I think an interesting topic for a play would be the effect of neglection and abuse it has on a child. Merrick, besides his deformities grew up to be a loving and optimistic person, where as you here statistics about how if you grow up being abused you will most likely become an abuser yourself. Those are just some intial thoughts, but on a much broader topic just the effects that your parents have over your life. Lucy had to constantly deal with hearing her parents fighting and her mom constantly taking her angry out oh her. When i was reading the book i was constantly thinking about how my mom would handle the situation versus lucy’s mom because it seemed like lucy’s mom never felt sorry for what her daughter had to go through. Yet lucy was never asking “why me” or feeling bad for herself. Both books you see cases where the children still came out as happy adults even though their parents really messed up while raising them.
