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Mind Map (Characters (Heather She is Melindas friends right now. She is…
Mind Map
Characters
Heather She is Melindas friends right now. She is from Ohio she talks alot AND IS VERY FRIENDLY SHE WEARS BRACES AND LIKES TO BE IN MANY CLUBS. She wants to be a nurse when she grows up.
Mr Neck He is Melindas Social Studies teacher. He has a grey jock buzz cut, and a thick neck. He is very demanding and strict with his students.Melinda and him dont get very well. Hes son wants to be a firefighter
Melinda Melinda describes herself as muddy circle eyes, black dash eyebrows, big nostrills, and chewed up mouth. She is very quiet she dosent have many friends except Heather. She is also very depressed about something that happend She is good in art and basketball.
Mr. Freeman He is Melinda's art teacher. Melinda describe shim as a big old grasshopper body. He is very artistic. He is inspirational when he talks with his students. He has a great imagination and expects a lot from Melinda.
Melindas Dad There is no physical explanation. He is very strict with Melindas grades. He always is wearing a tie when he goes to work.
Andy Evans HE is rich, gorgeous, an he is the one you raped Melinda. Everybody loves him despite of how he is as a person.
FIgurative Languange
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Hyperbole: I dont knwo what im doing in the next 5 minutes and she has 5 years figured out. She is exagurarting she dosent know what she is going to do in 5 minutes/
Metaphor: Mr neck storms into class, a bull chasing 32 red flags. Pg52. it is a methapor because Here she is comparing Mr. Neck with a bull
ALITERATION: We are the wombats, woozy, wicked wombats! Worried, withdrwn, weepy, wierd wombats. Pg69 Here they are chering for the wombats reepeting the letter w.
onomatopoeia: "He shoots.brick. Bounce, two, three... Brick. Brick. Brick. Pg.76 Here she is making the sound of the baall hitting the bricks.
onomatopoeia: "Grades,Blah, Blah, Blah, attitude, blah, blah, blah." Pg. 66 Here Melinda is just immitating what her mom is saying
Quotes
"He glares at the david the whole time he is speaking. Pg. 68 This quote is importnant because mr neck is rude to many srtudets. He is rude to the students that satnd up to him
"She waggles her eyebrows at me." Pg. 63 I chose this quote because you can see Ivy is being nice to Melinda you can also see how Ivy is a nice person with everyone.
I can do better, he say." Pg. 62 Mr Freeman. expects a lot from Melinda. When it comes to art she also talks with Melinda about what she can improve
"I think about studying , but its a holiday, so I park myself in the living room couch and watch an old movie instead." Pg.60 I chose this quote because you can see how Melinda dosent care about her grades. She dosent obey her parents when they tell her what to do
"Traitor. She is not going oto stick up for my poster 89." Here you van se how heather and Melinda re not geting along. You can also see how Heather is friends with the Marthas and not Melinda.
Pitiful if a suicide attempt is a cry for help, than what is this?" Pg.87 This quoute is important because you can see how Melinda wants to commit suicide. We want to know why Melinda is trying to suicide herself
Conflict
"I was supposed to be a Rachel's all night long they weren't expecting me, thats for sure." Pg.72 This is conflict because Melinda thinks about the party alot. Something happend at thios [arty that she cant forget. This conflict makes the reader wants to continue to read to know what happend at the party.
" I turned around. They were taking about IT. Andy. Andy Evans. Short stabby name. Andy Evans, who strolls in carrying a take out bag from Taco BEll.Pg 90 This is conflict because Andy Evans is the one who raped Melinda. Now you know what happend a the party and why Melinda gets panic attacks. Because of this Melinda has a hard time speaking out.
"He is thrweting to sue the school the school district an d mr neck neck for everything from incompetence to civil rights violations." PG. 68 This is conflict because Davids parents want to sue MR neck for the debate he started. You can see how MR. Neck dosent dislike just Melinda but also David. Mr Neck can get fired because of this.