One of the themes is teen pregnancy, it however is primarily only talked about it the first chapter. This is one of the greatest driving forces for getting Taylor out of Kentucky. Taylor starts in a society where the many of the girls in her school and town become pregnant at a young age. This all but impresses Taylor and motivates her to become someone better than all the pregnant girls of her town. It motivates her even more when Newt Hardbine and Jolene Shanks arrive at the hospital. Newt had been shot by his father and furthermore Jolene had also been shot at while she was carrying a baby. As this reality dawns on her it grips to her soul and immediately changes the way she views the world. This turn of events has a great impact on her future. I think her decision to

Shortly after Taylor bestows the name of Turtle on the baby girl, of what appears be two years old. Turtle is mainly described as a rather quiet baby. When she was given to Taylor she had several bruises on her body. Later because of these bruises it is speculated that Turtle might have been abused physically and perhaps sexually as well. These things have most certainly affected the way Turtle reacts to different things. This sort of behavior is common among young victims of abuse. They do not however go into much detail in this matter, just that she has in fact been abused. Later on in the story Taylor gets Turtle to begin speaking. She however is attacked later by a man in the park late at night with Edna Poppy. Soon there after, Turtle starts to quiet down again.

Later in getting Estevan and Esperanza to safety she come up with a plan for an almost legally way of adopting Turtle. Her only other alternative would have been to turn her over to the state and hoping to be able to adopt her thereafter. Because they are in Oklahoma, the final destination for Estevan and Esperanza, they pass through the "Cherokee Nation". Because both of them look Indian to most anyone else and Turtle looking more like Estevan and Esperanza than her, she puts a plan in motion. In the Cherokee Nation there are no laws requiring birth certificates, that way there is no proof that Turtle is no

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