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There is a tree in our yard. I watch it grow up from a short trunk. It's just like me, silent. I cannot say anything when my parents don't understand me, when my classmats laughing at me, when the teachers talking to me. My throut is dry and burning. I cannot say anything although I want to speak out the truth.

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There is a tree in our yerd, I see this tree grow up from a small plant. Now it is already be a shelter for me, I can feel safe when I stay under this tree. But this tree is half die now.

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There is a tree in our yard. However, it already dead. I was a little sad, because the tree was the last creature which shows the symbol of life in our yard. And now, it was dead one. I think the death of the tree actually show something out, it was like a hint for was will going on for my next life stage. It gives me the hint for my life attitude, and maybe the solution

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There is a tree in our yard, it used be well and strong, flourishing and never attracted by the sun. But now, every time I see it, it looks deadly and kraurotic

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There is a tree in our yard.
But it's dead tree. Maybe Melinda is just tring to regard the tree as herself. They are both lonely, and both dead inside and out.

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There is a tree in my yard. I wish it will be tall and full of lifeness, but it is half death like my heart. Perhaps I can, as Mr. Freeman said, draw a graphical tree . However, it is hard for me to set down the pen: I don't know where to start. The voice in my heart prevents me from doing it.

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There is a tree in our yard.It remind me of my art project.Maybe I am drawing a tree because it symbolize my growth.

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There is a tree in our yard, a shelter to me, a safe place to me. Besides the tree, I can feel its protection to me, which can help me to forget the pain. Moreover, besides the tree, I see its deeper strength, which gives me the help to speak again, to help me to grow again. Tree is my inspiration, not only for the art, but also for my life.

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There is a apple tree on my yard. I expected it to be in good condition, but it is half dead. I grew up with the tree. I became silent and isolated. The tree became half dead yet.

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There is a tree in our yard. It is a sanctuary for me. I can feel its beautiful. But I can not draw it for my art homework since there is no happy in my heart. But the tree is not very well now, just like me. My shetter will disappear, I do not know what to do next.

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There is a tree in our yard. Melinda must think the tree as sort of symbol of herself. The tree is the only one in her yard, which represent lonliness. She is also isolated by others. The tree looks weak and helpless, also represent Melinda herself is weak and helpless.

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There is a tree in the yard ,and my art project is drawing a tree. When I was drawing,I look at this tree , but it is winter.Half of the tree was dead ,such as my passions in my family .None of my parents love me as they do before,and I lost my passion too,I think this is the reason I can't draw a vivid tree.

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This is my tree in my yard. It is dying, like me. Nobody cares it and nobody wants to know more about it. It has been strong before, but now eveything changes. In the past, it was a lively tree and stored all my beautiful memories. I have benn laugh under the tree and play with my parents and my friends

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There is a tree in our yard.I want to draw a beautiful tree likes this in art class.However, I can not fulfill this wish. I think this tree is filled with a lot of great and enjoyable things in my mind, but this can not convey to my drawings.My tree is frozen and ugly that I do not want to see it again.Why I can not create a great tree like the tree in my yard?

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There is a tree in our yard.

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There is a tree in our yard.

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I  want to be a normal one, because she do not want lose her friend an more. Although I feel shame, I still want to forget what happened in the past, and then begin my new life.

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Merryweather is my high school, I  stay in here everyday but I don't like it. People treat me like dirt and nobody want to be my friend. I hate this school and all I want to do is escape from the hell.

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Melinda really loved this name: Merryweather. This is a sarcasm, of course. In this school, she experiencd so many evils. His Spanish teacher kept leaving unreasonable homework. Her relationship with friends sucks. Her life is full of disdain. It seems like she fell into hell.

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I hate my school, because I will always remember that events in the party that make me pain. And my classmates keep indifferent attitude toward me, they never understand me. But school also give me hope, I make new friend, and there are some teacher like my art teacher is able to see my pain from my art. The school let me know everything are improving.

