather High School. She's taking a look around at everyone and their social clicks.
What really caught my attention was that after reading a few pages into the book I noticed that it's a little bit different from the movie.
In the book it says that she meets her new found friend Heather inside the auditorium, but in the movie she meets her on the bus. Also Melinda spends a lot of time at Heather's but again in the movie she's mainly at home. It's really interesting to see how many differences you can find in a book and the movie that was made from the book. You expect the movie to be exactly like the book but it just wouldn't be the same without adding a little more drama to the film.
At first I wasn't sure if I really wanted to read the book because i had seen the movie but now that i know that there are a lot of differences I'm eager to find out how Melinda tells people about what happened that summer night at the party,or if she'll tell anyone at all.
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