Response to "Marion"

The ways in which this story builds on to sexuality is that there are some adult like references that both the author and Marion experience when being exposed to things such as cigarettes, pornographic magazines, handling marijuana and risking their young selves against the law. The most intriguing part of this story was when Marion was willing to imitate a playboy bunny and take photos mimicking a playboy model, but also made herself look grown when she finds herself attracted to a boy named Jack. She, along with the author who kind of holds herself back a bit from wanting to experience these things, wears bikinis at some point in the story, influencing the author in a negative way with sexualizing themselves at a very young age. Also, the absence of the parental duties for both the author and Marion seems to play a role as to where they do not have any physical or real structured or grounded guidance as to how a child should be grown. When Jack says "Don't feel like you have to ask to touch anything", this allows both Marion and the author to let loose without any adult supervision. The fact that Marion and the author are both apart of an elaborate plan of transporting pot with adults as children, it seems as if they are being forced to grow up faster than they think. What they don't realize is that they may have been too young and naive to understand that the adults are using them for their own benefit.The significance of them calling the adults by their first name shows the lack of respect and training they received growing up. They seemed very troubled, but I wouldn't blame them entirely since these  are 13 and 11 year olds being unfairly supervised by adults in whom they should have trusted.  This reminds me of the "William Wei" story because of that one bad trip he had, which also questions the other bad decision making moments he created for himself as to where he was seemingly depressed, living his life as a broken record over and over again, but the only difference is that he had full control over every decision he made for himself. This brings me to the connection of the author's mother who is sick, and only felt better if she was touched all over her body, which reminds me of that fictional character "Willaim Wei" who would drown his problems out by making physical contact with different women, and also having sex with randoms,  and traveling to another place to physically see a woman he has never met a day in his life, which is troubling.