Melody's Pet Fish, Ollie

My class is reading  Out of My Mind By Sharon M Draper.

   Ollie was a very significant fish he was a very cool fish and melody could really connect with him. They were both kind of stuck "swimming in the same direction in the same world". She says it always looked like he was trying to say something because of how he moved his mouth .he always lived in a very small world/bowl and was kind of trapped. 

  Melody is a lot like Ollie because they are both somewhat tapped somewhere and have never gone more than a couple miles away from their home.  Melody and Ollie both wanted to escape so Ollie did.  Melody said that Ollie looked like he was trying to talk all the time and so was she.  She says" maybe he was tired of the same bowl the same log maybe he couldn't stand it"

Melody was depressed but angry at the same time because she says "mom was angry and so was I. I didn't want her to see me cry. She left me with my music and an empty spot on the table .the colors had vanished". She was kind of blaming her mom by saying if she hadn't been so slow he might have made it.


How do you think melody will find her voice?