Throughout her life, Lil' Bit suffers alot of sexual abuse from her Uncle Peck, but she also suffers emotional abuse from the rest of her family members as well. It is not directly stated, but you can see throughout the play her family is not like most. They do not support her with most everything in her life, including the sexual abuse.
In most stories that involve abuse as a child, the child tends to grow up an abuser themselves. Or they seem to have troubles with alcohol or drugs. They also usual have feelings of anger and resentment towards their abuser. In this story however, Lil' bit takes a lesson from her experiences. She learns that forgiveness and family are most important. She realizes her unlce has a problem, and that even though he manipulated her, he does love her. So she forgives him.
The book ends with her driving away. Cinsidering this, and the fact she does forgive Uncle Peck, you can see the way she tends to deal with things now in life is basically by running away from her problems.
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