1. “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time”
Zach Efron And Kristen Stewart Star in…
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time”

2. Summary- Speak, published in 1999, is Laurie Halse Anderson's young adult novel and it has finally turned into a movie! The main character Melinda Sordino , played by the famous actress Kristen Stewart just started high school. She begins her first year at Merryweather High School with a heavy secret causing her to become silent. Over the summer, she and her friends went to a party and Melinda ended up calling the police, ending the party. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. No one knows the real reason why she called. The safest place for her to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s something she is trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that has been haunting her for months. Will she ever be ready to speak the truth?
The cover- I chose to put a picture of Kristen not smiling and in boring clothes because that’s how I see Melinda looking. I chose a picture of Zach Efron who plays Andy Evans to look dark and mysterious and kind of badass. The overall background of this DVD cover is black because this whole story is dark, nothing really happy happens until the end. I chose that particular quote from the book because it is how Melinda feels throughout the whole movie, trapped in her own thoughts.