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| "Think of what that would look life, a wall with glass embedded in it. It would...reflect? Sparkle? Shine on sunny days maybe. Come on, people, I shouldn't have to do this by myself. Glass in the wall. We use that on top of prison walls nowadays. Hawthorne is showing us that hte house is a prison, or a dangerous place maybe. It is hurtful. Now, I asked you to find some examples of the use of color. Who can list a few pages where color is described?" |
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| "Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called 'Symbolism in My Books'? If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story." |
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| "This is Hawthorne, one of the greatest American novelists! He didn't do anything by accident-he was a genius." |
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| "I thought we were supposed to have opinions here. My opinion is that it's kind of hard to read, but the part about how Hester gets in trouble and the preacher guy almost gets away with it, well, that's a good story. But I think you are making all this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it." |
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| "Do you tell your math teacher you don't believe that three times four equal twelve? Well, Hawthorne's symbolism is just like multiplication-once you figure it out, it's as clear as day." |
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| "It is Venice at night, the color of an acountant's soul, a love rejected. I grew mold on an orange this color when I lived in Boston. It's the blood of imbeciles. Confusion. Tenure. The inside of a lock, the taste of iron. Despair. A city with the streelights shot out. Smoker's lung. The hair of a small girl who grows up hopeless. The heart of a school board director..." |
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| "This is really awkward. I mean, how do you say something like this? No matter what..no, I don't want to say that. i mean, we kind of paired up at the beginning of the year when I was new and didn't know anyone and that was really, really sweet of you, but I think it's time for us both to admit that we..just...are..very...different." |
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| "I was the only person who talked to you on the first day of school, and now you're blowing me off because I'm a little depressed? Isn't that what friends are for, to help each other out in bad times? |
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| "When you get through this Life Sucks phase, I'm sure lots of people will want to be your friend. But you just can't cut classes or not show up to school. What's next-hanging out with the dopers?" |
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| "That's the point, she won't say anything!I can't get a word out of her. She's mute." |
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| "Melinda. Last year you were a straight-B student, no behavioral problem, few absences. But the reports I've been getting...well, what can we say?" |
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| "I think we need to explore the family dynamics at play here." |
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| "She's jerking us around to get attention." |
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| "Well, something is wrong. What have you done to her? I had a sweet, loving little girl last year, but as soon as she comes up here, she clams up, skips school, and flushes her grades down the toilet. I golf with the school board president, you know." |
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| "We all agree we are here to help. Let's start with these grades. They are not what we expected from you, Melissa." |
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| "We don't care who you know, Jack. We have to get Melinda to talk." |
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| "Do the two of you have marriage issues?" |
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| "You think this is funny? We are talking about your future, your life, Melinda!" |
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| "Why won't you say anything? For the love of God, open your mouth! This is childish, Melinda. Say something. You are only hurting yourself by refusing to cooperate. I don't know hy she's doing this to us." |
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| "I don't know where you picked up that slacker atitude, but you certainly didn't learn it at home. Probably from the bad influences up here." |
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| "Actually, Melinda has some very nice friends. I've seen her helping that group of girls who volunteer so much. Meg Harcutt, Emily Briggs, Siobhan Falon..." |
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| "Very nice girls. They all come rom good families." |
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| "No sir. ONe of yor colleagues thinks I have an authority problem. Can you believe it?" |
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| "Where did you comef rom? You're too beautiful to hide in the dark. Come dance with me." |
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| "Melinda! Where were you sitting? Did you see that last shot? Unbelievable! Unbefreakinglievable." |
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| "Come on, Mel. You gotta come with us! My dad told me to bring anyone I wanted. We can give you a ride home after if you want. It'll be fun. YOu do remember fun, don't you?" |
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| "Get alife. It was just pizza. He wasn't gonig to try anything. His parents were going to be ther! You worry too much. You're never gong to let us have any fun, are you? You're going to turn into one of those weird old ladies who has a hundred cats and calls the cops when kids cut across the back yard. I can't stand you." |
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| "The world is a dangerous place. You don't know what would have happened. What if he was just saying his parents were going to be ther? He could have been lying. You can never tell when people are lying. Assume the worst. Plan for disaster. Now hurry up and get us home. I don't like it out here. It's too dark." |
