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The report card has her actual grades on it but she is also grading herself. Like her clothes and if she plays nice.

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"I put the gown back. There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see. I head for the elevator. The bus is on its way."
The hospital represents how Melinda is struggling at home and how she can't sleep. She leaves because she doesn't think that she deserves to be there but shes depressed. It might not be something that you can see but it's still there.

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"I get out of bed and take down the mirror. I put it in the back of my closet, facing the wall."
Melinda doesn't like looking at herself so she hides her mirror so she doesn't have to look at herself.

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The tree is a symbol of the amount of hope that she has left. The light inside of her. Every time she draws a different tree it expresses her emotions.

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"I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful."
This is Melinda's cry for help. She is trying to take her pain away. This is her escape from all of her pain and problems she has.

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"This closet is abandoned---it has no purpose, no name. It is the perfect place for me."
Melinda finds a closet that is empty, and no one goes in it. She uses this closet to get away from her problems, and the closet describes her more than her room.

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"David must have mentioned the hairy-eyeball treatment to his lawyer that afternoon because the next day there is a videocamera set up in the the back of class. David Petrakis is my hero."
This quote represents how David is a sign of Hope to Melinda because he'll be her friend and stick up for her.

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"The first thing to go is the mirror. It is screwed to the wall, so I covered it with a poster of Maya Angelou that the librarian gave me."
This quote represents this symbol by saying how instead of looking at her self, Melinda looks and sees a strong women who went through similar stuff as her.