Melinda chooses to express her anger in the forms of outer and inner violence. Outer violence is clear in the very beginning when she called the police at the end of the summer party to report the rape but she left before they show up and getting all her friends in trouble. An even more intense and dangerous violence is her inner violence that happened because of being raped in that party and she cannot even talk or tell anybody about what happened to her, and that is what makes her isolated and silent. She wants to escape the world by sleeping or by having a coma for years; or even to forget completely what happened to her by having amnesia. Melinda is living in a nightmare, she is scared and ashamed because she is somehow believes that being raped maybe was her fault. Because of the trauma Melinda is repressing, she has completely withdrawn. She entered her high school as "the girl who called the police and ruined the party" (Anderson 3); so, no one talks to her, and also she does not talk to anyone. She is failing classes, skipping when she can, and engaging in self-abuse of various …show more content…
Andy Evans, "Melinda's rapist", commits verbal, physical, and psychological violence against her whenever he encounters her and even against any other girl in his school. Andy confronts her to make her scared and causes her to skip school and not to attend any class which causes her to get into more trouble. Another character is Rachel; Melinda's ex-best friend. Unfortunately, Rachel has totally turned against Melinda. She, like everybody else, seems to believe that Melinda called the cops at the party just to get everybody in trouble. Anger makes her hurts Melinda's feelings by making fun of her in front of their colleagues. After being two close best friends, Rachel becomes Melinda's enemy; she hurts her mentally and