Baby has been put in a lot of situations where she has been in a problem. A recurring conflict would be her fathers drug use, she deals with it very well up until the point where he has to go in and out of rehabilitation centers and hospitals. Baby is constantly getting shipped off to neigbours houses, group homes or just plain left on her own. She deals with her situations very well when she is brought to them but then eventually starts getting out of hand. Later on in the book, Baby starts staying out late, drinking, and smoking weed. She finds herself dealing with the fact that she has no mother, by hanging around a local pimp, who she considers a "motherlike figure", not knowing that he only wants her to sell her body for him, not that he actually gives a shit..
Baby finds herself falling under the low life, druggy stereotype, and only at 13. I think that she needs to go against all the bad influence in her life and change it around.
Baby has become a prostitute at 13, she knows its wrong but does it for Alphonse (her pimp) becuase it makes him happy. do you think by the end of the book she will grow up and realize, and turn her life around?
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Blog #2 - Character
Okay so, I haven't read up to my second check point yet but the characters have gone through A LOT since my last post.
My main character is a twelve year old girl named Baby. Baby is very independent for her age, although she has just had her 12th. Jules is another main character, her herion-addicted father who is twenty-seven but acts nineteen. They have a very strong relationship, Baby loves her father and hates being away from him, and vise-versa, but he goes through a big rough patch in his life where he goes into the hospital for four months and leaves Baby stranded in a foster home of all boys and gets caught with heroin on him after getting baby back and going to jail and rehab, leaving her again.
Jules made a decision to lie to his daughter and social workers by telling them he stopped using so that he could get her back into his custody.
Baby had to make tough decisions to leave her father to get better in the hospital, and get along with the other kids in the foster home as well as move in with a neighbour the second time Jules left her.
Jules obviously loves and cares for his drug more then the well being of himself and daughter. After he comes out of rehab, what do you think will happen with him? Do you think this is the last he will leave Baby behind? <- this was my first question... but i've been reading. . . . . . . I've been reading some more and now I'm finally starting to get interested in my book.
Jules offered to stay in the Rehab center for an extra month, Baby only saw him once in three. After hearing that he wanted to stay longer, Baby got really depressed. She had contemplated death, and tried to convince herself that she was going to become addicted to drugs like her father. At her neighbour Marys house, the place she was living at while her dad was in rehab, Mary had gotten herself a new boyfriend and was always out. Her boyfriend looked somewhat like a "bum" or a "homeless person" but Mary liked him the way he was.
One night when Mary and her boyfriend Jean-Michel were out, Baby declared to Felix (Mary's son who was also 12), that she had Magic Mushrooms and that they should do them. They were alone in the house and decided to cook up some spagetti and eat them in the sauce. Long story short, they hallucinated and got nauseous and have now tried their first drug at the age of TWELVE!
After Jules got out of rehab and picked Baby up, she was heartbroken at the fact that there wasn't going to be a mother-like person for her, but she was excited to be with her father again. Jules started to become a whole new person, a mean person. His lungs started to get really bad so he had to go on medication that made him angry and crazy, and he would always freak out at Baby and accuse her of doing crazy things at night. One night after taking the medication, he dragged her to the couch and started yelling at her, accusing her of being a drug addict and that she was on drugs while they were speaking.
Baby also got her period one day, and was too afraid to tell Jules because she knew he would get mad, freak out and they would be even farther apart.
One drug lead to another, even though Jules isn't on Heroin, he's on a prescribed medicinal drug. With all these angry gestures and accusations givin towards Baby, what do you think is going to happen?
My main character is a twelve year old girl named Baby. Baby is very independent for her age, although she has just had her 12th. Jules is another main character, her herion-addicted father who is twenty-seven but acts nineteen. They have a very strong relationship, Baby loves her father and hates being away from him, and vise-versa, but he goes through a big rough patch in his life where he goes into the hospital for four months and leaves Baby stranded in a foster home of all boys and gets caught with heroin on him after getting baby back and going to jail and rehab, leaving her again.
Jules made a decision to lie to his daughter and social workers by telling them he stopped using so that he could get her back into his custody.
Baby had to make tough decisions to leave her father to get better in the hospital, and get along with the other kids in the foster home as well as move in with a neighbour the second time Jules left her.
