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Heather is a symbol and represents the dark side of many friends. Some people all the time act nice on the outside but somewhere in there they have a hide hidden that they only let out when there alone like here "Here people don't even know I exist. I get squished in the hall and I don't belong anywhere and nobody cares. And you're no help. You are so negative and you never try anything, you just mope around like you don't care that people talk about behind your back."   Some people when things don't go your way just turn around and back stab you and pretend you don't exist kinda like how she is gonna treat Melinda when Heather realizes Melinda is so different than her but is gonna come back like their friends when she needs her.

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Mr. Neck is also a symbol in my opinion because he represents how there will always be someone to put you down or mess with you no matter who you are and what you do like in this scene "My Social Studies teacher is Mr. Neck, the same guy who growled a time to sit down in the auditorium, He remembers me fondly. I got my eye on you. Front Row."  This shows how even her who really didn't do anything but he still hates her without knowing her for a day and continues to put her down and be a problem even hunting her down in the halls and during lunch when there are probably a lot more people who didn't do what he was asking her for. Mr. Neck represents the people who are always gonna hate you and put you down.

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The Tree represents Melinda as she grows and changes kinda like how her art work changes. Mr. Freeman describes "You are on fire, Melinda, I can see it in your eyes. You are caught in the meaning, in the effect  of commercialism on this holiday." In this quote Melinda seems to have some passion with what she was doing with the chicken bones even putting tape over the barbies mouth on top representing her being silent and the tree part where she draws dark trees being struck by lightning and one being so dark you can't even see the tree. It just shows how she has changed it is putting emotion in her art work.

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Art represents her "Sanctuary" she can kinda be herself there and not worry about what others are saying about her. It seems to be where she's most alert and open like the way she talks to Ivy and Mr. Freeman. "This is where you can find your soul, if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared to look at before."  Art Class kinda makes Melinda open up as she did with Ivy later in the book. One of Melinda's Old Friends who supposedly hate her and don't talk to her but now she has started to connect back with one of them and is being quite friendly with her.

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The Mirror represents in Speak how she is kind of ashamed of who she is after what happened at the party as described by this quote " I get out of bed and take down the mirror. I put it in the back of my closet, facing the wall." This shows how she doesn't like the way she looks now because after what happened at the party she kinda doesn't like what changed in her after it and is just ashamed of herself but can't let off the pressure because everyone around her hates her and doesn't care what she has to say about anything.

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The Closet in Speak (Burrow) represents her only Isolation and Safety in school where she can truly do what she wants to do and it's her only safe zone. This shows the Isolation she has that rather than be with people she would rather sit in a closet by herself with no one around to sit in Isolation. This quote "This closet is abandoned -it has no purpose, no name." It is the perfect place for me." shows that the Closet is a place to hide and kind of represents her self with It has no purpose and no name. She has no reason to do anything no one likes her and doesn't really care and she would prefer to have no name so people couldn't figure out who she is.

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Melinda's Lips in Speak are always scabby and dry and as Siobhan says "She's creepy. What's wrong with her lips? It looks like she's got a disease or something." (Siobhan is one of the Martha's) Melinda's lips represent how she always has her mouth closed and keeps them shut no matter what because she can' t say what she really wants to say about what happened or "I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone I don't even know." This represents how she doesn't even know who she is anymore with her saying it's like her mouth belongs to someone else she doesn't even know. It's kinda like she's losing herself as time progresses and she doesn't know what to do anymore.