Charecter Is Inhumane

She was raped and it silencted her. She tried as hard as she could not to draw attentin to herself. Melinda felt dead inside. She felt like it was her fault even though it wasn't. Over the course of the book she meets charecters along the way of her school year. Some try to help her and try to become her friend. Others silenced her, told her mean things but she doesn't take them to heart because nothing matters anymore. At least not to her. Throughout the book she gets her voice back, the fight that she had lost. Melinda developts not only as a charecter but as a person in this book. In the begining, Melinda was silent. She had only one friend. Heather. Heather wanted in on a different group and didn't really want to be freinds with Melinda but she felt bad for her so she stayed. You find out that she doesn't care anymore. Her parents are in a fight. "The Parents are making threatening moises, turning dinner into a performance art, with dad doing his arnold Achwarzenegger imitation and Mom playing Glenn Close in one of her psycho roles. I am the Victim." (35). Since her parents are always fighting she doesn't feel like she …show more content…
Maybe she was raped. "Was I raped?" (164). After that sence she relizes that it wasn't her fault. IT held her against her will. She didn't want it to happen but it still did. Once she relizes her life doesn't change dramaticly but small changes happen. She starts talking to her parents, does yard work, and tries in art class. "Mom: 'You must be sick. You're talking."(163). She starts to make an effort. She even tries to tell her ex best friend that Andy Evens, the one who raped her was a bad guy. "I didn't call the cops to break up the party, I write. I called-I put the pencil down. I pick it up again-them because some guy raped me. Under the trees..." (183). When she finally told her friend her friend didn't believe her at first but them she did and things