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Will The CCP Maintain Power?
can’t go back and fix things. Also, as she is cutting away at the linoleum it is like she is cutting away at her old self because she is recovering. The cutting away from the linoleum symbolizes how she is cutting away and recuperating from the rape.
“A sound explodes from me. ‘NNNOOO!!!” (Page 194) At this point Melissa is trapped in her closet, the place that has always kept her safe, with Andy Evans. Once again she is about to be attacked. The only thing that could save her now is her voice. As soon as she tries to scream nothing comes out. Then when Andy starts to get more aggressive Melinda screams as loud as she can. She then smashes the mirror with her turkey bone sculpture. The mirror shatters and subsequently Melinda reaches and picks up a triangular piece of glass and points it at Andy’s throat. Andy backs off and the lacrosse team comes to the rescue Melinda. This gives back Melinda’s ability to communicate and to speak with others. As a result of this Melinda’s reputation with others changes. The people at school now think differently about Melinda and that it wasn’t her fault at the party.
“I slam it against Maya’s poster. I hear a crunch.” In this scene Melinda has managed to recover from the incident. In this scene Melinda smashes here mirror with her poster on it. This small scene actually symbolizes a lot. The act of breaking the mirror represents Melinda freeing her-self from her old-self. In other words Melinda has liberated her-self from the quiet, and scared person she used to be and now she is able to do everything she used to do before the rape. Also the reason Melinda put up the poster of Maya was because she was afraid and scared to look in the mirror to see her self, so she put up Maya in place of the mirror. Maya was some one that Melinda dreamed of becoming. But when she smashed the mirror it was like she wasn’t afraid to accept who she was and she got the courage back that she lost since the rape.
Once Melinda repossessed her ability to speak, attempts one last time to draw her tree. This time she gets her tree to be alive and the more importantly breathe. “My tree is definitely breathing; little shallow breaths like it just shot up through the ground this morning.” When Melinda said this it was like she was talking about herself because her soul is like that tree she drew, it just started to breath. Also her tree is like no other that she’s drew before. This tree is a tree that has both brown and green leaves; it is a thin tree with skinny branches. This tree she drew is metaphorical for her personality and charter in many aspects. First the green and brown leaves symbolize her emotions. Her emotions are half dead and [next page]