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CHAPTER 34 - Hard Labor
Summary
Her parents decide that Melinda cannot just lounge around the house
for the entire vacation, so they make her go to work with them. She has
to work with all the returned merchandise at her mother’s store and is
stuck in the basement stockroom. The other employees there are suspicious
of her, thinking she might tell her mother what.........
Notes
This description of life at her parents’ jobs reinforces how they have
allowed their careers to overshadow their family. Melinda is sent to the
stockroom in the basement to work, because her mother doesn’t really see
her. She doesn’t understand how this might be humiliating or how ridiculous
it is to even have Melinda there. However, Melinda does........
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CHAPTER 35 - Foul
Summary
Once she returns to school, Melinda finds herself in an indoor “fizz-ed”
class, because there is too much snow outside. Ms. Connors, her teacher,
begins by teaching basketball, specifically how to shoot a foul shot.
Melinda is amazing at it, putting in shot after shot, and Ms. Connors
wants her to meet her there during..........
Notes
It is totally ironic that Melinda’s first real success in high school
would be in sports. She has nothing but contempt for the........
CHAPTER 36 - Coloring Outside the Lines
Summary
Melinda returns to an Art class that is blooming like a museum full
of great works of art. Mr. Freeman himself is now the............
Notes
Mr. Freeman’s Art class fulfills the title of the chapter: he doesn’t
easily conform to what is expected of him and he gives his students the
same freedom. He is a living metaphor of.........
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