Young Adult Literature Question
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Which quote best supports the claim that Melinda has a poor relationship with her mother?
- “We sleep in till noon on Christmas…They give me…a sketch pad with charcoal pencils. They say they have noticed me drawing.”
- “[Her parents] weren’t in the house. Both cars were gone. [Melinda] was supposed to have been at Rachel’s all night long.”
- “I open a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist…Mom sees the wrist at breakfast and says, 'I don’t have time for this, Melinda.'”
- “I bet they’d be divorced by now if I hadn’t been born.”