Write An Essay On The Relationship Between Melinda And Heather

She didn't reveal what happened to Melinda until the end of the third marking period, you only got tidbits of what happened to Melinda during the party in the Summer. Melinda didn't even realize what had happened to her, it felt as if you were going along the story with her.

The main character, Melinda, lost her best friend. Her ex-best friend started hanging out with the guy who raped her, a senior named Andy. Melinda knows she has to tell someone, and protect Rachel from Andy. But she also doesn’t want to help Rachel because she ditched her. “Let her lust after the Beast; I hope he breaks her heart. (What if he breaks something else?)” (Anderson 149). Later on, she realizes that she has to tell Rachel. Rachel doesn’t completely ignore Melinda, so she keeps talking and they act friendly. When she tells her that she was raped, Rachel feels sorry for her, but when she tells her that it was Andy, she doesn’t react so well. “‘Liar!’ She stumbles out of her chair and grabs her books of the table. ‘I cant believe you. Your jealous.’”(Anderson 184). Even though Rachel doesn’t believe her, it was courageous for Melinda to try and protect Rachel. And this courage helps lead her into more courageous actions.

They first met at an end of the year party. At the time, she was entering ninth grade and this was her first high school party. He met up with Melinda after she had a few drinks not long after they encountered they left the party to have a little fun of there own. Melinda feels like she is worthless and not needed. She wasn't able tell him to stop, "’I thought it was a little rude, but my tongue was thick with beer and I couldn't figure out how to tell him to slow down’" (134). Andy raped Melinda and that was only the beginning. He makes her life miserable. All she thinks about is Andy and how he wouldn’t stop. Her influences her life in ways that are not positive. He has her shut out of the world because she doesn’t want to be noticed by anyone. Melinda

She proceeded to call the cops, ending the party and becoming an outcast at her school, Merryweather High, because she did not speak up about the rape. This causes many challenges for Melinda, but after multiple transformations throughout the year she overcomes it. Laurie Halse Anderson uses trees across the novel to represent these transformations by portraying Melinda's growth physically and emotionally. At the

The changing of the mascots also a symbolic for Melinda because she used to have friends, she always hung around with her friends and she used to be a “one piece talking girl” throughout the book as the mascots change so does Melinda both for the better.2. At the beginning of the novel, Melinda calls Andy “IT” because she's afraid of Andy. Afterwards she uses his full name, Andy Evans, indicating she is more willing to face what happened to her. From there, she moves on to call him Andy Beast, suggesting she is not only willing to face him but to call him what he is — a horrible animal, a beast. However, when he confronts her in the art room, she reverts to calling him IT, which reveals just how terrified she still is of him. Melinda shows she still cares for Rachael when she finds out that Andy is dating her and they’re going to prom with each other. Melinda confronts Rachel in the library about how someone raped her that night at the party and that is why she called the police. Rachel is immediately sympathetic to Melinda but changes gears when Melinda tells her it was Andy who did it, but Rachael didn't believe her

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino starts her freshman year of high school with a secret. At an end of summer party Melinda and her friends went to she ended up calling the cops, so now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn't know hate her from a distance. Melinda’s only friend is a new student, Heather who ends up trying to gain

In the beginning of the novel, Melinda was upset and nervous because she called the cops on a party early in the summer. Nobody understood that she did it because she was raped, so all of the school despised her. This caused her to blend in, and act like nothing happened, which proved to be difficult. Laurie Halse Anderson represents this feeling when Melinda struggles to draw a simple tree. She says, “How hard can it be to put a tree on a piece of paper? Two vertical lines for the trunk. Maybe some thick branches… and plenty of leaves to hide the mistakes” (p.32). This shows that Melinda was trying to cover up the mistakes she made, and look like everything was fine. The people who used to be

On the first day of school Melinda states, “ I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don’t have anyone to sit with. I am Outcast.” (4) Over the summer Melinda was intoxicated and went to the party with a group of friends including Rachel, which turned out not to be such a good idea. She ended up getting raped by Andy Evans and called the police, this somehow backfired on her.

Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Over the summer, she and her friends went to a party and Melinda ended up calling the police, causing her friends and everyone at the party to reject her. Melinda's only friend is Heather, a new student, who tries to get Melinda involved in the group called the Marthas just to try to gain more popularity. Melinda, however, is not interested in gaining popularity and spends a lot of her time in an abandoned janitor's closet at the school. This janitor’s closet soon becomes her “safe place”. While she is becoming depressed using self-harm and reliving the past she is silent she won’t speak to hardly anybody not even

Melinda has no friends. Everyone hates her. And school starts tomorrow. But she once had friends and was very popular. But all of that has changed. Melinda’s life is about to get hard and this is when two things really help shape melinda’s identity

I chose to do my research on a local ceramics artist named Heather Dahl. After interviewing Heather, I have learned a lot about her past and in addition, I believe that I've learned some helpful knowledge for myself going into the future. Heather Dahl grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Yarrow when she was 14 years old. Later on in life she moved to Vancouver and now has a studio here which was funded in 2007 called dahlhaus art. Heather believes that the environment she grew up in had an impact on herself as an artist, but personal experience, aesthetic and many more aspects also play a role in her story as well. She knew that she wanted to have a career in the arts by grade 9, but in the beginning she had always thought that she would become

Over the course of her grade 9 year, Melinda needs the support of friends and peers, to help her resolve her conflicts and grow past the trauma inflicted upon her just before the year began. Melinda is haunted by the presence of her rapist, Andy Evans, and whenever he is around, she feels frightened and angry. The smallest of advances from him, even his mere presence, frighten Melinda into silence. She is alone in the moments he is near and the unmitigated fear she has, which she compares to being “a deer frozen in the headlights of a tractor trailer” is a constant reminder if the trauma he caused her. However, as the year continues, and Melinda gains the support and friendship, she is relieved of the fear and loneliness. Having said support

At Scott High School, everybody knows everybody. We all know the different friend groups, who is cool and who is lame, everything you could possibly want to know. This all changed when suddenly, their was a new girl came. She came randomly and like most new kids in a small town, everybody wanted to know everything about her. She wasn't like the others, her personality was different, her looks and hobbies were different, even her friends and family were different. Little did we know she would fit into this little town just like the rest of us.

Tessa had an experience when she realized that high school can change you. Nicole, a cheerleader and the “queen” of the school used to be Tessa’s best friend. They knew everything and anything about each other. Then one day, around the beginning of sophomore year, Nicole decided to not be friends with Tessa anymore. Nicole never told Tessa why she had all of a sudden made the decision to ditch Tessa but Tessa just assumed that the image of a perfect girl in high school had gotten to Nicole and she just wanted to fit in. So every day after, Nicole and her new friends (girls who just followed Nicole around) would pick on Tessa. High school had changed Nicole and not for the better. Tessa was standing up to Nicole one day and said, “High school is only four short years, why would you want to spend those years making someone’s life miserable?” Nicole didn’t have a response and just walked away, she had finally realized that hog school wasn't about your “status”and what people thought of you.Tessa realized that Nicole could change and surprise her if she really wanted to. People can also change in a bad way, just like how Nicole started being mean to Tessa suddenly one day, but eventually Nicole realized the mistake she was making and stopped. People can change in high school as fast as your “status”

Teenage kids chattered loudly thoughout the grey main commons of high school. I walked hand in hand with my brightly patterned lunch bag over to my group of friends. Rachel, my best friend was exasperating over her miserable day so far. Within the group all three of us girls: Rachel, Tiffany and Morgan babbled amongst ourselves before the dreaded school bell sang. Tension