Speak AGAIN

Since the blog last week, my group has pretty much finished the book. There are still a few things we need to find out about Melinda, before the book ends. At first, we were getting teased when Melinda would not tell us what really happened to her the night of the party, even though everything she was saying, she was hinting at that she was raped. But still, she never actually said it. This past reading, we finally found out that the night of the party, Mel got really drunk, and got taken out in the woods and raped by this boy from her school named Andy, aka "IT."

Before Melinda ever worked up the guts to say anything, she had to hold in all of this depression brought on by this traumatizing night. The only outlet that Mel has had until this point, is her artwork, in Mr. Freeman's class. Mr. Freeman can tell that Melinda is hurt, depressed, and scared by the patterns of expression she puts into her artwork.

Melinda is sort of losing her newest and only friend, Heather, to a social group, called the Marthas. But, recently Mel has been into this extremely smart boy who is in a few of her classes, her biology lab partner, David Petrakis. They are kind of dating now, it's not official, but they are pretty much dating.

I hope that Melinda's parents come around, and start acting like a healthy married couple, for the sake of Melinda. Whether they realize it or not, they are hurting Melinda by their actions toward each other. If they do not start getting along like a married couple, I think it would be better if they just separated and got a divorce.