Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
The change and hope of growing up
Melinda Sordino didn't want to speak. She was quiet, collected and kept to herself. She didn't have any friends and she ate lunch by herself. Melinda just didn't know what to do with herself and with the people around her. But it wasn't always like that. And it didn't stay that way.
Melinda experienced a realization that what happened to her, what IT (Andy Evans) did to her wasn't okay. And she finally found the words at the end of the book to tell people what happened. She had changed. She learned what she had to say. And what she had to say was that he did what he did, there's no going back and I can't just pretend that it didn't happen. It's hard to just bury experiences under the gravel of your brain. It's hard to just not think about things and then pretend that they didn't happen. Experiences make us who we are. If we forget some or just leave some behind and forget them, we won't know who we really are. And we won't know how to deal with people.
As children we tell everybody everything. When I was little I told my mom everything that was going on. What I had done at school, what I had done after school, what kind of homework I had what other people in my class were doing and it would be a play by play of every minute. My little sister who is three goes up to random strangers and tells them "this is my big sister Scarlett". When we're little we are open about everything because that's the only way we know how to be. We don't have anything to hide because we are apart of the innocents. Those who haven't done anything or have become apart of something or pulled away from something. We're just little kids.
When we get older we start having things to hide. Things that we don't feel like talking about. Things that for the most part should just say to ourselves. Things that shouldn't be shared and should be taken to the grave. But how do we decide what those things are. So many things happen in one lifetime because of all the life that we live. What should be spoken and what should be kept a secret? This is where Melinda got confused. She didn't know what should be said and what shouldn't be said.
Melinda experienced a realization that what happened to her, what IT (Andy Evans) did to her wasn't okay. And she finally found the words at the end of the book to tell people what happened. She had changed. She learned what she had to say. And what she had to say was that he did what he did, there's no going back and I can't just pretend that it didn't happen. It's hard to just bury experiences under the gravel of your brain. It's hard to just not think about things and then pretend that they didn't happen. Experiences make us who we are. If we forget some or just leave some behind and forget them, we won't know who we really are. And we won't know how to deal with people.
As children we tell everybody everything. When I was little I told my mom everything that was going on. What I had done at school, what I had done after school, what kind of homework I had what other people in my class were doing and it would be a play by play of every minute. My little sister who is three goes up to random strangers and tells them "this is my big sister Scarlett". When we're little we are open about everything because that's the only way we know how to be. We don't have anything to hide because we are apart of the innocents. Those who haven't done anything or have become apart of something or pulled away from something. We're just little kids.
When we get older we start having things to hide. Things that we don't feel like talking about. Things that for the most part should just say to ourselves. Things that shouldn't be shared and should be taken to the grave. But how do we decide what those things are. So many things happen in one lifetime because of all the life that we live. What should be spoken and what should be kept a secret? This is where Melinda got confused. She didn't know what should be said and what shouldn't be said.
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