What is Justice? Justice is about freedom and peace, we all have to have some kind of justice. But in Handle With Care, Willow doesn't have any of that. Every time she moves there's a limb breaking in her, and it's a symptom from the disease, ostogenesis imperfecta. Can Willow do anything to prevent from breaking? No, and that's because OI is so rare, that there hasn't been a cure yet. At six Willow is barely even two feet, has to move around in a wheelchair, and is smarter than any other six year old.
Through out this book, Willow's mom is trying to sue the doctor she had when giving birth to Willow, for the money, she says to her husband, but only because I love you, Willow. I don't understand how her own mother could do that to her, and even knowing that Willow hears all the conversations concerning her, Willow wishes she were dead.
So now you see, justice for Willow is never going to be possible, no matter how careful she is. All her life, Willow watches her sister as a role model, but never could she copy her, because her sister doesn't have OI, and she doesn't break every time she moves, or jumps. Sometimes her dad watches her as she stares at Amelia, longing to have what she will never get, and he feels for her, like any other parent would.
Willow will literally never have justice, or freedom, since her mother sees it that way...
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