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Analysis Of The Story 'Lullabies For Little Criminals'

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While reading the story “Lullabies for Little Criminals” by Heather O'neill, we have be introduced to one of the main characters of the story, Baby. Baby is a twelve year old little girl who later in the story turns thirteen. She has stringy blonde hair and is really skinny. Her mother died when she was very young, so all she really has is her drug addict father, Jules. Closer to the beginning of the story Baby believes that even though her father does not treat her very well that he is still a great person. Jules’s behaviour causes her to be put into a foster home, stay at Mary’s house, go to a correction facility and attend “Bobo Academy”. Baby starts to rebel a little bit due to the way she's been treated, she starts abusing drugs and alcohol.

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