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Thank you We sneak in Speak the plot I'll ask

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him What happens during the beginning of the plot So

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the first few chapters are about melinda's first couple of

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weeks at school so she starts off the school year

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She rides the bus no one's talking to her she

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runs into her ex friends who hate her fine and

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she keeps talking about it which we don't know what

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it is but she's terrified of it So over the

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course of you know the first few weeks of school

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she meets a girl named heather who befriends her just

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because she is new and needs friends Heather wants to

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know everyone and do everything she wants to join a

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different club for every day of the week on dso

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Melinda who is just like there and available is a

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that is a good first friend for her They stressed

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each other out but they kind of make it work

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way Also meet some of melinda's teachers her english teacher

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and her art teacher In particular Her english teacher gives

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them all journals and tells them that the journals will

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never be grated but but they should write in them

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every day Her art teacher gives each member of the

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class A word and tells them that over the course

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of the year they have to learn to make art

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That reflects that word Melinda chooses the word tree and

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tries to trade it in because she doesn't think it's

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that complicated or inspiring she's pretty bored by it But

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her art teacher tells her that you can't change your

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fate You have to accept what you're given And so

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she is left to figure out like what this tree

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means for her And it's heavily suggested obviously that something

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about figuring out the truth will relate to her figuring 00:02:03.82 --> [endTime] out What happens during the beginning of the plot

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