I am responding to the statement “People who are quiet have some thing to hide” I do not agree with this statement. The person who is quiet may be just shy. The person who is quiet also just might not be very social. The person also might have a disability, and / or are to self- conscious about it.
The person who is shy might just be that, shy. They might have never been very social, and they are being shoved into a social situation, or world. They did not want to go there, but they need to be there, maybe because they need to learn There is possibly some one is making them, because the person who is making them thinks they know whats best for the person. Some people just want to be left alone.
Some of the people who do not want to be very social.People are just not very social, and they might want to be any where but where they are. Some people do not help with that, and try to talk to the un- social person, which is annoying to the un- social person. That does not make any thing better for the person, because now they are annoyed, and still not very social, which just makes things a lot worse than they were before the person talked to the un- social person.
Some people are just self- conscious about a disability. If they have a speech impediment, they might just be embraced about it. They are probably just not ready for every person around them (and every one they tell), to know about their disability. They just do not want every one to know about their so- called ‘problem” Well, I guess some people have some thing to hide.
Like I said before, some people have something to hide. “He doesn’t even bother a fake smile or an ‘Are you lost?’” (99). The person that didn’t talk this time was just minding his own business. “A few hands creep skyward. Mr. Neck ignores them. It is a pretend question.”(53), here, people are being quiet because they do not want to get in trouble. In the book, Mel hid the fact that she was raped by some kid at the party she went to before the school year started. “Maybe I should ask the guidance counselor for a therapist or a nosy shrink. I don’t say anything and I feel awful,. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I am having a hard time finding middle ground” (185). It may be the fact that if they tell any one, then someone will hurt them or someone that is close to the quiet person.
That is what I got to say for this Speak statement. These are my thoughts on this subject. If you have some other thought process on the statement “People who are quiet have some thing to hide."
