Molting

When I looked at the characters, I related it to the movie Mud from a scene. The book has an accent which makes it easy to get into the world of west, potential outlaws. There is a raw quality where kids innocence and ignorance (because of their isolation in an Orphanage) meet the real world. A controlled 'Lord of the Flies'. Characters Me and Billy are like the differing voices in the head, one giving in to another. The clash and survival of the adventure and wisdom hats.
The teenagers faced with their first brush with freedom and responsibility assess the world with its good, bad and the ugly.