Art Class Melinda Sordino Analysis
Melinda Sordino was raped by Andy Evans at a party during summer in August. She called the police but she was too shocked and scared from the event that she couldn’t say anything to the woman on the phone. Someone from the party found out she called the police and told everyone. The police came and arrested some of the students, but by that time Melinda has already left and gone home. Ever since then none of Melinda’s friends have talked to her. They ignore her and blame her for ruining the party, never knowing what truly happened that night. Melinda tries to talk to her ex- friends but they either just walk away from her when she comes to them or they just ignore her. A transfer student from Ohio, named Heather, befriends her and hangs out
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One day she finds an unused janitor’s closet, and she makes the room a ‘safe place’ she can go to for comfort. In Art class Melinda expresses her feelings into the trees she makes. They are usually gloomy and dark looking, and Mr. Freeman comments on one of her sculptures about it showing “pain.” Rachel, Melinda’s ex- best friend, starts dating Andy ‘Beast’ Evans but when Melinda tells her about him raping her, she accuses her of being jealous. Despite what Rachel says she dumps Andy during prom and accuses him of having raped Melinda in front of the other …show more content…
It is the fear that everyone will look at her in disgust. She grows quite after the event of the rape and barely talks even with her own parents. Whenever she talks she starts stuttering in nervousness. When she tries to tell her parents the truth, she hesitates and doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t confide in anyone and keeps the secret bottled up inside herself. She hurts herself by trying to cut her wrist with a paperclip. Her mother yells at her for trying to commit suicide, completely ignoring her ‘whimper’ for help. When her parents talk to her she doesn’t say anything to them and keeps silent. She refuses to orally present her suffragettes report in front of the class when Mr. Neck tells her
One day she finds an unused janitor’s closet, and she makes the room a ‘safe place’ she can go to for comfort. In Art class Melinda expresses her feelings into the trees she makes. They are usually gloomy and dark looking, and Mr. Freeman comments on one of her sculptures about it showing “pain.” Rachel, Melinda’s ex- best friend, starts dating Andy ‘Beast’ Evans but when Melinda tells her about him raping her, she accuses her of being jealous. Despite what Rachel says she dumps Andy during prom and accuses him of having raped Melinda in front of the other …show more content…
It is the fear that everyone will look at her in disgust. She grows quite after the event of the rape and barely talks even with her own parents. Whenever she talks she starts stuttering in nervousness. When she tries to tell her parents the truth, she hesitates and doesn’t say anything. She doesn’t confide in anyone and keeps the secret bottled up inside herself. She hurts herself by trying to cut her wrist with a paperclip. Her mother yells at her for trying to commit suicide, completely ignoring her ‘whimper’ for help. When her parents talk to her she doesn’t say anything to them and keeps silent. She refuses to orally present her suffragettes report in front of the class when Mr. Neck tells her