Speak

Authors Note- I am choosing a sentence from the book Speak, and then evaluating its meaning.

"The next time you work on 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. (Page 122) 

This is a really important quote for Melinda, because it's giving her inspiration with her art. Mr. Freeman is telling her that when she does her artwork, put your personality into it, and art is basically a way to express all you feelings and emotions.Melinda has a lot of issues in her life, so art is a way for her express her feelings and that's what she really needs. In all of Melinda's art classes, she's normally drawing trees, which represent life. At the very beginning they were dead, and then as the book started getting going the trees started to have more life, so that could represent that Melinda is feeling more alive.