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Speak Essay
Symbolism
This book walks us through Melinda's High School experience thought this year. She experiences , bullies, petty fights, and girl cliques. A tree tells Melinda's story, and helps her accept what happened to her the summer before freshman year of High School. Melinda has gone through a lot and no one knows about what happened the night of the party. To everyone at school she's just the girl who called the cops to get everyone at that party in trouble. They think she is a snitch, and she's not. she just didn't know what to do, no one knows the real story and she's too scared to tell anyone because she thinks they wont believe her and she is scared of Andy Evans. In this essay it will talk about what the tree symbolizes, and what her lips symbolize in this book. Melinda chooses her art topic for the rest of the year. Mr. Freeman passes around a globe that has a hole in it. Inside that globe, is one project for every student, no one knows what they are getting. THe globe gets to melinda and she gets a tree. She immediately tried to put that choice back, but its too late. she already chose her destiny. A tree typically symbolizes life and growth, but to Melinda the tree symbolizes death, since Melinda's dying inside by hiding details of her rape. Whenever eland tries to create her tree in art, she struggles. She claims she cant bring the tree to life. She struggles throughout the whole book and the tree represents her high school life this year and how she's going to get through it and bring her back to life, just like the tree. The tree symbol reappears in her fascination with raking leaves. Melinda cleans piles of leaves out of the bushes in her yard outside her house. She works with the "Dead leaves still clinging to the oak branches by the street" (p.167) Melinda likes those leaves. EVen though her trees look dead and are literally rotting. She feels dead inside and struggles, just as the tree struggle to hang on to the
Symbolism
This book walks us through Melinda's High School experience thought this year. She experiences , bullies, petty fights, and girl cliques. A tree tells Melinda's story, and helps her accept what happened to her the summer before freshman year of High School. Melinda has gone through a lot and no one knows about what happened the night of the party. To everyone at school she's just the girl who called the cops to get everyone at that party in trouble. They think she is a snitch, and she's not. she just didn't know what to do, no one knows the real story and she's too scared to tell anyone because she thinks they wont believe her and she is scared of Andy Evans. In this essay it will talk about what the tree symbolizes, and what her lips symbolize in this book. Melinda chooses her art topic for the rest of the year. Mr. Freeman passes around a globe that has a hole in it. Inside that globe, is one project for every student, no one knows what they are getting. THe globe gets to melinda and she gets a tree. She immediately tried to put that choice back, but its too late. she already chose her destiny. A tree typically symbolizes life and growth, but to Melinda the tree symbolizes death, since Melinda's dying inside by hiding details of her rape. Whenever eland tries to create her tree in art, she struggles. She claims she cant bring the tree to life. She struggles throughout the whole book and the tree represents her high school life this year and how she's going to get through it and bring her back to life, just like the tree. The tree symbol reappears in her fascination with raking leaves. Melinda cleans piles of leaves out of the bushes in her yard outside her house. She works with the "Dead leaves still clinging to the oak branches by the street" (p.167) Melinda likes those leaves. EVen though her trees look dead and are literally rotting. She feels dead inside and struggles, just as the tree struggle to hang on to the