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| "Open your books, now. Who can tell me what snow symbolized to Hawthorne?" |
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| "Your imagination is paralyzed." |
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| "You need to take a trip." |
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| "You need to visit the mind of a Great One." |
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| "Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, zipped from the earth with two angry hands." |
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| "I'm getting carried away." |
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| "You did a good job with that Cubist sketch." |
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| "I'm seeing a lot of growth in your work. You are learning more than you know." |
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| "I don't know anything. My trees suck." |
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| "Don't be so hard on yourself. Art is about making mistakes and learning from them." |
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| "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't what I'm supposed to feel." |
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| "Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag." |
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| "The next itme you work on your trees, don't think about trees. Think about love, or hate, or joy, or rage-whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside-walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know." |
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| "It's kind of spooky. Not creepy, but unexpected." |
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| "Good. That's what I'm trying for. That turkey-bone thing you did was creepy, too. Creepy in a good way, good creepy. It's been months and I'm still thinking about it." |
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| "Stinks. It was a mistake to sign up for art. I just couldn't see myself taking wood shop." |
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| "I don't know why you keep using a linoleum block. If I were you, I'd just let it out, draw. Here-try a tree." |
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| "It's fine the way it is, it just needs some leaves. Layer the leaves and make them slightly different sizes and it will look great. You have a great start there." |
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| "You are getting better at his, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree, but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend-trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch-perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree." |
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| "To get credit for the report, you have to deliver it orally. Tomorrow. At the beginning of class." |
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| "Melinda has to deliver her report to the class as part of the assignment. She made copies everyone can read." |
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| "It was a great report! You read it. I wrote a bibliography and I didn't copy from the encyclopedia. It was the best report ever. It's not my fault Mr. Neck doesn't get performance art." |
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| "But you got it wrong. The suffragettes were all about speaking up, screaming for their rights. You can't speak up for your right to be silent. That's letting the bad guys win. If the suffragettes did that, women wouldn't be able to vote yet." |
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| "Don't get me wrong. I think what you did was kind of cool and getting stuck in MISS wasn't fair. but don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself." |
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| "She's supposed to meet me, but I can't find her anywhere. You know who she is?" |
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| "Hello? Anyone home? Are you deaf?" |
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| "I can't believe she's going out with him. Can you? It's like I don't know her anymore. And he's trouble." |
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| "You must be sick. You're talking." |
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| "I'm sorry. It's nice to hear your voice. Go back to bed. I'll bring up a tray before I leave. Do you want some ginger ale?" |
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| "Let's explore that. You said no. He covered your mouth with his hand. You were thirteen years old. It doesn't matter that you were drunk. Honey, you were raped. What a horrible, horrible thing for you to live though. Didn't you ever think of telling anyone? You can't keep this inside forever. Can someone get her a tissue?" |
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| "I want this boy held responsible. Heis to blame for this attack. You do know it was an attack, don't you? It was not your fault. I want you to listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. It was not your fault. This boy was an animal." |
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| "Was it love? No. Was it lust? No. Was it tenderness, sweetness, the First Time they talk about in magazines? No, no, no, no, no! Speak up, Meatilda, ah, Melinda. I can't hear you!" |
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| "I'll get some leaf bags at the store." |
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| "Looks a lot better. Cleaned out like that, I mean." |
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| "I suppose I should trim back the bushes. Of course, then you'd see the shutters and they need paint. And if I paint these shutters, I'll have to paint all the shutters, and the trim needs work, too. And the front door." |
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| "And that tree is sick. See how the branches on the left don't have any buds? I should call someone to take a look at it. Don't want it crashing into your room during a storm." |
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| "I guess I'm going to the hardware store. Want to come?" |
