Kalvin pagan Tembras English 12 29 March 2023 Wtcs Essay In the novel where the crawdads sing Delia Owens describes what it is like to survive on your own in harsh environments like the marsh. Delia also goes on about how mentally taxing it is for a girl her age to experience such things and the way she was treated, because of the way she acted. Isolation and abandonment can have major effects on a child's brain because it is not fully developed yet. It has been proven to cause social anxiety and trust issues which are some of the attributes that Kya portrays throughout the novel. Kya had experienced things that girls her age could never imagen it began when her mother left when she was younger leaving Kya and her siblings to fend for themselves and avoid their abusive …show more content…
Tate had known Kya since she was little he played with her brother Jodie. Tate thought Kya was interesting and felt bad that she could not obtain a proper education like everyone else because of the way she was treated in school and throughout Barkley cove an example is shown in chapter 4 “where ya been, marsh hen? Where’s yo hat swamp rat?”(Owens 30). That was the only day that Kya attended school she believed that the marsh is all she needed not an education. Several months passed and Kya was reading and writing like nothing during their time together Kya had grown feelings for Tate which were mutual, this eventually leads to their first kiss and the beginning of a relationship. “They stopped laughing. He took her shoulders, hesitated an instant, then kissed her lips, as the leaves rained and danced around them as silently as snow”(Owens 125). Kya was not aware that Tate would one day leave for college she assumed that he would forget about her as everyone else did. Tate promised to return but never did this broke Kya’s heart and her