During the reading of the novel Lost Boy, Lost Girl John and Martha go in depth of how they feel about the camp and living there. Martha mentions on pg 110 “...I was not ready to get married…” Martha explains that she was a child herself. She also clarifies that she didn’t want to be held hostage by an older man she didn’t love and that either way she had too much responsibility for two people herself and Tabitha for another person she would feel prisoner to her own freedom. As Martha explains on pg 110 “But he would try to convince me, saying all these nice things about me”. Words that men told her still didn’t steal her heart, she was cautious on her walks around the camp since “a man can abduct a girl when she is walking alone, and then