"Dance Right"

The small girl dancing (pages 129-130) resembles Mary Anne and how she reacted to the brutal war. When Mary Anne realized how foreign the war seemed, her curiosity and emotions overtook her and led her to do something crazy. Similarily, when the young girl realized her life as she knew it was crumbling around her, she did the only thing she knew. Dance. Strange it may seem, but there is a motif of strange behavior in all of O'Brien's stories. Mary Anne, Rat Kiley, Henry Dobbins, and the young girl all practice strange behavior..most likely due to the war and its extremties. If I were in this situation, I would most likely do something crazy...so would many of us "crazy teens".