Rape By Andy Evans

One night at an end of the summer party Melinda Sordino, a freshman was raped by Andy Evans. This means that Melinda was touched sexually without her consent. She then called the police to report it, but couldn’t speak and all the kids had scrambled like a bunch of ants coming out of their home. When she returned to school she was known as the “the who ruined Andy Evan’s party”. Those who she thought were her friends had left her. “There is no point looking for my ex- friends. Our clan, the Plain Janes, has splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions”(pg 4) . This shows how Melinda's friend group has split and now with more people of “their liking” such as the popular kids. Melinda then became depressed and lost the ability

Andy had initially confronted Melinda because Rachel had broken it off with him for groping her at the dance when she didn’t like it. “Andy beast: You have a big mouth, you know it? Rachel blew me off at the prom, giving me some crappy story about how I raped you. You know that's a lie. I never raped anybody. I don't have to. You wanted it just as bad as I did. But your feelings got hurt, so you started spreading lies, and now every girl in school is talking about me like I'm some kind of pervert.” Melinda then tried to walk away but he wouldn’t let her. He then grabbed her wrists and pinned her to the wall telling her “ You’re not going to scream. You didn’t scream before. You liked it.” The first time when he raped her she couldn’t say anything because she was scared but this time she broke free and was able to defend herself him and as melinda fought glass, and wood fell. Andy the Beast doesn’t hear everything dropping and so Melinda takes that chance to take the glass and holds it to his neck and (Pg 195) “pushed hard enough to raise a drop of blood”. As Andy is held at a point he is scared and Melinda continues to say “I said no” and he then nods. In reference to when Melinda screamed earlier “the lacrosse team- sweaty, angry their sticks held high. Someone peels off and runs for help”. He was finally caught and Melinda along with the other girls were finally