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For me to say, Merry-weather was a quite stupid name for a high school. It was sound little bit childishness and evermore, it sounds stupid. I mean, no one want to spend their high school life in a high school with the name called "Merry-weather". I understand that  the person who gave this name to this school were actually hoping that everyday's weather will be nice and everyone will have a good emotion will the weather.

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Merryweather is truly a good name for this school.It sounds like this school is filled with happiness and harmony, right? However, it just sounds like. Is it a happy place when you can not have any friends here?Is it a harmonious place where anyone really understand you? This name of the school is a huge ridiculous lie.

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As far as i am concerned, Marry weather is not a good name for high school. Take my high school's  name as an example.BRS( Bejing Royal School) is a short name indeed,but very powerful.

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Merryweather is truly a good name for the school. There are truly some good claims about the atmosphere among the classmates and teachers. But I cannot see the real light from the darkness of the school’s atmosphere. There is nobody would like to get along with me. Both the rules and atmosphere of the school are filled with fake issues.

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The name of school is very good .This school forbid human right to speak .Teacher can just give me D without reason . History teacher is a racialism and school ignore it. Mr Freeman is a true artist ,but school cut his money supply.The things school realy care about is grade of student .

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This school is as same as its name, MerryWeather. The life in the school is merry because other students will united discriminate me; when I have peoblem, everyone is the excellent doctor and says its my own fault; when the students in the school have secrect, in order to cultivate the good students, MerryWeather will only care about the academic grades instead of our mental feelings.

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Merrywheather  is a good name for the school. The purpose of the school is let us have merry wheathers. Why it is  a purpose since we do not have it now. I can not get any good time in this school. All of the things in school is  stuipid; I hate everything in the school. Merry weather? That is not exsist in the school.

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Merryweather is truly a good name for this school. Liar, big fat liar! This is the biggest lie I've ever heard.

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why can such a school still exist for this long? why do the teachers can not find the bad guy is among us? Most teacher in this school don't know how to cure a student's heart and also don't know how to teach the academic course, properly. They should never be teachers because they are so selfish. If they are good teachers, how can a school happened the thing like this and nobody notice

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well, merryweather is truly a good name for this school. I don't really want to say but it fits very much. this school makes me lost my mind and uncomfortable, It is like a good place where everybody get blessing without me. Everyone here has a ex- best friend and well, they can't go back again. What a happiness school.

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Merryweather is truly a good name for this school.

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Merryweather is truly a good name for the school.This school really is full of merry for me.I really enjoyed going to school everyday because everyone in Merryweather is so nice to me.

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Melinda think merry wether is pretty fit to the school name. Appreantly, it is ironic. As we can review through this book, Melinda never get propor treatments from her classmates. They dislike her, hate her andfar away fromher. Where is the mercy? No one can find it from Melinda. People only regard her as a strange gril and do not willing to know more about her.

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The school's name Merry weather as Melinda said "suit" the school. I think her reason of saying this is because "merry" means happy. So the combination of "merry weather" means "happy atmosphere" which means the environment of school are happy. Obvious this does not make sense for Melinda who got bully, curse and rebuke every day.

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I  want to be a normal one, because she do not want lose her friend an more. Although I feel shame, I still want to forget what happened in the past, and then begin my new life.

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I will make myself normal. I will forget that terrible night and the dirty thing happened to me. I will try to make some friends or even just someone who likes to sit with me. I will make the friends I had before willing to hear me and understand me. I will overcome the fear in my mind and speak out the truth.

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I will make myself normal if I can speak out. There are so many things in my life put an eye of disdain on me; I bear them. I lost my old and new friends, my reputation, and even the care from my family. Now the only people I can rely on is David, my biology lab partener. Maybe I need to tell him about everthing happened, but will things be changed? Without orientation, I sail on a endless and dark ocean; I firmly believe I will make myself normal but I need a chance.

