2. How does the description of the phases of her tree project on page 151 compare to the phases that Melinda has gone throughout the whole book? 

 

• When she is describing the phases of her tree project, she is really describing the phases that she has gone through. At the beginning she was confused; confused as to what happened at the party, what did she do that was wrong? Then there was the spaz period where she just did not know what to do. After that came the dead period where she started cutting herself and then she says that she is getting better and she doesn't know what to call that phase yet.  Basically her art was a representation of herself, she was drawing whatever she was feeling. 

Prakriti