Interviewed, Valeria Newcomb:
After interviewing Valeria,I asked her how she felt about the connection between the main character and the tree she has to make all yera long in art class. She thinks that since the tree is damanged, she is damaged. As the tree gets better, she will grow with it. I asked her if she felt like schools are isolating, or is it the student that is isolating. She thinks that schools arent isolating at all, it's the student that makes them selves isolated. When teachers and students make another student feel isolated, becaus ethey want ot feel superior to them. Then I asked her what she thought the main character feelings would be likeif her parents were more involved in her life. Valeria said, if her parents were involved, everything would be better. She would be more willing to speak about the situtation. She needs to learn to speak to people, because if she doesn't learn to, it will hurt her in life. If she does that her attitude will be more positive. I asked her what she has thought of the book so far, even though it is very dramtic. Her opinon was, "I think that the book is somewhat realted to what happens in a lot of public schools. it is realistic but very dramtic. It is very exaturated. It is not likely to happen at a High Tech School."
