Speak

I define myself differently depending on whom I am with. One group of my friends isn’t into sports so when I am with them I talk with them about funny things that I have seen or video games. We watch and play videogames with each other often and when we’re not doing that we are looking up jokes on the Internet. When I am hanging out with the soccer team, we still joke around but we often talk about soccer and other sports. After lunch we play soccer outside or go into the gym and play doge ball or basketball. How I define myself changes depending on who I am with. I don’t even notice the change most of the time, but when I look back I can definitely see that there was a change in how I acted.
In Speak Melinda doesn’t define herself outside of the art room. She wanders around like a zombie, just trying to remain unnoticed. When she is in the art room though she reaches out to people more, becomes someone. She doesn’t notice this change, and if she did she would either stop, or start reaching out more. Once she makes a friend in art class good things start to happen to her. She finally becomes someone again, and stops keeping to herself as much.
Melinda’s old friend Rachel changes how she defines herself from when she was friends with Melinda. Rachel becomes Rachelle, taking on parts of her German heritage. She hangs out with the foreign exchange students and speaks various different languages with them. Andy defines himself as a ladies’ man. He hits on every girl he sees, and tries to get in each of their pants as well. The characters in speak other than Melinda are hard to define their dual personalities because we only see one side of them. With Melinda though we are seeing the world through her eyes so we can see how she acts with different people.