A. Suffragettes: women could not vote, women could not own property, women were not allowed in schools. Melinda completes the EC project but will not deliver it in class—she lands in MISS. Why does David Petrakis say Melinda “got it wrong”(159)? Do you

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David pauses to offer me a stick of gum. It's a delaying tactic, the kind that juries love.

David: "But you got it wrong. The suffragettes were all about speaking up, screaming for their rights. You can't speak up for your right to be silent. That's letting the bad guys win. If the suffragettes did that, women wouldn't be able to vote
yet."

I blow a bubble in his face. He folds the gum wrappers into tiny triangles.

David: "Don't get me wrong. I think what you did was kind of cool and getting stuck in MISS wasn't fair. But don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself."