ANGER.

"IT's face suddemly pops up in my mind. All the nager whistles out of me like I'm a popped balloon."

I chose this quote because/I think she said this because, I think at that party that everyone doesnt like her for, i think she got raped there. And that she just saw his face in her mind and just got really mad. I chose it because I think it is a very important port in the story.

What just happened was she saw some guys face, and im guessing it was the guy who raped her. She was already frustrated, so the face didnt make it any better.

What I think will happen after is that she will just forget about it, and just move on? I really don't know, because i have not read that far into the book.


frustrated girl ^^^

Speak.

Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson

In this story, if I could be anybody in the story, I would like to be Heather because she is so nice. I would like to know why she hangs out with Melinda when nobody else does. Heather is so sweet, she doesnt see the bad side in Melinda. She has such a good spirit. I would love to feel that if nobody can jdge me. NOBODY, likes Melinda and Heather doesnt care if nobody likes her, she just wants to be nice and have friends.

Connection.

The only book that I've read that SORT OF connects to "It Happened to Nancy" is probably "A Child Called It" They probably didn't go through the same feelings, but it was probably just as devastating. AIDS is an illness that can kill you PHYSICALLY. But what the little boy in "A Child Called It", went through, would kill him EMOTIONALLY.

I chose this picture because it has to do with AIDS. And AIDS is basically what the book is about.

NEVER ANOTHER ME.

"I hope there's never another ME, except ME."

What just happened was that, she was talking about a "security" dog that they have. And there was another dog that had died. That dog was her best companion, and that there wouldnt be another one of those dogs except for him.

I chose this quote because, she knows that going through what she went through is A LOT of stress and it sucks. She doesnt want anybody to go through what she went through.

After this, two days after,on April 12th, Nancy died. On her tombstone, was, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER NANCY.

They've come BACK.

"Not my kind of infection they cant it's AIDS-related and . . . all the evils of my past and future have come back to haunt me. Maybe this is an omen that I SHOULDN'T go back home . . . ever."

Right now, she is at her dads house. She is thinking that she might not be able to go home because she thinks thinks she might find Collin again. Collin is the guy that raped her and infected her with AIDS.

I chose this quote because, I think it has a lot of meaning to it. By saying that "all the evils of her past and future have come back to haunt her", she means that everything that has happened to her is coming back to her mind and giving her bad memories.

After this, nothing really happened.

I may dumb; but not stupid.

"His mouth keeps moving, but I can't hear words anymore, I cant't feel; I can't think. I may be dumb and young and naive, but I'm not stupid. Someone's made the most horrible mistakes. How could I have AIDS? The word is like all the bitternes in the world on my tounge, then spreading throughout my body."

What just happened was that, she just found out she has aids. She got aids because she was raped.

I chose this quote because, I think that this is the most important part of the story. She feels that after she was told, she felt like she couldnt do anything. This was the part of the story where she knew that her life would never be the same.

What happened after was she just went home, and she layed down. I wouldnt want to do anything either if i had went through what she went through.