- Review the section Home. Work. and consider the following questions:
- Re-read about Melinda’s room. Why do you think it looks like this? What does Melinda’s room suggest about her character?
- What does Melinda do with the mirror in her bedroom? Why do you think she does this? What might this action symbolize?
Choose one quote that you think really tells the reader a lot about Melinda's personality. Comment on this post with your quote and at least one sentence explaining why you think this quote shows what she is like. Reply to at least two of your classmates posts.
Due Tuesday Dec. 10th
1. Melinda’s room is mentioned to be a “postcard of who she was in fifth grade”. Her room is covered in roses and the color pink; she has a stuffed rabbit collection and a canopy on her bed. It looks like this because it was her personality. She was probably girly and peer pressured into making her room into something someone else wanted.
ReplyDelete2. Melinda takes the mirror off the wall and faces it the opposite way against her wall, she probably did that so she didn’t have to look at herself; chapped lips, “a whole new person”.
I agree that she didnt want to see herself and that there was most likely some peer pressure.
DeleteI agree completely.
DeleteI definitely agree with all three of you.
Delete1. Melinda’s room “Alien” to her because it isn’t her. Not anymore, perhaps it never was. She was taking ideas and depending on her friends about what to do rather than look and see to who she was and how to represent herself. It shows, in my opinion, lack of self recognition; she doesn’t know who she is. She is uncertain; Melinda is being who her friends are.
ReplyDelete2. Melinda sees herself in her reflection and doesn’t appreciate what she sees, a feeling I often have myself. She turns the mirror around and leans it against the wall in her closet to rid herself of the issue at hand, but creating a long term one while doing so. It shows some self hatred. Depression.
I agree with you.
Delete1. She says her room is like how she once was in fifth grade. Her and her friends decided to change there rooms and have them redecorated. and she was most likely peer pressuerd into changing her room into something that wasn't really who she was, and that she was just trying to fit in with her friends.
ReplyDelete2. she takes the mirror and faces it towards her wall. I think she does this because she thinks nobody else wants to see her and that she is what everybody else is calling her. Making her think that she is not worth looking at and that she is ashamed of herself in some kind of way
Yes, maybe the harshness of words has cracked the shell around her to nothing.
DeleteQUTOE: "Two muddy-circle eyes under black dash eyebrows, piggy-nose nostrils, and a chewed up horror of a mouth." She doesnt like her appearnce, she cant see the beauty that im sure is eveident.
ReplyDeleteI like this quote Kalie (:
DeleteQuote: "Nothing. The clubs are stupid. Want some popcorn?"
ReplyDeleteshe is trying to avoid becoming part of a club so she doesn't have to confront people she has had bad encounters with.
I definitely agree with this. She doesn't want to face her 'friends', because she doesn't want to face her problem.
Delete1. She said that her room had a little part of what all of her friends did with their rooms when they all remodeled. I think it looks like this so that her friends would accept her more, rather than judge her for what she really wanted to do with her room. Based on how the author describes Melinda’s room, I think Melinda was and is a wallflower, because she doesn’t really voice any of her own interests.
ReplyDelete2. Melinda takes her mirror off of her wall after looking at herself. I think this is because she no longer likes what she sees, and is starting to realize why people hate her, because she may be starting to hate herself as well.
"Her eyes meet mine for a second. "I hate you," [Rachel] mouths silently" (Anderson p. 11). I think this is partially the reason why she took her mirror off of her wall in the first place.
1.I think that Melinda was pressured into changing her room by her friends, and it does not represent her at all. Her bedroom is “alien” to her because it says nothing about her tastes or personality. However, it does say that Melinda is easily pressured because she wants to fit in and be accepted by her friends. She doesn’t have enough self-confidence to just be herself, because she is afraid that she will not be accepted.
ReplyDelete2.Melinda turned her mirror towards the wall and put it in her closet. I think she did this because she feels ashamed of her previous actions, and does not find herself appealing at all because of all of the guilt and hatred she holds inside.
“By the time Dad unlocks the door, everything looks the way he wants to see it, and I have vanished”(Anderson p.15). I chose this quote because I think it represents how people treat her as if she is insignificant.