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How is the everyday feel of the setting important to

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the novel So like a lot of young adult novels

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you're really supposed to identify with melinda and her world

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and her life And so the setting is pretty recognizable

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so that you can kind of project yourself into it

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Whoever you are if you've been to high school you've

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probably seen this So melinda's room is you know pink

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and girly and full of the types of things that

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a normal teenage girl might have She watches the same

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kind of tv that other people watch Our school is

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full of lockers It has a locker room that you

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know it seems like any locker room any of us

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have been in like Everything is like deeply deeply familiar

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so that as the story goes on even though you

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don't understand why melinda is behaving the way she's behaving

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you khun still kind of go along for the ride

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because you could imagine How is the everyday feel of 00:01:23.531 --> [endTime] the setting important to the novel

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