Speak Quote

"Was I raped?" A quote from Speak. (Pg 164) Throughout the whole book Melinda tell us her story about High school and the hidden story of her being raped a few months prior to starting her Freshman year. That quote confuses me because it's near the end, and she knows she was raped, yet why is she questioning it? I thought at first MAYBE she wanted it and she didn't know. Maybe she actually liked it DEEP DEEP down inside her that she can't find it. I'm not saying she's a bad person, but that's just a possibility. Another possibility would be maybe shes confused. She knows she got raped, but she's not sure if it ever happened. She knows she called the police on the party that night, but maybe something else could have happened to her and she was delusional. Maybe she's making up an excuse for something else that could have been worse that happened to her. Don't get me wrong, I feel sympathy for Melinda, but there are many other possibilities that could have happened to her because no one was witnessing it happen, or no test was done to show she did.

Highlights and Lowlights for Reading this Year

The first book I read this year was Jarhead. Jarhead seemed like an interesting book, but was extremely confusing. Anthony Swofford often had flashbacks IN his flashbacks and just screws you up even more. He jumps from topic to topic so it gets to confused as to when or where the main story takes place. The book has a lot of humor and dirty jokes, violence and real opinions that aren't censored. Just real, hard, cold opinions and points of view. He reveals the truth about how tough and rough the Marines training really is. He tells you how the Marine recruiters bullshit most of how great and fun it is to be a Marine. The thing that bugs me the most is how he only tells the readers about the training and when it gets to the real war, he wasn't even in it! He was just guarding a tower with his friend and gets ditched while the rest of the MArines celebrate 10 miles away. This book is good overall and is quite funny at times but it has some crappy moments sometimes also.