Laurie Halse Anderson's novel speak is very impactful for many people. It is about speaking out about things like sexual assult and depression. The award-winning novel was adapted into a film starring Kristen Stewart in 2004. This arises the question: which one is more impactful, the book or the film?
Speak: Which Provides a more Impactful Experience, the Book or the Film?
No matter which form of media you use to consume Speak, it is bound to leave some kind of impact upon you. Despite this, I personally think that the novel leaves more of an impact than the film. Something I think the novel conveys much better than the film is how Melinda thinks worse and worse of herself as time goes on. The film seems to present her as equally as miserable at the begining, middle, and the end of the school year. When, in actuality the longer Melinda keeps the rape to herself, the worse she feels about herself. On the first day of school Melinda is nervous and has a stomach ache, by the end of the school year her internal pain gets so bad that she trys to mask it with self-inflicted external pain in the form of cutting her wrists with the sharp end of a paper clip. In conclusion I think that Speak the book is more impactful than Speak the film because though the film tells the same story as the book, the book better coveys just how much Melinda's internalized pain and anguish impact simply living.
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