Breath life into art for perfection is nonexistent

I believe that Mr. Freeman was meaning for Melinda to relax and to stop trying to create the perfect mirror image of a tree for they don’t exist. He wants her to draw without thinking and to let her emotions catch hold of her imagination for a while. Mr. Freeman wants her to stop acting like every thing she does is worthless and he wants her to leave the mistakes and turn them into something exiting and different. Mr. Freeman is trying to teach her that trees are not strait and that every tree is different from the next.

How Melinda can apply it to her life is that she can stop hiding what happened to her and tell people about it. Melinda can stop living in fear of Andy Evans raping other girls. How Melinda can put what Mr. Freeman said into her art is that she can stop erasing what she sees as a mistake and turn it into a piece of art. Melinda can draw the way that her hand takes her and allow her emotions to come to life through her art. Melinda can draw her being raped through the eyes of a tree. She can learn to be free of all tear full experiences.

Friend's Don't Last

            What Melinda realizes when her friendship with Heather ends is that Heather was the only person that she felt close to. She realized that she was never Heathers friend and that Heather was using her to join the Marthas. She realized that Heather wanted friends who she can relate to, friends that act just like her and joke around. What the end of their friendship means to Melinda is that she is now completely alone and uncared for. The end of the relationship means that now Melinda is open for humiliation because now Heater can’t say that Melinda is her friend. Melinda learns that Heather cares more about how she is labeled that the social life of the only person who cared about her in the beginning. Melinda learns that friends don’t last for as long as she was hoping.

            What the end of their friendship means to Melinda is that she has no one who cares about her. Melinda now realizes that she truly needs Heather and that she is in huge desperation. It means the end of what social life she thought she had left. It now means that Melinda is the only person who has no friends in the school. 

Speak

How the closet reflects Melinda’s mental state is that she has no friends and would like to be left alone by others for the time being.  She sets it up so that it reflects who she is. She covers up the mirror because she doesn’t seem to like her self. She puts up a picture that the librarian gave her over the mirror. The picture is that of an author by the name of Maya Angelou. It is funny because Melinda sais that Maya must have been a great author for the school bored to banned one of her books. It makes me feel that she is defiant when it comes school.

I think that she is happy to have found the closet is because she now has a place where she can go to get away from every thing that is making her feel discouraged. It is her own little sanctuary and her only friend at times. It is a place where no one will expect to find her in an old janitor’s closet. She is happy because now instead of going home she can go to the closet and read, do homework, or sleep, after all her parents did tell her to stay after school to get help from her teachers.