The novel "Speak" genre is drama because a 15 year old girl has to start her freshman year off as an outcast because all of her friends disowned her for getting a party shut down in the summer before her freshman year all because a senior attending the highschool she started attending raped her. Nobody knows why she called the cops, the cops don't know, her parents don't know. Melinda finally grew the courage to come out and tell her ex best friend Rachel because Melinda soon comes to find out "it" the boy who raped her who is really Andy Evans is now Rachel's current boyfriend. Melinda confronts Rachel telling her what Andy done to her and Rachel gives her no chance she shuts Melinda right up accusing her of lying. Melinda wasn't surprised and didn't care to explain herself to anyone else, she was just happy she got it off her chest to someone finally.