Nursing School

Tegan’s plans to go to nursing school and become a nurse symbolize her caring nature. From the beginning of the novel, she is demonstrated as being a caring person as she plans to give her baby all that she can. Then as the novel progresses, she tries to care for Polly even though she believes Polly is colluding with Hank to keep her hostage. Finally, Tegan declines going to the police about Hank and Polly because they saved her life. In all of these ways, Tegan is shown to be a caring person, symbolized in part by her dreams of becoming a nurse, a career whose very basis is caretaking.

Onesie

Jackson’s purchase of a onesie for Little Tuna before she is born demonstrates his caring nature and all that he does for Tegan and her baby. It is Jackson’s job to...