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Thank you We sneak in Speak Melinda has a protagonist

00:12

Is melinda easy to relate to Melinda is like everybody

00:17

in her like ordinary day to day life She worries

00:21

that you know the other people at her school don't

00:24

like her She feel sad because her parents are mad

00:28

at her You know she just wants to live a

00:32

normal life but at the same time she has all

00:35

these deeply mysterious things about her Once melinda finally does

00:40

reveal what happened to her she starts writing on the

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bathroom wall shakes a list called boys to stay away

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from and over time other girls to that list and

00:51

she starts to realize that there are a lot of

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girls at her school that have been hurt or victimized

00:57

by the boys of their school So even these experiences

01:00

that seem like a very personal and isolating are often

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quite common which is really hot it's really tragic but

01:10

it's also helpful to know because the point in the

01:13

end is that melinda's not alone and also no one

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read every book is totally alone Is melinda easy to 00:01:26.027 --> [endTime] relate to No

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