Jules obviously loves and cares for his drug more then the well being of himself and daughter. After he comes out of rehab, what do you think will happen with him? Do you think this is the last he will leave Baby behind? <- this was my first question... but i've been reading. . . . . . . I've been reading some more and now I'm finally starting to get interested in my book.
Jules offered to stay in the Rehab center for an extra month, Baby only saw him once in three. After hearing that he wanted to stay longer, Baby got really depressed. She had contemplated death, and tried to convince herself that she was going to become addicted to drugs like her father. At her neighbour Marys house, the place she was living at while her dad was in rehab, Mary had gotten herself a new boyfriend and was always out. Her boyfriend looked somewhat like a "bum" or a "homeless person" but Mary liked him the way he was.
One night when Mary and her boyfriend Jean-Michel were out, Baby declared to Felix (Mary's son who was also 12), that she had Magic Mushrooms and that they should do them. They were alone in the house and decided to cook up some spagetti and eat them in the sauce. Long story short, they hallucinated and got nauseous and have now tried their first drug at the age of TWELVE!
After Jules got out of rehab and picked Baby up, she was heartbroken at the fact that there wasn't going to be a mother-like person for her, but she was excited to be with her father again. Jules started to become a whole new person, a mean person. His lungs started to get really bad so he had to go on medication that made him angry and crazy, and he would always freak out at Baby and accuse her of doing crazy things at night. One night after taking the medication, he dragged her to the couch and started yelling at her, accusing her of being a drug addict and that she was on drugs while they were speaking.
Baby also got her period one day, and was too afraid to tell Jules because she knew he would get mad, freak out and they would be even farther apart.
One drug lead to another, even though Jules isn't on Heroin, he's on a prescribed medicinal drug. With all these angry gestures and accusations givin towards Baby, what do you think is going to happen?
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Blog #1 - Initial Reaction
AT THIRTEEN, BABY VACILLATES BETWEEN CHILDHOOD COMFORTS AND ADULT TEMPATION: STILL YOUNG ENOUGH TO DRAG HER DOLLS AROUND IN A VYNIL SUITCASE, YET OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW MORE THAN SHE SHOULD ABOUT URBAN CRUELTIES. MOTHERLESS, SHE LIVES WITH HER FATHER, JULES, WHO TAKES BETTER CARE OF HIS HEROIN HABIT THAN HE DOES OF HIS DAUGHTER. BABY'S GIFT IS A GENIOUS FOR SPINNING STORIES AND FOR CHERISHING THE SPALL CRUMBS OF HAPPINESS THAT FALL INTO HER LAP. BUT HER BLOSSOMING BEAUTY HAD CAPTURED ATTENTION OF A CHARISMATIC AND DANGEROUS LOCAL P.I.M.P WHO RUNS AN ARMY OF SAD, SLAVISHLY DEVOTED GIRLS-A VOLATILE SITUATION EVEN THE NORMALLY OBVIOUS JULES CANNOT IGNORE. AND WHEN AN ESCAPE DISCUISED AS BETRAYAL THREATENS TO CRUSH BABY'S SPIRIT, SHE WILL ULTIMATELY REALIZE THAT THE POWER OF SALVATION RESTS IN HER HANDS ALONE.
The novel starts off fast, jumping into everything, describing the plot and the author gives an overlook of what's to come. It answers all the 5 w's in detail.
As the story starts, it basically gives you a clear picture of a young, twelve year old girl that has no mother becuase she died, and lives with her young father who has major issues, is immature and addicted to heroin. She is forced to constantly move to and from places in Montreal and accross Canada becuase her father is always getting into trouble. Not knowing how to raise a child, because he is still a child himself, baby is usually left alone wherever they are living for a week to over a month at a time.
I really like the book so far, and I know it's going to get better. I got a little bit disturbed at a part just after her 12th birthday. Already, she is starting to get the pressure of doing adult things. Her friend, who is 4 years older pulled out a wad of cash and told baby it was from having sex with men and that she started at 12, "you have to lose your virginity at 12" the girl was telling Baby (I forgot to mention that Baby is beautiful and starting to get noticed by the local pimps). That really bothers me becuase it's so young to be thinking about making that decision, at 12 you should be out enjoying your last years as a kid and you should be making it the best years of childhood. I understand that you should be preparing for adulthood but at 12 you should not be ready to have sex, and expecially becoming a prositute.
Q:What do you think is going to happen next? Do you think she is going to make the decision of becoming like her friend, or convert to the good girl side>
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