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Melinda chooses an interesting choice of verbs to conjugate them. The ones that caught my attention was "to hide", " to escape", and "to forget". She mentioned that she wanted to forget what happened in summer, she always wants to hide from people and/or situations. Lastly she mentioned she wanted to escape (transfer/wrap herself to another galaxy). I think it all relates to what happen at the party and because of how it turned out making why she wants to escape and forget.

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I think Melinda considers herself a wounded zebra and a prey because she sees herself as the victim at every turn of the story. Not that seeing this isn't the truth, but she uses that victim mentality to justify her criticizing everyone.

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I have a feeling that Melinda, Heather, and possibly the Martha's could all become close friends and start working together later on in the story.

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I agree that planning for the future is difficult because there are many things that I want to do, yet I can't exactly know my future career, the point is to work hard, you'll slowly get there, it doesn't happen instantly, it takes some time and thoughts, take your time, don't rush into things.

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I wonder why Melinda maybe wouldn't consider Heather as her "friend' than other form her being annoying.

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I wonder why the students care so much about their mascot like it's going to affect their grade or something.

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I believe that Melinda's grades reflect on what kind of person she is who is someone who is negative and just doesn't like to do anything ( and I feel shes emo a bit)

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I think that the 5 verbs she choose for Spanish correlate with what she is feeling.

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I think that Melinda gets too jealous at other people especially when Heather gets selected as a nurse. She is too insecure about herself.

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she chooses words for spanish that seem as if she wants to escape something that refuses to leave her alone.

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What really happened at the party. She, even before, has mentioned that she couldn't tell anyone why she did what she did. Now she wants to confess what happen which assuming will come up again around the climax.

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I wonder if the Martha's are jealous of Melinda and Heather .

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Although Melinda doesn't consider Heather a friend, it's blatantly obvious that Melinda does care for Heather and deep down accepts her as her friend.

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Melinda mentions watching horror movies in her eyes which I believe she is referring to her bad memories. However, Heather helps her with that. So, I think they are friends.

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she's now mentioned her mouth about five or six times so i think she feels uncomfortable to tell someone else about how she feels and why.

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I wonder how you get a D grade for lunch, a C for dress code, and C in gym class.

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What is up with the name calling? The thing is, name calling is not necessary, I have learned from experience, they won't make things better but worse, it will make people hate them and that is also not necessary. WHERE IS THE DAMN PRINCIPLE?!- They always talk but don't shut up, that's the issue here, before they say things about others, say things to yourself first and learn from your mistakes instead of repeating them and making new things to do that irritate people.

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i wonder why they keep changing the mascot, it seems unlikely to happen in real life

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i think the drama is reflecting on her and er grades cause she got bad grades

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I infer that the school mascot also has something to do with Melinda's own self image or qualities.

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Animals come up a lot in this whole book so far. Even with the wounded zebra, it's like she sees a lot of things as a zoo or something. But even her wording fro "herd" into an assembly instead of saying something like they called the students into an assembly.

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i wonder if they will change the mascot again

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I think they keep chancing because certain clubs such as the ecology club protest based off of events such as tigers being slaughtered. They are going based off of choosing animals that are not endangered species.

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Why is the school so fixed on pleasing others' opinions on the mascot? What will they change to next?

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I wonder why Heather and Melinda didn't become friends in the beginning, they would have to many similarities and would have been friends that would talk about everything, but instead they started with a somewhat terrible relationship but at least things got better for them, at least for now.

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I believe that her grades are so terrible because she constantly in some type of drama

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Lips being a motif is possible, mentioned first a while back about how it wasn't usual for her to be constantly biting her lip so this behavior might've started after the party incident.

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I think her grades are none of the actual grades that were given to her just all the grades she gave herself because there are more grades and random grades that aren't normal.

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i wonder if melindas report card is from her grading herself

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When Melinda references "It" she is most likely referencing someone at the party whom she has a very big grudge against. It could possibly be someone who did something horrible to her which is why she doesn't even want to say their name.

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i wonder how come they keep bringing up her lips

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This reminds me of when I was in middle school at Dream house when me and my rival were fighting and saying mean things to each other as I protected my friends from him but in the end it all worked out, I think the same thing might happen to the Martha's with stopping the name calling.

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i wonder why they keep talking about her lips and why they care so much

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I think her grades are a reflection on herself and how well she does in them. It's not based off of what the school gives her.

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I think that Melinda may be too focused on the fact that she has "no friends", and that she doesn't realize Heather is slowly becoming a person she does nice things for and may eventually care about as a real friend.

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I wonder why Melinda's lip keep being brought up

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The Martha's mention how creepy she is to them, specifically her lips. then melinda goes to the bathroom and washes "off" her face.

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i can infer that heather likes melinda as a friend, since she said that even when the girl was talking badly about melinda

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I think "it" could be a girl from her old clan. This is because she always seems to dread being near them.

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I can infer that the Martha's still don't like Melinda and are continuing to say disrespectful things to her for no reason.

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I think Heather and Melinda is friends

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I wonder if the Marthas are similar to Melinda in personality because they both judge people and pay attention to every detail on people.

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Its interesting how when Melinda looks in the mirror she sees "nothing" instead of talking negatively about her physical appearance.

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i wonder if the girl is jealous of heather and melinda

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I think Heather and Melinda are friends because Melinda could have gladly not helped Heather but still did it either way. Als, Heather even stated that Melinda is her friend.

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I believe that Heather and Melinda is getting closer because Heather told other people that they are friends.

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Something that was mentioned a few times were Melinda's lips. (Or something relating her mouth)

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I wonder why the girl in the Marthas said such negative things about Melinda when Heather called her a friend.

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At this point, I think Heather considers Melinda a friend because she asks her to help, invites her over, and hangs out with her at school. She also said "She's a friend" when The Marthas asked who she was.

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Possible Theme: Friendship, Identity