feelings on devon; AFTER

The part I’m on in the book is when Devon is in the juvenile detention center. From this part it kind of hard for me to sort out what type of person she is. From my reading is seems that she tries to forget the truth about everything. I feel this way because she acts like she doesn’t know why she went to court or why she’s in jail. I want to believe that her experience was so traumatic her brain will only allow her to remember a piece at a time. On the other hand I think she know she had a baby and her plan was to play like she didn’t know what was happening to her. It sort of hard to know whether she knew if she was pregnant or not. Many people who get pregnant know that they are pregnant whether they want to or not. But I think is possible for a young girl Devon’s age to not know she’s pregnant. I say this because I have a close friend who had a baby at the age14. She told me she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went into labor and had the baby. I asked her how didn’t you expect to be pregnant and you knew you were having sex. She told me she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend one time and was so scared to do or say anything, it came to a point she forced herself to forget about it and act like it never happened. She didn’t know she was pregnant because she never had a period before and she was really huge at the time she couldn’t tell. I think something like this could play a huge role in why Devon’s so confused. Maybe she had something with one of her mother many boyfriends or she just would let herself believe what was happening g to her.