speak discussion questions 3

1. She skips school because she got in a fight with her mom and that causes her to miss the bus. After that she thinks to herself "why even go to school?".

2. Being a child is a little better than being a teenager because you dont have as many responsibilities. plus you have more protection. But its also better to be older becasue you get more freedoms than you had as a kid. people take you more seriously(sometimes) and you get to have some good times. But its aslo hard being a teenager becasue adults dont take you very serioulsy becasue they still think of us as kids and your teenage years are some of the hardest years in your life.

3. In the scarlet letter the main character had to wear an A on her at all times. well in the story melinda has to go everywhere with a big imagonary sign that says "im the one who called the cops at the party of the year, hate me."

4. Heather tells melinda that maybe when she gets out of this "life sucks" phase that they could be friends again. Heather has high standards for melinda and since she doesn't fit those standards heather ends the friendship between them. Melinda takes it hard becasue heather was her one true friend in the whole world.

5. Valentines day was one of the worst for melinda becasue the only encounter she's had with another guy was the rape.

6. Because she thinks they should really be teaching them more about love and betrayal rather than reproduction becasue its those two things that they should teach you but dont about relationships and sex and things like that.

7. She freaks out because andy is in there so she goes back into her rabbit senses and sits still hoping he wont see her.

8. She looks at him like he's the only person who isn't afraid to truely express himself. yes i doo agree with that statement. When you hide certain things inside you so that you can be something else the things you hide slowly start to die off and you become more like what you pretend to be.

9. Mr. Freeman may mean that if you surround yourself in what isn't you or what you aren't that you'll never see who you are. you have to walk alone, walk by yourself to realize what path you might take by your own choice and not someone elses. This means without your own understanding of yourself you are nothing and you mean nothing unless you know you meaning..or something..i dont know...its probably ture and a soul is your core being the thing inside that described you and your personality and your life.

10. Everything is like that. playing an instrument, playing a sport, or in school. To get better at something you look at what your doing wrong and try to change or fix that mistake. You never get better unless you fix you mistakes so learn what you dont do right.

11.Melinda's survival techniques are that she just imagines heather after 2 kids and 70 pounds.