ARCANE

SPEAK REFLECTIVE READING QUIZ

• Lonely
• Lost
• Arcane
• Clandestine
• Insecure

2. I chose the word lonely for Melinda because she really has no friends she is going through High School alone. But, she really doesn’t want to have friends she likes to be alone.

I also chose Lost because she doesn’t know what to do tell everyone the truth about that party. Or, when she’s in the cafeteria she doesn’t know who to sit with or really what to do.

Arcane is a word that describes Melinda because it means secret, known only by few. And, Melinda makes sure of that she is not known by a lot of people she would rather be by herself.

My next word was clandestine and it means secret because Melinda’s a very secretive person. For example the janitor’s closet in school she uses it as her own secret hideout where she can go to be alone, where no one else can find her, and she’s not sharing her secret about the party so her whole life at school is a secret.

And my last word was insecure because i believe the Melinda has a lot of insecurities. Like, how she thinks she has to ugliest clothes in school and she can’t draw a tree in art class.

3. ARCANE

4. Out of my five words that describe the protagonist Melinda in the book Speak i chose the word arcane. I chose this one instead of the other four because i felt it was the one that best described Melinda and who she is.  I felt that arcane best shows who Melinda as a character is because arcane mean secret, known only by few. And this is truly who Melinda is, but she doesn’t care she likes “blending into the crowd”

Examples of this shown in the story are when Melinda’s parents want her to stay after school everyday for extra help and Melinda agree’s to stay after, but not to study, Melinda is making her own personal fort in the janitor’s closet (pg. 26&). Or when she refuses to go to the homecoming pep rally until Heather makes her. She would rather spend the time out of algebra and fixing up her closet. she doesn’t want to go because she doesn’t want anyone to talk to her or sit next to her she would rather be alone in her closet (pg.26-30).