![]() ![]() After some time, the young girl feels a desire to free herself: “A small, clean part of me waits to warm and burst through the surface” (Anderson, 1999, p. Readers understand that Melinda feels dirty, a terrible event haunts her, and at the same moment, she feels guilty, like most victims of violence, although she did nothing.įeelings of anger and guilt depress Melinda, most clearly manifesting in the fact that she hardly speaks. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me.” (Anderson, 1999, p. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. The narrator states, “I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. ![]() Readers have access to all her thoughts and feelings, introspection, and attempts to find a way out and speak about the problem. The book is structured like a diary of the main character Melinda Sordino, who survived violence by a classmate, and at the same time, became an outcast in school. ![]()
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