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I will make myself normal. When the holiday come, I want to make myself normal as a daughter in the family. Exchange the gift with my parent and say some good world to bless the family more peaceful in the next year. But I can't, my parent are too busy to put their heart on their job and business that they don't even have the time to care about each other. I will make myself normal in the school, although on one wants to be friends with me.

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I want to make myself normal.I want things to go back to the way the like when I was in middle school,when I still have friends and the tragic incident haven't happened to me.I want to my family to be like other happy family.

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I will make myself normal just like others. I will escape from temporary trauma. I want to break the silence which restricted me. I will stop others’ biting ridicule.

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I will make myself normal. I will be a nice kids who studing well, having lots of friends. I will not let my parents worry about me anymore. As long as my parents love me again. My ex-friends know what has happened. As long as I speak out the truth. But I still cannot there are nobody who will listen, nobody I can believe. But I will make myself normal one day, either by forgetting the pain or speaking out.

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I will make myself normal. I used to be normal. I had friends. My parents loved me and cared me. I laughed and talked. I had a lot of people to hang out with. Oh, all those old good times. Look at me now. This is not me, not real me. I want the real me back. I don't want to remember that stupid party, that stupid night, that stupid me. I must make myself normal. I feel myself choking with all these nightmares, isolations, and loneliness. I will make myself normal.

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I try to be normal,  i want to be friends with plenty of people in school. However, everybody in school regard me like a freak. It seems like nobody want to be my friend. I am an outcast. I have no one to talk with when i feel lonely. But everything is so hard for me, and everyone are very cold to me .

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I will become normal, I will make some friends and talk with my parents.I will finish my homework on time .I will smile to others .I will be the normal girl I used to be.However ,I will never talk about the experience in party

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I will act like i am normal, but I can't , those things all around bothering me and 'IT" ,the nightmare always reminds me that horrible experience. The trees in our garden already gone for half, like my soul spewing out. I don't want to talk , be a silience girl and die in peace, maybe that is my happy ending.

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I want to be normal. I want to be like students in the school who have a lot of nice friends. I want to have the ability to talk to others as normal, to tell them what I thought, and to ask them for help, if they will not abandon me because of that guilty. I want to be normal to have the same grades as those excellent student so that I may have more friends. I want to be normal to join in many clubs to show my talents, but I don't have the ability to communicate with them. But if the pay of being normal is to tell the truth, I choose to be myself.

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I will make myself normal. Heather tells me I often do something very weird and I never show myself in school's activities.She leaves me because of this. I want to merge with them.I want they can approach me and treat me well.However, I can't. I do not know how I can escape from the emptiness and darkness.I do not know who can accept me. It is too hard for me. I am afraid, even hard to breathe when I remind something which is deep in my heart. Seriously, How can I do?

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I will be normal, just like other girls. I would pretend myself to like what they like, skirts, books and so on. I will smile to everyone, talk with others, even though there are lots of topics I do not know and interest in. Just like other children, I will have many friends. Fake friends are ok.

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I read Liu He's free writing and I think the school spirit he hopes is necessary. Freedom is important for students, and every students need to have it because they have the right to do so. Freedom is somemthing that cannot be controled by others.

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I personally appreciate the work of Chunran Yang, who utilizes basic common sense to describe the rules of school as a kind of spirit. This is graphical and a little bit of abstract.

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Fankaixin-comment for BAI YUCHEN'S free writing.

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Fankaixin-comment for BAI YUCHEN'S free writing.

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Starting the free writing in the position of Melinda, in my opinion, it was a good start. The analyze of Melinda's mind

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You are writing from Melinda's perspective, not from yours, which is not my instruction. So please write another one from your own perspective.

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Liuhe's idea of freedom is good ,he give the example of rule that stricts students right .

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As Chenyue said that she hope the spirit of school can be allow students to speak freely, it is very important for nowaday”s schools

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I believe the spirit of a school should be followed by the whole community in the school but not only by the teachers. You related the spirit to <speak>, which is really good

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fankaixin's free writing is pretty interesting which just talks about the meaning of spirit

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BaiYuchen's comments on Chenyue's free writing

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BaiYuchen's comments on Chenyue's free writing

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I agree with Chenyue's idea. Showing opinion freely can make the students more active and motivates people having critical thinking.

