What we know about Melinda is that she is a very sarcastic character, I think that Melinda uses sarcasm and jokes to deflects what really is happening to her. Melinda is a negative character because of many things that happened to her in her life such as not having friends, having a bad relationship and being depressed. Melinda has a bad relationship with her parents, her and her parents relationship is extremely strained. They never have a real conversations and when they do its always ends in arguments. The teachers in the first marking periods seem to not want to be involved in the student's life, I think this because the grade is a low grade school and they are the reject teachers who don't really care about their school. Mr.Freeman I
