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Blue Dress

This object symbolizes the way in which the bullied girl is both poor and fastidious. This object may be wrinkled and it may be her only one, but it is always clean. Later in the novel, Maddie makes a comparison between this object and the Petronskis' small white house and yard in Boggins Heights.

Gettysburg Address

This object symbolizes the theoretical freedoms promised to those living in America. This object plays a part in the beginning of each day in Miss Mason's class, but clearly the students have not studied its meaning, or at least have not absorbed its stated lessons.

Wallpaper

This object symbolizes the similarities between the bullied girl and the girl who stands by and does nothing about the bullying. This object is faded and shabby, but when a colorful gift from the bullied girl is affixed to this object, it is said...

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