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He says that he hope our school has a spirit talking about freedom, and I'm totally agree with that. Because as young adults, students need to explore their interests and to try to become an adult, which need to have the ability of self regulation. Those strict rules sometimes limit the students' freedom, but more important, they make students' self regulation worse

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After reading I don't know what is wombat.

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The school spirit can be a really important thing for a school to have. It can encourage students to develope to be versatile people and have some apprietiable characteristics. I hope our school can have a sprit that encourage students to show their opinion freely

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I hope the spirit of school will be giving everyone chance to show off themselves. Everyone  has their own special talent: someone may good at sport, while others may be excellent at study. All of the strudents should have their own stage to develop their own interest.

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In school, teacher should take care of students since some mistakes of teacher can hurt students for long time.For Melinda 's history teacher ,he never thinks about his students ,he dislike Melinda just because Melinda's appearance.I think th e spirit of school should be tolerant.

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I hope our school has a spirit that

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If our school has spirit, I wish it to be freedom. The freedom of doing what we can do and what we want to do. I think now our life is a little bit of strict, especially first year student. They are not allowed to use their phone and so on.

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The spirit is the very important part in our life, actually for a group or organization, the spirit is the criterion for their every single movement if the group or organization want to be successful. Our society, our country has the spirit, and it can help the society become more stable, our country

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There is a  spirit that teachehr should keep patience, and every student have apportunity to get help from teacher in Belinda's school. I hope my school also has this spirt, because in this way, students are able to better study in the school

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Today’s topic is the spirit in school. My school do have a spirit.

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I hope our school could have a spirit, that everyone will treat each other without any prejudice. In the novel, Melinda is a kind of person who is not treated the same as others. I believe that the spirit of the school could create a harmonious atmosphere among the students.

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I hope my art's spirit is completely different from the reality I have suffered.I am struggle to speak out what I want to say in my daily life. No one can understand me, including heather, my parents and principal.I dream a lot in the art, express all my emotion and try to make a masterpiece. However,I may ruin it sometimes and the art I made can not satisfy my expectation.

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I hope our school will have the spirit that everyone should help each other and be friendly to each other. Because if we have that spirit, there will no be poor children like Melinda, and the nonexsistence of plastic friendship is also better for students' development of personality and concentration on study. Thus, this spirit can improve students' mental health a lot, which is one of the most significant thing that school cares about.

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I don't really understand the meaning of school spirit. I mean, I don't know the melinda's school's but I know ours. Like interact with eastern and western culture and combine them to educate us. Menlinda 's  school has a strict dogma which limit melinda's freedom and the environment there is like everybody doesn't care about others too much , such a cruel school

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In my opinion, our school has the sprirt that is to develope more and more international and excellent students. It is more concentrate on the comprehensive ability for students,which is not only focus on the acdemeic, but also on the sports, arts, and so on.

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Here is the place for you to write your 5th Free Writing. Your entry is: I hope our school has a spirit that...

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Melinda is a positive girl and she has a lot of friend before the happening of event in the party. After that her parents become not care about her and her friends leave her. And she become lonely and depressive.

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From the picture, we can see a girl who has not mouth, and according the name of book, we are able to know this story is about "speak". Maybe it is a story about the process of girl can speak again.

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Melinda is a wretchedn girl in the school, she has not any friends and it also causes she donot like school too. Because a events before,she cannot speak anything, and her old friend leaves her because she cannot understand why Melinda do that. However, when a new school student who named Heather come to this school, Melinda gets a new friend. I think in the end of the story, Melinda is able to access trouble past, and speak out again.

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Melinda's parents are not care about Melinda, her mother always pay attention on bussiness, and her father only care about his entertainment. In thinkgiving day is the only time get happiness again, just like Melinda hopes.

