I ask with great respect to answer my question with a justification of certain passages from the novel. Thank you very much.
The main theme of the novel is explored by the idea of a little girl raised without parents, because the parents had to flee and wrongfully believed the girl was dead, when she was just hiding. The premise is far-fetched, but meaningful. The girl is an archetypal instance of loneliness, because she represents the full weight of that emotional experience, and she also has the constant paranoia that maybe she is lonely because she isn't lovable. That part of loneliness is part of what makes the emotion so bitter, and when she tells Ralph that her traumatic loneliness has left her unable to connect romantically, she also teaches about another sad tragedy in loneliness—the intimacy issues that often come from extended periods of isolation.
