Essential Questions

In hard times, what causes come individuals to prevail while others fail?

What is voice and how can we use it?

Do we find or create our true selves and how do we determine where we belong?

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

La niña Aventura

~Tan inocente apenas tiene 9 años y mañana quizas lo entendera. ~Que un extraño en su cama toco su cuerpecito con malicia y sin piedad. ~Ella no entiende que ay personas que se animan solo para hacer maldad. ~Y quien diablos fue?~ Un desgraciado sin corazón. ~Solo saben que hiso el daño y se marcho. ~No havia huellas de aquel que la violo. ~La niña llora, se imagina que ayer mientras dormia algo malo le pasó. ~Mas ver sangrero en su ropa... y un poquito de dolor. ~Como es posible que alguien pueda hacer daño a un angelito de dios? ~ Pasaron meses y la niña con sus traumas se le hace dificil dormir. ~ No se divierte y sus muñecas ya no juega, nadie la ve reir.~Y otra noche el martirio, pesadillas del pasado que la hacen sufrir. ~Ya son las 3 de la mañana y la niña en llanto se duerme por fin!...

Translation: LOL, it says that the girl is 9 years old and she's still inocent, maybe tomorrow she will understand. That a stranger touched her little body without mercy nor compassion. She doesn't understand that there are people in these world who only get close to hurt you. AND WHO THE HELL DID IT? It was an a**hole without heart. The only thing they know is that he did the damage and left. There was no evidence of who rapped her. The girl cryes, she can imagine something bad happened to her tha night before, while she was sleeping. After seeing blood in her clothes... And a little bit of pain. How is it possible for someone tu hurt a little angel from god? Months passed and the little girl with traumas had troubles going to sleep every night. She doesn't have fun anymore, she no longer plays with her dolls and nobody she's her laugh anymore. Another night, she has nightmires from the passed that make her sufer one more time. It's 3 in the morning and the little girl after crying all night she finally falls asleep.

I picked this song because i think its kind of how Melinda feels. She was inocent before she got raped, she didn't know what he was doing so she was abused. She didn't know that he was going to hurt her. He just did what he had to do, and left her there. I think Melinda and the little girl could relate, after this happened, because i'm pretty sure they both felt pain. Once again they can relate, because as months passed they both kind off kept a trauma and they had changes in their behavior. Like the little girl wouldn't laugh or play with her dolls, and Melinda was now alone and didn't really care weather she was social or not, and on top of that, she's really quiet and doesn't talk much.

Ludacris - Runaway Love ft. Mary J. Blige

Yeah, i can only imagine what you goin' through, ladies

Sometimes i feel like runnin away myself

So do me a favor right now and close your eyes

And picture us runnun' away together

When we come back, everything is gonna be okay

Open your eyes.

Forced to think that Hell is a place called home

Nothin' else to do but get some clothes and never come back

Runaway love, runaway love

She's steady tryin to figure out why the world is so cold ....

I chose this song because it talks about different cases women go through.

Melinda should speak up do something about it. Shes not the only one and she needs to know that. She needs to do whats best fort her. I think this song could help