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| "Don't say it anymore. I know you're sorry. It was an accident." |
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| "I put the caps on. Mr. Freeman made me. Then he sent me in her to see how you're doing?" |
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| "There's a first time for everything. Go in the stall and hand over your shirt. You can't wash it while you're wearing it." |
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| "According to this, she has pissed off a whole bunch of people. One person wrote in huge letters that she's a whore, and all these others added on little details. She slept with this guy, she slept with that guy, she slept with those guys all at the same time. For a tenth-grader, she sure gets around." |
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| "He has such a reputation. He's only after one thing, and if you believe the rumors, he'll get it, no matter what." |
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| "I know. Just add that to the list of stupid things she's done this year. What does she say about him?" |
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| "She's a bitch, that's what you mean. She thinks she's too good for the rest of us." |
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| "I luv Derek." "Mr. Neck bites." "I hate this place." "Syracuse rocks." "Syracuse sucks." |
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| "I think you're going to have to bleach this thing." |
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| "What did you want the marker for?" |
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| "Time's up, Melinda. Are you ready?" |
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| "No crying in my studio. It ruins the supplies. Salt, you know, saline. Etches like acid." |
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| "You get an A+. You worked hard at this." |
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| "You've been through a lot, haven't you?" |
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| "I can't believe it's actually happening!" |
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| "You're not going to scream. You didn't scream before. You liked it. You're jealous that I took out your friend and not you. I think I know what you want." |
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| "You are one strange bitch, know that? A freak. I can't believe anyone listened to you." |
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| "Oh, no. You're not going anywhere. You really screwed things up for me." |
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| "You have a big mouth, you know it? Rachel blew me off at the prom, giving me some bullshit story about how I raped you. You know that's alie. I never raped anybody. I don't have to. You wanted it just as bad as I did. But your feelings got hure, so you started spreading lies, and now every girl in school is talking about me like I'm some kind of pervert. You've been spreading that bullshit story for weeks. What's wrong, ugly, you jealous? Can't get a date?" |
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| "He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage, you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch-by the end of the summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block." |
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| "I can't believe you. You're jealous. You're a twisted little freak and you're jealous that I'm popular and I'm going to the prom and so you lie to me like this. And you sent me that note, didn't you? You are so sick." |
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| "I'm going to the nurse." |
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| "I think I'm going to throw up." |
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| "What do you want, anyway?" |
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| "You've been gong out for, like, what-two weeks? Three?" |
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| "...so smart, Mel, to blow off this stupid group. This whole year has been horrible-I hated every single day, but I didn't have the guts to get out like you did." |
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| "You have to decorate the whole thing? By Saturday night?" |
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| "Actually, we can't start until three o'clock Saturday afternoon because of some stupid meeting of Chrysler salesmen. But I know we can do it. I'm asking other kids, too. Do you know anyone who could help?" |
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| "I knew you would help. You're great. Tell you what. I owe you, I owe you a big one. How about next week I come over and help you redecorate?" |
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| "Didn't you tell me once how much you hated your room? Well, now I see why. It would be so depressing just to wake up here every morning. We'll clear out all this junk." |
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| "And get rid of those curtains. Maybe you could go shopping with me-can you get your mom's American Express?" |
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| "Let's not forget to wash those windows. Sea-foam green and sage, that's what you should look for, classic and feminine." |
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| "That's great. I mean, you've always talked about traveling, ever since we were kids. Remember when we were in fourth grade and we read Heidi and we tried to melt cheese in your fireplace." |
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| "So, you're really going out with him. With Andy, I heard about the prom." |
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| "He is just so awesome, and gorgeous, and yummy." |
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| "What are you going to do when he goes to college?" |
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| "I can't think about that. It hurts too much. He said he was going to get his parents to let him transfer back here. He could go to La Salle or Syracuse. I'll wait for him." |
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