Silence is the only power a secret possesses. Melinda Sordino will enter her freshman year of high school completely alone. Abandoned and shunned by nearly every teenager she once called a friend for derailing an out of control party by calling the police, the outlook for Melinda's social status is bleak. The year appears dismal until she is challenged in art class to give life and meaning to her blindly selected muse (a tree). Fumbling and failing to create a piece that speaks to her, she sets off on a different journey of discovery each time a subsequent attempt is made. The only way to remove the road blocks to her creativity is to free herself from the guilt and shame of allowing herself to become Andy, the Beast's, prey. Melinda finds that there is strength in numbers when she offers a warning on the door of a bathroom stall to avoid The Beast at all cost. The admonition reverberates when far too many others echo the sentiment.
I was impressed by the symbolic start-stop-discard-repeat-until-I-get-it-right pattern displayed each time Melinda abandoned an idea she formulated to breathe life into her art project. It is identical to the process of trying to give a voice to a statement of importance by choosing silence, rehearsing, and mulling the words over until the perfect combination exists to speak our truths.
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