Speak

Author's Note: I am analyzing two sentences from the book "Speak".

"The next time you work on your trees, don't think about trees. Think about love, or hate, or joy, or rage- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms seat or your toes curl."

This is a really inspirational point for Melinda in the book "Speak". The symbolism in this book is trees... dead or alive, with leaves or no leaves Melinda always draws them different. The trees symbolize her and her life, she feels dead inside which then she draws the trees dead. Once in a while she draws the trees somewhat growing, like when she met Heather and finally had one friend. When she lost Heather as a friend she was alone again, had no one, was no one, and no one cared and that is when she was drawing the trees dead, alone and nothing just like her.