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Coping as rape victims.

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The main character Melinda tells her story of her first year at high school and how over the summer she got raped. She lost her friends because she didn't tell anyone about the situation. She gets sexually harassed by her rapist throughout the year. As the year goes on she becomes more and more open about her thoughts and learns to express herself through art. At the end she finally speaks out because she’s had enough and broke down and then told her art teacher about that one night that changed her.

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It takes time to come out and tell the truth.

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Speak up before it eats you up.

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To tell a story about a girl that gets raped and to show how she coped with it and how it changed her as a person.

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Melanie was a new kid from Puerto Rico going to a college in Miami. She went to a dorm party and her friends left and she met a junior and they hit it off but she was drunk though at the same time. She went back to his place even though she looks back on it and questions her decision. They start to kiss and when she gets too intimate she tells him to and tries to push him away but he pushes back and the next day she was all bruised up. She didn't tell anyone but her friend and the operator about the night until 3 years later.

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Don't wait to speak up.

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Speak up before it's too late.

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To tell her story about her experience with rape.

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“I see IT in the hallway. IT is walking with Aubrey Cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up.”(45)

“They are talking about IT. Andy. Andy Evans. Short staby name.”(90)

“Rumor-he sleeps with anything.”(90)

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“I went and soon my friends disappeared. I started drinking as soon as I got there and I met this guy that was a junior there.”

“All I wanted to do was kiss him. I thought he was really cute. He told me we should go to his place. I still have no idea why I went.”

“When he stopped, I told him to take me home. I didn't know where I was and I was very scared. He told me he'd take me home the next day.”

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This shows how Melanie describes what is going through her head and it adds distress and curiosity to the readers.

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This shows how Laurie describes one of her characters Andy is referred as IT instead of his name in the beginning because it adds more suspense within the readers.

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Young adults.

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These articles add more awareness and empathy to people who get hazed or was hazed as.

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This is relevant because today more female women and teens are getting raped and sexually abused.