![]() ![]() ![]() Directed by Ryan Murphy and adapted by two of the writers of the original production, Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, the film was released in theaters on December 4 and then hit Netflix on December 11. The Prom is the latest hit Broadway musical to get a film adaptation. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that’s like asking for the moon. Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical. Melinda Sordino, the protagonist, is raped the summer before her freshman year of high school at a house party. Anderson weaves her way through the stark landscape of lives, particularly her own, that were riddled with violence and abuse. ![]() Yet the poem ends with possibility and promise: the birth of a baby on the side of the road during the liberation from Holocaust concentration camps. SHOUT is Laurie’s story about being a survivor, about being a woman, about being an advocate who is passionate about young people, about intellectual freedom, and about being the best people we can all possibly be. ![]() What is the theme of the book shout by Laurie Halse Anderson?
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