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I really like dry's comments.I think her feeling about Melinda's performance on art class is quite similar as me. Melinda is a girl who hide herself deeply and hardly speak out her sad secret. Art is the best way to comfort her.

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Actually, I really appreciate Li Chenxing's writing because he makes use of imaginative words. For example, he uses " paradise" to express the emotion that Melinda feels, which is intriguing.

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Comment to Duan Ruyu’s analysis:

What Ruyu showed not only the struggle that Malinda is going through right now, but also the totally different reactions for boys, which created an contrast that allows me to really understand Malinda. Also, she correctly explained the reason why she cannot talk to others about the truth.

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Bob’s writing isn’t very comprehensive. The chapter of dead frogs does describe an experience of dissecting the frogs. But the pain comes from the trauma but not the difficulty of dissecting the frog.

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The plot that Chen yue had  uploaded was new for me, or in another word to say I was totally missed this detail about Melinda. I'm so glad to know that there are finally something that Melinda good at.

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Zhou Runxiang says Melinda's thoughts from inside. He demonstrates Malinda's feelings perfectly. His free writing shows that he has had a deep understanding about the story and  the character.

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I think Alex's writing about Melinda 's thinking is great ,Only the Mr. Freeman can understands what does Melinda thinks and give her some advice

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I agree with his
perspective. The art class is really a place to relax herself. But  sometimes the questions which were ask by teacher still hurt Melinda.Bring back her bad experience

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I read Bai's post. I think we share a very similar opinion about Melinda's art class and Mr. Freeman. We both think that the art class is sort of a sanctuary for Melinda.

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Well, I like Da bai's ranalysise best because I completely agree with her that the art class is the place that Melinda can free from her real life.

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I like Mitch's comment best. because he regards himself as a lovely girl.

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I don't understand what TZC have written, it seems run out of our topic.

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I love BYC's writing, because her writing shows the Melinda's releasing from the truth in her arts class, which is a little bit different from mine. She also mentions the Mr. Freeman, the one I forgot to mentioned, and shows his influence.

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To: Li Chenxing FW#4
I don't think Melinda can really forget everything in Art class because her  work can reflect that she is still thinking about the past.

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i think belinda's post is the best one since her catch melinda 's emotion toward art class.

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Lixiaofan's writing
his writing is from Melinda's eyes to see the art class. I think that is a special angle to read the story.

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For me, art class is one of shelters that I could really understand what I want because while on the class I don't have to think about the terrible fact and hind myself in my own paradise. Focusing on the homework assigned by Mr. Freeman, I could find a real me here, a real me without hesitation, without other’s prejudice and ignorance.

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If I were Melinda, from my perspective, I would consider the art class as the only class I could focus on my own work and have a rest. I have been pressured for many days in school form every aspect. However, I really find my own space in the art class---I can create anything I want to express my personal emotion. Also, the teacher Mr.Freeman, who is an odd man, is actually create a resonance with me. I can feel that he is trying to understand my difficulty; when he talks to me, the sore throat is gone.

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I'm lovely girl used to live in a lovely world. However, all of the lovely things changed in that party night. There were something that I didn't want to recall, because it caused so painful and I started to lost my voice.
I was trying to find someone, trying to find help; but the whole word for me to say, was full with the lie and was absolut

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For Melinda, art class is a place that allow her to express herself, showing some emotion or feeling that she can not talk to other people. It is a place that help her to escape from reality and  save the secret. Actuallly, the grils always sensetive , but the boys are always have strightforward minds. If they meet the same situation,  it is easier for them to forget the bad experience and fit into the group, people surrounding him. In my opinion, it is always hard for boys to pay attention to the atitude of surrounding people, and that is the reason why the friendships among boys are purer anfd stronger. :)

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If I were Melinda, I will consider the art
class as a place where I could release my pain from the trauma by focusing on the art work. Besides, the art class teacher could precisely predict the mental change of Melinda, which really helped Melinda a lot.