The significance behind the title Speak

I read the book called Speak. I believe that the significance of the title is that you should simply speak. There’s a young girl going into her freshman year, and she and her best friend went to a party. They were drinking and a cute senior boy came up behind her and started to kiss her. Then he took her up to this bedroom and began to take advantage of her. She was in complete shock and didn’t know what to do after all she was only fourteen. After he was done he got up and left, she then went downstairs and she didn’t know what to do so she called the cops. Someone close by her saw that she was on the phone so they grabbed the phone from her ear and saw that she had called 911, that person yelled the cops are coming. Someone punched the girl who called the cops in the face, and then everyone started to run all over the place as quick as they could to get out of there before the cops showed up. She and her best friend were no longer friends anymore; no one wanted to talk to her after the party because no one knew why she called the cops. So she spent the whole summer alone. When school started back up again no one was still talking to her except a new girl, that hadn’t heard about the incident. She never told anyone because she thought it was her fault. However, towards the end of the book she tells someone, and she realizes it’s not her fault. So I guess the reason the author title this book Speak was for simply the reason that it’s never too late to speak up and your always ashamed of what happened and scared of how people are going to judge you, but in all reality it feels way better to actually speak up.