Suicidal Tendencies - Nobody Hears

I talk through my eyes, the words pourin' down

Nobody hears

You ask me what's wrong, but what can I say

Nobody hears

I try to tell you, I try to show you

How else can I tell you, how else can I show you

I'm screaming inside, why can't you hear

Nobody hears

You're looking right through me, like I'm not here

Nobody hears

When the last tear falls down

Nothing gets washed away

Another plea put to rest

As nobody hears, nobody hears

So what did I do to you

That makes you run from me

Now I'm sitting here screaming inside myself

Don't understand why nobody hears

You figured it out, shaped it to your perfection

Nobody hears

Subtracted my feelings from the equation

Nobody hears

Is it all in my mind, all in my mind

Then it would be easy to find, easy to find

When the last tear falls down

Nothing gets washed away

Another plea put to rest

As nobody hears, nobody hears

So what did I do to you

That makes you run from me

Now I'm sitting here screaming inside myself

Don't understand why nobody hears

So if it's all, if it's all in my mind

Then wouldn't it, wouldn't it, wouldn't it be so easy to find

When the last tear falls down

Nothing gets washed away

Another plea put to rest

As nobody hears, nobody hears

So what do I have to do

To make you comfort me

Now I'm sitting here screaming inside myself

Don't understand why nobody hears

So I'm sitting here screaming inside myself

Well I'm sitting here crying inside myself

So I'm sitting here screaming to nobody else

Don't understand why nobody hears

And nobody hears, nobody hears, nobody hears

Nobody hears...

I chose this song because it describes the way Melinda is feeling. She hopes that somebody will notice that something is wrong with her because she's so broken, she can't find the courage to speak up about it. She wants to tell somebody about the rape, but doesn't know how or who to tell. Instead of telling somebody, she expresses her emotions through her art and behavior, hoping somebody will understand her hurt, but "nobody hears" what she's trying to say.

B.o.B. Feat. Eminem Hayley - Airplanes 2 (Official Music) Full!!! (RECO...




I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this!
Cause after all the partyin’ and smashn’ and crashin
And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
I’m guessin that if we can make some wishes outta airplanes
Then maybe yo maybe I’ll go back to the good days!

-. I picked this song airplanes because it talks about wanting a dream or a wish and I think Melinda could use one. Also because eventualy he will fade into blackness and maybe if she had a dream then her life would go back to being good.




Monday, May 10, 2010

The Veronicas-Heavily broken with lyrics.

And now I've had enough of all the hating

Do we even care, it's so unfair

I'm heavily broken And I don't know what to do

Can't you see that I'm choking

And I can't even move

When there's nothing left to say

What can you do

I'm heavily broken And there's nothing I can do

Almost giving up on trying

Almost heading for a fall

And now my mind is screaming out

I've gotta keep on fighting

But then again It doesn't end

I chose this song and these lyrics because I think that this song expresses the hurt and damage that Melinda is going through. Melinda is hated by almost everyone at school and I"m sure that she is almost to the point where she can't take it anymore. The song says can't you see that I'm choking and I can't even move. I think that this relates to Melinda in two ways. When "It" or Andy comes around she can't move and she can't even speak. I think that the part about choking is a huge connection to Melinda because I think that she wants to tell someone what happened but she can't, she chokes on how to say it and who to say it to. Melinda is infact screaming only she is screaming in her head because she won't let anyone in or let anyone know what's going on. Lastly I think this song relates to the novel because it say's gotta keep on fighting but then again it never ends. Melinda doesn't want to be the ways she is she wants to be normal. Everytime Melinda does or tries something to better her life or better her situation something bad happens that reverses all her efforts to make things better.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Staind - It's Been Awhile [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

And it's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
Since I could stand on my own two feet again

And it's been awhile
Since I could look at myself straight
Since I can say I love myself as well

And it's been awhile
Since I've gone and fucked things up just like I always do

And it's been awhile
Since I've seen the way the candles light your face
And it's been awhile
But I can still remember just the way you taste


And everything I can remember
As fucked up as it all may seem
And consequences that are rendered
I stretch myself beyond my means

I chose this because melinda remembers everything that happened that night. and how it say "But i can still remember just the way you taste" this song just reminds me of her so obviously thats why i chose it.

Hilary Duff - Someone's Watching Over Me (Music Video)

i cjose this song because i feel that melinda doesnt really know who she is any more after "it" came along. he made her no know any thing any more. melinda should learn to block people out and not let them hurt her as much as they do now i think she needs to talk to some one.

Found myself today
Oh I found myself and ran away
Something pulled me back
The voice of reason I forgot I had
All I know is you're not here to say
What you always used to say
But it's written in the sky tonight

It doesn't matter what people say
And it doesn't matter how long it takes
Believe in yourself and you'll fly high
And it only matters how true you are
Be true to yourself and follow your heart