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What Is Melinda Sordino's I Am An Outcast
"I am an Outcast" (4). Melinda Sordino is considered an "outcast" in school since the accident. It's her first year of high school and she's already failing her classes and at her social life. Melinda fails to speak up for herself several times in the book. A few times she kept quiet was when some girls were kicking her, when her parents were yelling and when Heather needed her. The first way Melinda shows lack of courage was at the beginning of the book, when Heather made her go to the basketball pep rally. Heather introduced her to some new people and after they took a seat somewhere in the middle. Turns out the people behind them remembers Melinda from that party in the summer where she called the cops and ran. "My brother
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