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Group Answer: The conflict is the book is Man vs self. Melinda continues to find her self identity throughout the novel.She refuses to speak up about what really happened at the night of a summer party, causing her to isolate herself away from people who she knew.She begins to express herself through art and starts having contact with a few people.

Text Evidence: I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want  go leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, ,hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is  a beats in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dumped the memory, it will stay with me, staining me.”
(Anderson 51)

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Group Answer The theme of the story is finding one's voice.The story is viewed as speaking out against violence and sexual harassment. Melinda, the  main character feels guilty, even thought she was a victim of sexual assault.

Text Evidence:  “You don't understand, my head voice answers. Too bad they can't hear it. My throat squeezes shut, as if two hands of black fingernails  are clamped  on my windpipe. I have worked so hard to forget every second of that stupid party, and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can't tell them what happened.”
(Anderson 28)

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Group members name: Leilani Nava
Item explanation:  This picture connects with the book's conflict. The picture shows a man who is indecisive whether to choose a side and is having an internal struggle finding which one to pick. In the book Melinda as an internal struggle. She is trying to figure out if she should tell anyone about what happend that night at a party she attended one summer night.
How does the setting affect the conflict?
The setting reflects the theme of the book because Melinda is insecure in almost every place she goes. Throughout the book she begins to encounter "IT" making her feel less insecure about her location. This fear gets to the point where she begins to have issues with her herself and begins to conceal herself in a closet where she feels more safe.

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Group member name: Leilani Nava
Item explanation:
This quote by John Grisham connects to the theme of the book, speak because it connects with the main character Melinda who is struggling to find her inner voice. This quote shows and explains the power of One's Voice and what it could do if we speak and live the truth reality of this world. Melinda soon discovered the power of her own voice through speaking up and letting her story be free.
How do the characters and the setting reflect the theme of the story?
The setting reflect the theme of the story because Melinda feels insecure in almost every place she goes. Melinda reflects the theme of the story because she is going through grueling times where she is having an internal struggle and desperalty needs to find her inner voice. Both of these factors contribute to the theme of the book.

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Who is the main character of the story? How did they change from the beginning, middle and end of the story?

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Who is the main character of the story? How did they change from the beginning, middle and end of the story?

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Group Answer: Melinda is drastically transformed when she's raped by a senior Andy Evan. Melinda goes through her freshman year and we watch as she struggles to change back into the girl she used to be while becoming someone stronger. Melinda start the year as someone who is isolated from people and very reserved to herself and becomes someone who  at the end of the year is considered popular

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"The bus picks up students in groups of four or five. As they walk down the aisle, people who were my middle-school lab partners or gym buddies glare at me. I close my eyes. This is what i've been dreading. As we leave the last bus stop, I  am the only person sitting alone"(anderson 3)

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Group member name:Leilani Nava
Item explanation: This image connects with the character development. This shows how Melinda has changed troughthout the book. Melinda starts the year with one friend and becomes someone who at the end of the novel she is a strong and independent teenager
.How the conflict develop the character? The conflict develops the character because Melinda soon realizes that she should tell anyone about what happend that night at a party she attended causing her to isolate herself away from people who she knew. She soon realizes that Andy caused her to have problems but didn't say anything about it. She learns that she should tell anyone and that she shouldn't let anyone or anything ruin her life.

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Group member name: Alma Peralta

Item explanation: These pictures shows how she is in the beginning. in the beginning Melinda is all alone with no one by her side, then towards the end she finally spoke out and now people are supporting her.

How does the conflict develop the character? The conflict develops the character because she was all alone for what she did even though it was the right thing but now she finally spoke out and now she is courageous and is not afraid to tell the truth.

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Group member name: Layla Johansen

Item explanation: The setting affects the conflict because highschool students are more emotional and think more about how they look and popularity so if they weren't in a high school it would of been different situation

How does the setting affect the conflict?

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Group member name:Layla Johansen

Item explanation: the characters and setting reflect the theme because the character, Melinda was in her high school and that was her first time standing up for herself and not letting andy adams disrespect her and that connects to the theme of finding one's voice because she finally speak up because throughout the story she was quiet and kept to herself more.

How do the characters and the setting reflect the theme of the story?

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Item explanation:it made her learn to stand up for herself and dont let anyone disrespect her

How does the conflict develop the character?

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Group member name:Jada Ochoa

Item explanation: The setting would be the school or the barn where the party was and it affects the conflict by her either having to handle problems with herself or with people at school.

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Group member name:Jada Ochoa

Item explanation: The character in the setting help reflect the theme of the story by showing how you don't have to not make the same decisions as Melinda and how you can help someone or yourself with a problem like this.

How do the characters and the setting reflect the theme of the story?

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Leilani Nava & Alma Peralta & Jada Ochoa & Layla Johansen

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Group member name:Jada Ochoa

Item explanation: The conflict develops the character by showing what/who she is dealing with her problems.

How does the conflict develop the character?

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Group member name:Alma Peralta

Item explanation: The quote from Laurie Anderson connects to the theme because it shares out what the main character Melinda is feeling and who is challenged to find her voice

How do the characters and the setting reflect the theme of the story? the setting reflects from the theme because in a few places Melinda starts to get memories that make her feel uncomfortable. Melinda reflects from the theme because she is struggling to find her voice and speak out because of an event that impacted her life.

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Group member name: Alma Peralta

Item explanation: This picture shows the conflict Man vs. Self which connects with the main character Melinda because it shows how both can not decide to pick a solution to their problem.

How does the setting affect the conflict? The setting reflects with the conflict because when Melinda goes to a particular place, that's where the conflict started to begin when Melinda was sexually abused, from that experience she just felt so lost.