Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson pg 121-160

Summary
To reward Melinda by going to school everyday and not skipping any classes, her mother settled herself with new clothes. Melinda doesn't like to shop with her mother, since all she does is brag about what is stylish and what is not. As Melinda went to a store, she picked out some jeans and went to the fitting room. The fitting room was filled with mirrors everywhere, where she began to look into herself. She began moving mirror to mirror and thinking, how does it feel to walk in a new skin? She reminisced on the times about how her mother and father hating each other, her friend Rachel who hates her, the school is mistreating her, and  Heather. She puts on the jeans for a new start. Melinda told herself she needed to stay away from her closet, go to all her classes, make herself normal, and forget the past.
Instead of heading home and sitting in her closet, Melinda decides to stay after school for a basketball game, the last game of the season. She ran down the hall, where the noise in the gym pulled her in. The crowd chanted down the last seconds, where they won 51-50. Everyone was excited. Melinda wanted to be part of it all.
At the end of the Third Marking Period, her grades were failing.
For extra credit, Melinda's history teacher, Mr.Neck, assigned students to write a report about suffragettes because many students were failing. Melinda wrote about how women couldn't vote, own property, or be allowed in schools. But, Mr. Neck told the students it was an oral report, where Melinda did not want to speak. During class, Melinda put up a sign that says that suffragettes fought for the right to speak, and she should not be forced to give speeches where Melinda chooses to be silent. In the end, Mr. Neck gave her a D.

Quote
"Anything you say will be used against you"  (Anderson 157).

Reaction
As Melinda was watching lawyers on TV, she heard the cops say, "Anything you say will be used against you." She relates this to the situation where she did not want to speak during the oral report. I wonder why Melinda doesn't speak. Is it her past or she has nothing to say?