We often see boys bullying each other because they do it physically. I think this is an issue that really needs to be addressed. This is a great novel for teenage girls to read. So she decides that since her words have hurt so many people, she just won’t speak anymore. She wishes she could take back her words. She just throws words around with reckless abandon. The novel is told from the bully’s point of view, but it’s hard to see her as a bully. She shares a secret that incites violence, almost gets somebody killed, and in the process isolates her from her peers. That one secret had far reaching implications for quite a few people. In fact, she doesn’t see any need to keep them whatsoever. The main character, Chelsea, has a really hard time keeping secrets. Speechless is a novel by Hannah Harrington that explores this issue. It’s easy to blurt something out that you really have no right to share, something that can hurt someone else, something that is probably better left unsaid. Sometimes we don’t stop to think about how much power our words have.
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