Why?’ But they’re not quite old enough to be charitable.” And I think it’s because they’re old enough to say, ‘Wow, we had some stuff going on at our house. “I think that’s why when people get to be in their late teens, or they head off to college, there’s often years there where people are pretty angry with their parents,” she says.
And the beating that her father once inflicted on her mother, before Anderson’s birth, left its mark on the family. The trauma made keeping a job difficult, and the burden of holding the family together weighed heavily on Anderson’s mother. Anderson, however, sees her family with a mixture of love, sadness, and understanding. She writes candidly about her father’s post-traumatic stress disorder, the result of serving in World War II. Many of her protagonists, such as Melinda or Wintergirls’ Lia, grow frustrated at their parents’ inability to relate to their pain. “But it needed to be a long time coming…to have a better perspective on my upbringing, my family.”
“ Shout for me has been a long time coming,” she says. It wasn’t until years later that she realized that her younger self had been drowning. “I knew I wasn’t happy, but as long as I stayed high in ninth grade, everything was fine.” “I thought I was doing great,” Anderson says. Like Melinda, Anderson was raped as a young teenager, but whereas Melinda coped by withdrawing from the world, Anderson turned to drugs and alcohol to combat the ensuing depression. 2019 Gr 8 Up), sheds light on what came next-not for Melinda, but for Anderson, who drew from her own adolescence when writing Speak. Whatever happened to Melinda? Since its publication 20 years ago, fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak have wondered about the confused, angry teenager left reeling after being raped at a party.
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