Lullabies For Little Criminals Kyle Kan
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Lullabies For Little Criminals
By: Kyle Kan
This photo represents the use of heroin in the novel. Baby's Dad used this drug when she was twelve.Baby eventually use Heroin, and got addicted. Her pimp Alphonse overdosed on this drug and died.
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Exposition: Baby and Jules, her dad, lives together in a cheap apartment.
Rising Action: Baby meets a pimp named Alphonse and works for him as a prostitute.
Exposition: Baby a 12 year old girl and Jules, her dad, lives together in a cheap apartment, Jules has taken care of Baby alone for 11 years. Baby's mom passed away when she was 1. Jules falls ill and Baby is sent to a foster home.
Rising Action: Baby meets a pimp named Alphonse and works for him as a prostitute, when Jules finds out Baby got sent to a detention center.
Rising Action: Baby meets a pimp named Alphonse and works for him as a prostitute, when Jules finds out Baby got sent to a detention center.
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Climax: Baby lives with Alphonse after her dad locked Baby out of the place.
Falling Action: Baby meets up with her dad.
Conclusion: Jules gives Baby to his cousin to take care of her
Climax:Baby lives with Alphonse after her dad locked baby out of the place. Xavier, Baby's boyfriend has sex with Baby and Alphonse being jealous, kicks and chokes him
Falling Action: Baby meets up with her dad, and he tells her what happened to her mother.
Conclusion: Jules gives Baby to his cousin to take care of her.
Falling Action: Baby meets up with her dad, and he tells her what happened to her mother.
Conclusion: Jules gives Baby to his cousin to take care of her.
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Character: Baby
Central Character
Protagonist
Persuasive, Young, Naive
Hero
"I was very firm on the idea that I would become a drug addict too now (O'Neill 72)".
This quote proves that Baby is naive and young, she doesn't know any side affects or negatives of getting high or how her reputation will grow. she just see's that getting high will be a quick way to be an adult.
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Character:Xavier
Baby's best friend/ first girlfriend.
Protagonist
Weird, funny, innocent
Ally
“We were probably the most different kids on earth, but I felt like we were that same and so did he (O’Neill 232)”.
This quote proves that he was weird, because he was different. Baby thought that him and her were the same because of how weird and different they were.
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Character: Jules
Baby's dad
Protagonist
Suspicious, caring, childish
The Ally
He is Baby's pimp,
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"I thought of him as my best friend, as if we were almost the same age (O'Neill 4)".
This quote proves that Jules is both caring and childish. He spends almost all of his time with Baby. Baby thought that they could be the same age proving that either Baby thought she was old or that Jules was young.
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Conflict: Person vs Self
Baby vs Society
Quote:
"I had betrayed them by turning out to be the type of kid that I was turning out to be. I wished that I could stay a cute adorable kid, but I couldn't (O'Neill 167)".
Baby is constantly gaining a bad reputation by her friends and their parents because of the people she hangs out with and her choices. She wanted all of them to still see her as the cute little kid but that time has passed.
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Conflict affects characters: As a result of this conflict Baby has next to no friends
Conflicts Left:
In the end of the book Baby is given to her aunt to be taken care of.
Conflict:Person vs Person
Baby vs Alphonse
Quote:
"This isn't Baby's place" Alphonse said disgustingly. "This is my place. she doesn't pay rent here. I do. She's a ******* thieving whore. a whore. you're in way over your head. I'd be afraid to touch her (O'Neill 305)".
This quote means that Alphonse is angry at Baby and she is just useless. He also implies that she has been with lots of guys by saying you should be afraid to touch her and calling her a whore.
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Conflict affects characters:
Baby wished that she never have met him.
Conflicts Left:
Alphonse dies as a result of overdosing in heroin.
Theme Statement:
In the novel, Lullabies for little criminals, Heather O'Neill develops the idea that kids turning into an adult will cling to the past, and mature
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"I was just going to have to start being my own person (O'Neill 87)".
This means that Baby is going have to be an adult and grow up to make her own decision. Making your own decision is being mature
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"Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don’t know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair (O'Neill 184)".
Baby wanted to hold on to her childhood and wish she still was a kid because she didn't want to know all the terrible things in an adult life.
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"I was going to make my own decision about love from now on (O'Neill 140)".
This quote means that Baby was going to have to start making her own path for love and not follow others. This means that she was maturing as an adult.
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Recommendation:
1. The character development is well paced
2. It is a good length novel of about 300 pages
3. The plot is very interesting
I would reccomened
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