Mr. Freeman, Melinda’s art teacher, influences Melinda as the school year progresses. They have a good relationship being a teacher and a student. In the book, Mr. Freeman helps Melinda many times with her problems and helps her find a resolution. He helps Melinda for the first time when she needs really needs help and has no one to turn to.
“This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you’ve never dared look at before. Don’t come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind”(10) Mr. Freeman always says inspirational things to Melinda and that’s how the relationship between them grows. Melinda sees Mr. Freeman as a huge role model since Melinda’s parents …show more content…
“ I rock, thumping my head against the cinder-block wall. A half-forgotten holiday has unveiled every knife that sticks into me, every cut. No Rachel, no Heather, not even a silly, geeky boy who would like the inside girl I think I am” (110)
Melinda’s parents have a huge influence on her life throughout the book. Just like all the parents, they can be difficult to work with and unfair but they are still our parents and they still care no matter what they say or do. With Melinda, she seems not be very fond of her parents because she simply feels they do not care about her. When Melinda uses a paperclip to make scratches on her wrist as a cry for help and to scare her mother into thinking it was a suicide attempt, her mother did not react in the way Melinda thought she would.
“I open up a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is? A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush”(87-88) Mom sees the wrist at
“This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you’ve never dared look at before. Don’t come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind”(10) Mr. Freeman always says inspirational things to Melinda and that’s how the relationship between them grows. Melinda sees Mr. Freeman as a huge role model since Melinda’s parents …show more content…
“ I rock, thumping my head against the cinder-block wall. A half-forgotten holiday has unveiled every knife that sticks into me, every cut. No Rachel, no Heather, not even a silly, geeky boy who would like the inside girl I think I am” (110)
Melinda’s parents have a huge influence on her life throughout the book. Just like all the parents, they can be difficult to work with and unfair but they are still our parents and they still care no matter what they say or do. With Melinda, she seems not be very fond of her parents because she simply feels they do not care about her. When Melinda uses a paperclip to make scratches on her wrist as a cry for help and to scare her mother into thinking it was a suicide attempt, her mother did not react in the way Melinda thought she would.
“I open up a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is? A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush”(87-88) Mom sees the wrist at