Friday, February 17, 2012

The Homework of Feelings

"I do my homework- choose 5 verbs and conjugate them.
To translate: traducir. I traducir.
To flunk: fracasar. Yo am almost fracarsaring.
To hide: esconder. To escape: escapar.
To forget: olvidar"
Although these words could have been randomly selected, it is fairly obvious that they are not.  First is  to traducir, translate.  Melinda has to translate five verbs. Fracasar, to flunk,  her grades are failing with only an A in art.  Esconder,to hide, Melinda tries to hide the blood, the tears, the pain. Esconder, to escape, Melinda want to escape from her life, escape from her body, escape from the secrets.  Olvidar, to forget,  she desperately wants to forget everything that happened at the party, the reason why no one would talk to her.  These words clearly express Melinda's feelings.

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