Novel Review Response by Lotte

To be honest, I didn’t understand every word from the review. The review is very short, but I think the most important parts are said. It’s a review and it says the things that make other people want to read the book. The first sentence is a good introduction in my opinion. I agree that is about a young life on the streets and the strength, wits and luck necessary for survival. I think Baby is very strong and what she has gone through made her still stronger. She had to deal with so many things that few other children in her age had to deal with. I totally agree with the statement “Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties”, it just describes Babys situation so good.  She is somewhere between childhood and adult life and she looses her childhood to early. She would love to play with dolls and live like a child, but her father and her surround make her give up her childhood. And at one point, when she is okay with selling her body and taking drugs and getting drunk, she passed the “border” between childhood and adult life. Things like that change your point of view and how to see things. I agree that Jules takes better care of his addiction than of her daughter, but I think its complicated, because when you are addicted you change and it’s the addiction that make you things do you wouldn’t do normally. So maybe he cares for her, but in a different way and he is not strong enough to give her rules and protect her from Alphonse. I also agree that Alphonse treat the girls like slaves, he doesn’t care for Baby´s rights. He is a pimp, but I don’t think children prostitution is allowed. Luckily for Baby he ends up dying at the end of the book. Who knows how long he would have taken advantage of her and would have used her to get heroin.