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Melinda is ready to heal.
"The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shard of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up."(198)
"My tree is definitely breathing: little breaths like it just shot up through the ground this morning. This one is not perfectly symmetrical. The bark is rough."(196)
Impact
In this marking Period, Melinda feels frozen in herself, with no escape.
"I am dying to try a different subject, something easy like designing an entire city or copying the Mona Lisa, but he won't budge"(103)
"My tree is frozen"(103)
Impact
She is suicidal and broken. She feels like apart of her is sick.
"I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, the, what is this."(87)
"My last tree looked like it had died from some fungal infection" (92)
These quotes are explaining that because Melinda is so hurt, she feels as if shes not really present or alive.
"For a solid week, ever since the pep rally, I've been painting watercolors of trees that have been hit by lighting. I try to paint them so they are nearly dead, but not totally."(30,31)
"One picture is so dark you can barley see the tree at all"(31)