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Melinda's Bullying: A Short Story

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I think that before the story started that the protagonist (Melinda Sordino) was actually bullied. I think that she was bullied for the following reasons she has no friends to hangout with, the names they would call her, and she called the police during a party. . In the following clause I will clarify why I think Melinda was recently bullied.

The first reason, why I think she was bullied is because she has no friends to hangout with during school. This story is a somewhat diary and she writes about her school life. In her “diary” she talks about her grades her different classes she has, the people who she extremely dislikes. Very rarely she talks about people coming over to her house or people that she cares about. I am assuming is that since she doesn’t write about other people or interaction with her peers is because she may have some to little amount of friends. Near the beginning of book she has some friends but …show more content…

This is what happened in the story, she goes to the party with all her friends. Melinda has a great time but, then something happened to her she wished wouldn’t have happened. At the party somebody abused her, this is horrible. After this she called to police which forced them to shut down the party. This resulted in Melinda getting blamed for having the party shut down and no one wanted to talk or have anything to do with Melinda. Considering that all this happened to Melinda it resulted in people bullying her and being an outcast at her school. Melinda has been failing in all classes except art, this is because she didn’t want to speak to anyone since the party and felt the only way to express herself was through artwork.

Inclusion, I think before the book started Melinda was bullied. Melinda was bullied for the following reasons she has no friends to hangout with, the names they would call her, and she called the police during a

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