After examining Lullabies for little criminals from the postcolonial point of view, I believe that the author Heather O'Neill may have experienced the issue of dominance and control over one group. She makes this concept well known in the book but I believe the hidden meaning behind this is that she experienced this throughout her lifetime.
O'Neill focuses on the fact that males have more dominance and control over the females. For example, Jules is constantly moving Baby throughout her childhood from one building to the next, whether it's a motel room or an apartment. The author makes this detail stick out, and I believe that O'Neill may have had a father that showed dominance over her and that may have been the control of moving her a lot.
With the Alphonse and Baby situation, Alphonse have great control over Baby and the things she did. He never wanted to see her with any other guy but him, and when he told her to turn a trick she did. This makes me believe that Heather O'Neill may have once had someone in her life who wanted to have control over her and tried too.
When reading through the novel from a postcolonial point of view, I strongly believe that the author is the hidden meaning behind this particular point of view. It's like she put herself into Baby's shoes and possibly relived her experiences but expressed them differently through Baby. It's quite possible that O'Neill had a loss of childhood and wanted to display them through her main character with the issue of dominance and control over another group of people.
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