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How does Melinda’s final tree art reflect her own life?
Melinda’s final tree art is symmetrical, the bark is rough, but there is new growth. This represents Melinda’s life because she is finally back to being okay again and although her skin is rough, her new growth has come out and she is now standing tall again.
Why does Melinda’s doodle tree look better than the trees she has been trying to draw for her art project?
Why does Melinda’s “doodle” tree look better than the trees she has been trying to draw for her art project? is actually having fun drawing it, rather than looking at is as a project that she must perfect.
What artistic style does Melinda take from Picasso for drawing her tree Why does she like this particular style?
Given a book containing reprints of Picasso’s paintings, Melinda becomes enamored of his cubist works, which inspires her to draw a tree in the cubist style.
What does Melinda make in art class What does it symbolize?
Melinda has taken a symbol of freedom—a bird—and transformed it into a work of art about being trapped and attacked. The Barbie doll head clearly symbolizes Melinda herself—its taped mouth demonstrating her silence, and its turkey bone prison demonstrating how dead, alone, and victimized she feels.
How does the development Melinda’s art reflect her process of healing and recovery?
Melinda slowly recovers her spoken voice as she gains her artistic voice. Melinda is involved in a year-long art project set for her class by Mr. Freeman. When she finally completes the project, Melinda is pleased with her painting, just as she is pleased with the way her life seems to be turning out.
Why does Cubism appeal to Melinda How does Melinda’s tree art reflect her inner emotions?
Melinda’s tree art reflects her inner emotions because she cannot bring herself to draw anything and that’s how she feels inside, empty and stifled. She draws trees, carves trees out of wood, and tries to work with wire.
Why does Melinda draw trees?
Trees, Seeds, Plants, and Forests Symbol Analysis. Near the beginning of the novel, Melinda is assigned a tree as her yearlong assignment in art class. As the narrative progresses, Melinda’s attempts to draw a tree come to symbolize her ability to move past her rape, and to mature as a person.
What does Melinda’s tree look like?
It has two vertical lines for the trunk, some thick branches, a bunch of thinner branches and plenty of leaves around it. But she doesn’t feel much emotion in it, and she thinks Mr. Freeman won’t either.
Who helps Melinda draw a tree?
Melinda’s art teacher, Mr. Freeman, is one of the people who helps Melinda in drawing her tree.
What unique artistic method does Melinda take from Picasso and apply to her tree?
Melinda takes inspiration from Picasso in her tree drawing. What unique artistic method does she take from him and apply to her tree? What is Melinda’s reward for going to all her classes for an entire week? celebrate the basketball victory.
How does Melinda relate to Picasso’s artwork?
After beginning her assignment skeptically, Melinda is bewitched when she gets to Cubism, marveling at the way that Picasso slices up the world and rearranges it. She wonders what the world looked like to Picasso, and even wishes that he had gone to high school with her. She does not, however, find a picture of a tree.
What was Melinda assigned for her art project?
He tells everyone to pull a piece of paper out of the globe. He has written a word on each piece of paper and wants his students to spend the rest of the school year turning each word into a piece of art. When it comes to Melinda’s turn, she picks a piece of paper with the word “tree” on it.
Why does Melinda struggle with her art project?
Who is the one person that Melinda speaks to? Melinda is struggling with her art project. She can’t figure out how to make a tree show emotion, so she looks at Picasso for inspiration. What unique artistic method does she take from him and apply to her tree?.
What mood does Melinda’s art project evoke in ivy?
Ivy and Mr. Freeman immediately see the somber mood of Melinda’s new creation.
What do biology and the recurring tree symbolize what is the author saying about how these things relate to Melinda think growth and change?
The tree in winter time symbolizes Melinda because after her rape and social rejection, she too must shed her old sense of self and regenerate. The frozen and hibernating qualities reflects how Melinda becomes reflective and seeks to better understand herself. Here again the tree’s growth is akin to her own.
Does Melinda ever tell anyone she was raped?
First, Melinda finally tells someone she was raped, a notable moment in her long journey from silence to finding her voice. While Rachel rejects Melinda’s revelation as a lie, Melinda still benefits from the act of speaking up.
What does Melinda learn about trees from her father?
Freeman give Melinda a hard time? He knows she can do better. What advice does Mr. Freeman give Melinda to help her art?.
Why do you think Melinda adds birds to her last drawing of the tree?
Birds Symbol Analysis. When Melinda realizes that there is something missing from her crucial tree sketch, she adds birds, which symbolize her own eventual release from the trauma and depression that have burdened her throughout the book.
What advice does Mr Freeman give Melinda about her tree?
He encourages her to make an imperfect tree, one with character and flaws—“’Be the tree,’” he says. Encouraged, Melinda agrees to try one more time (even as she mocks Mr. Freeman’s advice) to “carve life into my flat linoleum square.”.
Who does Melinda think of when she examines herself in the mirror?
Examining herself in a three-way mirror at the store, Melinda adjusts it so that she can see “reflections of reflections, miles and miles of me.” She is disgusted by her appearance, and manipulates the mirror so that she looks like “a Picasso sketch,” her face and body broken into different “dissecting cubes.”.
How do art and sculpture help Melinda to deal with her trauma?
How does Art help Melinda? Melinda is able to deal with her trauma through sculpture and art because she uses it an an outlet to express her feelings.
