Melinda Sordino Bust The End Of High School

Everyone at Merryweather High School is questioning: Why would Melinda Sordino bust the end of summer party? When really, everyone should wonder what really happened to Melinda at that party. No one actually cares how Melinda feels or what really happened to her. The only thing all her friends care about doing is making her an outcast and a nobody her Freshman year of High School. She has no friends and she has an unstable family life, leaving her alone for her thoughts to consume her mind and any feelings she had left.

Melinda had many good friends in elementary school and all throughout middle school. In High School, she has one friend, who she later found out was no friend at all. Her friend Heather became a “Martha,” also known as a preppy, rude

She is obviously alone and something terrible has happened for her to bust that end of summer party right before High School. In the book, Melinda has a closet at the school that she has claimed a hers. She has this closet because she doesn’t want to be alone at lunch and doesn’t go to her classes very often. An example of her escaping her classes and thoughts is,” I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closet is a good thing, quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.” (Page 51). She goes to this closet when her parents are fighting and she go no sleep or even to just escape reality to stay internally confined. When an individual doesn’t know how to react to a situation they naturally coward away from it. This is Melinda’s copying mechanism when she goes to her