"Jules and his friends have been calling heroin chocolate milk for years...He had red marks like mosquito bites on his arms even in the winter," (O'Neill 10).
Baby is very naive and her father Jules isn't much better. A recurring theme in this novel is innocence and how it is corrupted. Baby is only twelve and her father is twenty-five. Her father think she is stupid enough to think Jules is getting "chocolate milk" from a shady old business building with guards outside who look like murderers.
Baby relates everything bad to something familiar in her live. She related the needle marks to mosquito bites. Baby is so innocent in the beginning of the book and later her friend screw her up, and the poor influence of her father doesn't help...
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