Entry Five: Outside Reading II

It's interesting how all rape victims are similarly connected. "It's not your fault, he was an animal. Honey, you were raped. You said no." Either I'm right, delusional, or watch too much Law and Order: SVU. Over and over victims of all different crimes have to be told it wasn't their fault. Melinda being one of them. She can't tell anyone. She can't speak. I think that coming up in the book, Melinda will speak. After all, it is the title of the book. She needs to get on with her life, learn from it, embrace the good as well as that terrible bad. Everyone needs someone, a friend, someone to listen, they don't even have to speak. It seems to me that Mel doesn't have that at all, but she is starting to become friends with Ivy which is positive. I makes me feel awful just reading a book where the main character doesn't have any hope.

Moving on, Rachel is now dating "IT," "The Beast," aka Andy Evans. She says she'll go to college with him and/or wait for him, which led me to wonder about people's reasons for following their high school girlfriend/boyfriend to college. In my professional opinion, I think that college should be where you can start over, meet new people, be who you want to be. How can you that with someone you've probably known for a really long time that could render you're "blank slate?" It seems to me that if it's really meant to work, things will work themselves out. You will get together eventually. I just think it's stupid to throw your whole college experience away just for someone you may love.