Speak reflective reading quiz

1. Afraid: Shes afraid of the boy who raped her. She doesn’t want it to happen again.
2. Shy: She’s not very loud or outgoing. She keeps to herself more and shes quiet.
3. Hurt: She’s hurt because her friends abandoned her. She thought they were her true friends and they’re obviously not because true friends would stay by your side no matter what.
4. Left Out: She doesn’t really have any friends. She doesn’t have a big group of friends like she did before.
5. Alone: She’s mostly by herself alot. she doesn’t really spend time with anyone besides Heather.

    I think alone is one of the best words to describe Melinda at this point in the book. On page 4 it states, “i am an outcast”. Its actually sad that she even knows she has no friends and that shes alone. She does have Heather but what if Heather isn't at school one day. Melinda will be alone. And maybe Heather is only friends with Melinda because she wasn’t there last year and she doesn’t know about the party.

Melinda’s friends literally hate her as it states on page 5, “...it’s Rachel. My throat burns. Her eyes meet mine for a second. “i hate you,” she mouths silently.” If only Melinda told them what happened they would understand and probably not hate her as much..or at all. Melinda is abandoned. She basically doesn’t have anyone to tell her problems. No one. she is alone.