Dolly's Journal Entry 4

 

At first, I hated so much this book and it was bugging me because the principal character, Melinda was complaining about everything but didn't do anything to make it change and wasn't communicating with anyone. But later on in the book we can see that that she is more self-confident and isn't afraid anymore of what can happen if she do this or that, she just do it. Some examples of that would be when Heather asked Melinda for her help and she said no, normally she would say yes because she would feel bad for her but she finally stand up for what she believe. Another example of Melinda's self-confidence is when Andy Evans tried to rape her again for revenge against her big mouth but Melinda didn't let him rape her again, no she fought and screams as hard as she can to get out of his grip. Something that really make me think a lot about choosing stupid love over friendship is when Melinda was finally ready to open up and tried to tell someone what happened, she chooses to tell it to Rachelle but she didn’t believe her because she was so blind by love because of Andy Evans. It kind of makes me sad because she thought that someone would finally listen to her but it didn’t happen except for Mr. Freeman, he wanted to listen to her and what she had to say. In this book, Melinda is flourishing like a tree. The tree she was drawing and the tree in general are really important in the story because it represents her progress in life and how she felt during this whole process. I think that Mr. Freeman make his students do this project to learn about themselves and to help them find a way to solve their problems. The tree also shows that it can take time to be where we want to be but its better later than never and its better doing it with someone than do it by yourself. When we start reading, the author makes us wait and hate her book but if we continue to read it, it’s getting more and more interesting, funny and we are starting to love her book and for some of us we can even relate to her book and some events.