Is Your Innocence Lost?

Author's Note: This is an essay stating the theme of the book Speak I will compare this book to another book that has a similar theme as Speak.

 

 

When ever someone insults you, hurts you, and brings pain to you physically and mentally do you let it slide and walk away, continually having to deal with the loss of happiness. Or do you fight back with all the build up sorrow, and fatigue that specific person, or people have caused you to have. Making them most likely to back off and leave you alone. Leaving you the better person. This leads to our theme of the book, loss of innocence. 

Melinda the main character from the novel Speak struggles with her loss of innocence. She was taken advantage of at a party. Where an upperclassman violates her. This ends up causing pain and destruction to her own self all because she stood up for herself and called the cops against her attacker, making  her seem very vulnerable to everyone around her. Many others in real life deal with this problem, which leads to bullying. For Melinda bullying is very active in her life, bully's constantly push her buttons with inappropriate nicknames, abuse, and being teased about her physical appearance. Bullying is dwelt with everywhere especially in Junior Highs, and High school it is a problem that usually can't be stopped but can be treated. 

A novel that has a very similar theme is the book A Child Called "It" by. Dave Pelzer the theme is very similar to Speak's because in the two books the main characters each have to deal with bullying, and losing there confidence. Which makes it hard for them to stand up to anyone. The author of this terrific story Dave Is writing a book about his horrific childhood in the 1970's  being bullied for his unwashed clothes and his smelly body odor, and having to deal as a young child being violently abused physically, and mentally by his sick and twisted mother.

 Everyone will deal with loss of innocence sometime in there life, just some may not be as bad as in this book, Loss of Innocence is dealt by everyone who goes  through difficulties in life, dealing from bullying at school to an  abusiveness family member death of a mother or father. You just have to take care of it the right way. Talking to a teacher a friend someone who you believe in and that someone who believes in you. Never just brushing it off your shoulder, deal with the situation. No matter how hard or bad its best to tell someone that can help.