Speaking Up

A lot of things happen in High School, or Middle School. Taunting, harassment, bullying, they all happen. Unfortunately, sometimes these kinds of things lead to emotional stress, and sometimes even death. It is a sad, sad thing when people go out one night to bite the bullet. Now, not all cases of bulling, harassment or taunting lead people of thinking about doing that. One good example is in the novel “Speak”, written by Laurie Halse Anderson shows that if one will speak up, they could – and probably would get some help.

In “Speak”, the main character Melinda doesn’t speak out to her parents, to anyone about the rape until the very end of the school year. That is how some bullying cases work, but you see here, Melinda is being bullied, but the accusers (pretty much everyone at school) don’t know the whole story. How can this be? Well, once again, Melinda and the others who might be out there with this need to speak up a little bit, whether they are being taunted in school or not, because you are bullying yourself by not telling anyone about it.

High School can be a daunting place for an outcast, but remember there still is hope if you open your mouth to tell other about it once in a while. Bullying is never good, but it can always be resolved.