The writing style of Mary Lawson appears to revolve around understanding the characters. The story to this point is focused by the characters experiencing their conflicts, and relationships with one another being affected by the reactions to the struggle. Mary is very descriptive about the battles the family goes through without parents, and attempts to make the issues very realistic with lifelike characters. When Kate and Bo saw their brothers fighting Kate describes Bo’s reaction as, “ I looked down and saw Bo shaking so that even her hair seemed to vibrate. She’d gone rigid, her arms sticking down stiffly at her sides, fingers spread, and her mouth was open wide and tears were pouring down her face but she wasn’t making a sound.”
