House
One of the settings in the book is Melinda's house. She spends most of her free time in her room away from her parents. In her house there are different conflicts that come up. For example, on Thanksgiving Melinda's mom try’s to cook the turkey; however Melinda's mom forgets to defrost the turkey the night before. Thus, her family forgets about the turkey and orders pizza, like every other year before.
During the holidays, Melinda goes through rough times. When she opened her last Christmas gift, she noticed it was an art kit, which reminded her about her previous experiences in school. A lot of Melinda's weaknesses are exhibited in this location
During the holidays, Melinda goes through rough times. When she opened her last Christmas gift, she noticed it was an art kit, which reminded her about her previous experiences in school. A lot of Melinda's weaknesses are exhibited in this location
Merryweather high school
Melinda goes to school at Merryweather High School. A majority of her bad experiences take place in school. This is where Melinda gets bullied, when she's on mute and where her old friends ignore her because of her actions at a back-to-school party. In the school, there are different cliques; for example, the popular kids, the cheerleaders, the math geeks, the no-bodies and the jocks. Melinda was in the no-bodies group. She dreads her school very much. In my opinion I wouldn't like to go to school if this was happening to me. At her school you get your daily dose of drama; once Melinda fainted when her biology teacher was dissecting frogs, another scenario was when Melinda was walking in the cafeteria and all of her lunch spilled all over her clothes. Merryweather High School is not Melinda Sordino's cup of tea.
Melinda's closet in school
Melinda spends most of her time at school inside a closet that she found on the first week of school. It is an abandoned closet that no one uses. When Melinda is sick of school or just needs some down time she will go to the closet, she believes it is the only place where on one can either see her or harm her. Melinda usually spends her free time in the dusty closet drawing trees for Mr. Freeman’s class or catching up on sleep. One of the biggest events in the book happens in this closet. In this closet is where Melinda first stands up for herself and
starts to not be known as the "mute" of the school. The event that occurred in the closet is where Andy, the beast, tried to rape Melinda for a second time. The first time he raped her Melinda was afraid and didn't know what to do; this is what caused Melinda to become a "mute." In my opinion I think it is a goodthing that Melinda found the closet in the first place because if she didn’t have the closet then there would have been no opportunity for Melinda to stand up for herself.
starts to not be known as the "mute" of the school. The event that occurred in the closet is where Andy, the beast, tried to rape Melinda for a second time. The first time he raped her Melinda was afraid and didn't know what to do; this is what caused Melinda to become a "mute." In my opinion I think it is a goodthing that Melinda found the closet in the first place because if she didn’t have the closet then there would have been no opportunity for Melinda to stand up for herself.