"I also talked about Pim. I also told her we went down to the restrooms and what we did in the stall. Miss Martha smiled, she said I was the right age for that."
This line really made me feel uneasy. This woman is a horrible influence on Mellie, even though I will say, she was a little to whore-like to begin with. Mellie thinks that having sex somehow makes her more mature. People keep telling her that she looks older that what she really is, and it's engrained in her head that she must also act older as well. Even though she thinks she is more mature, her language used throughout the story is very plain and not mature. We can still tell that she is young throughout the book just by the way she describes people and her thoughts about them. I think that Mellie has had to grow up too fast and she doesn't fit in with anyone in Oat because there is no mention of people having any children.
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