Melinda’s room was decorated in fifth grade when her whole group of friends decided they were all going to decorate their rooms. Everyone’s room is stands out and shows something about them, besides Melinda, because she doesn’t know who she is. Melinda says “My room was stuck in the middle, a bit stolen from everyone else.(15-16)” It’s evident that Melinda needs to find herself, because all she’s used to is taking bits and pieces from other people. Even though she has her “stuffed-rabbit collection and canopy bed (16)”, compared to the others girls, it doesn’t scream her name when you walk into it. But does Melinda have or do anything that screams her name? Now that she is not friends with her old group anymore, she feels like her room isn’t even hers. Although I don’t believe it ever was hers to begin with. She says “My room belongs to an alien. (15)” She doesn’t feel comfortable in her room; because I’m guessing it reminds her of Heather and her old life. She feels better in her little closet at school because she knows that she made that herself. It doesn’t have much in it, because Melinda doesn’t have much in herself. It’s important to realize that Melinda doesn’t know who she is inside; because that will help you understand why she acts as she does in this book. She’s shy and insecure about herself, which leads to not expressing who she really is.
Melinda’s Bedroom
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“She doesn’t feel comfortable in her room; because I’m guessing it reminds her of Heather and her old life.” This is a good example of Melinda’s life at home and at school because she misses talking to Heather what her life was.
I totally love the way you said, “Melinda doesn’t have much in herself”. It explains a lot about her room compared to her closet. It’s true that her closet at school says more about her than her own bedroom. She needs to open up and redecorate her room so she might feel more comfortable and talk to some regular people for once. Melinda needs to get a life and enjoy it because you never get a second chance at the same thing and that’s why you need to do it right the first time.
Melinda wants to change her room but she doesn’t want to until she gets a group of new friends to help her. Heather could help her do that “It would be so depressing just wake up here every morning. We’ll clear out all this junk” pg 179. At the same time that Melinda hates her room I also think she wants to keep it, because it is something her and her friends did and she doesn’t want to let that go that.
“room is stands out and shows something about them, besides Melinda, because she doesn’t know who she is. ” i believe this too. she does’nt know who she is and throughout the book it slowly developes.