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When Lori and Jeanette are growing older, they decide they want to move to New York City to start a new life, away from their parents. Lori and Jeanette get jobs and begin to earn money. They hide their earnings from their parents in a piggy bank they named Oz. One day Jeanette tries to find Oz to put her paycheck in. Instead she says to Lori “Someone has slashed him apart with a knife and stole all the money” (Walls 228). The kids knew right away who had stolen it. It was Dad. When Lori confronted Dad with the news about Oz, he started playing dumb, acting like he had not idea what was going on. But in fact he did steal the money. This action shows that Dad is very selfish and only cares about himself.

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

The first home that they live in is with Jeannette’s grandmother, Erma. Jeannette describes the inside of the house, saying, “It was cold in the house, and the air smelled of mold and cigarettes and unwashed laundry” (131). In addition to the house being a tad run down, the kids were only allowed to bathe in four inches of water once a week and that they all must share. Not only did they have unfit living conditions at home, Jeannette was constantly being bullied at school and does not seem to be able fit in with all of the other kids (140), which is also making it difficult for her to concentrate on her schoolwork. The second house that the Walls family lived in is a little old rundown shack on 93 Little Hobart Street which is no better than the house they shared with Erma. In all actuality, it is probably worse since the kitchen ceiling leaks when it rains (154) and the entire area surrounding the foundation becomes a garbage dump because the family cannot afford to pay for trash pick-up (155). With their father, Rex constantly drinking and their mother, Rose Mary leaving the children to fend for themselves, Lori and Jeannette decide that, for their own good and sake of their future, they should distance themselves from the family start a new life in New

Soon after being deserted on the road, grandfather comes down with a summer grippe and becomes helpless. Mattie then needs to take care of them both by finding food and water. This shows responsibility because she not only had to take care of herself, but of her grandfather too with no help from anyone, and no one to tell her what to do.

Mattie had so many traumatizing events occur in just a few months, yet she stayed strong and fought through the pain day by day. One of these events were when she tried to leave Philadelphia. Her and her grandfather were on a cart leaving Philadelphia, When they got thrown off because they thought that Mattie’s grandpa had Yellow Fever. All of their belongings were on that cart. Now Mattie and her grandfather faced starvation in the middle of nowhere.

Mama instructed Walter to deposit three thousand for Beneatha’s medical schooling and the remaining money for the household. Walter instead made a business transaction that he believed would change his family’s life for the better, only to find out he made a grave error. Willy Harris ran off with all the money! The family is devastated and mama believe they are not able to move and decided to fix up their current home.

She opens the door to her childhood, beginning with when she was 3 years old and boiling her own hot dog by standing on top of the chair to reach the stovetop. While doing that, her pink dress catches on the fire because of which gets her horribly burned. She spends a few days in the hospitals and enjoys it too, because she is getting food on time and is not left starving. One day her dad shows up and they run off out of the hospital without paying the bills of her treatment. That night her family leaves the town and move to another place, taking as much stuff as possible with them. Most of her childhood memories involve her whole family- mom, dad, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and later on Maureen -moving from one desert towns to another, settling in as long as her dad can hold the job. This happened more frequently due to the dad’s alcoholism coupled with his paranoia about the organized society and the state. One of the towns they stayed in was Battle Mountain, Nevada, where they spend a few months. Jeanette and her brother Brian spent many hours exploring the desert and collecting rocks. Even their mother got a job as a teacher and

She had yellow fever. Mattie asked where they were and it happened to be Bush Hill. The city turned a former mansion into a hospital. It’s said to be “one step away from H*ll” as Mattie said with dead bodies and criminals everywhere. Mrs. Flagg, one of Mattie’s nurses, assured her that Bush Hill was safe now. Mattie just kept getting better and better and by 6 days she could walk. The clerk wanted to discharge Mattie to the orphanage but she had Grandfather. Mrs. Flagg told them that Philadelphia was even worse than before and they should stay inside once they get to the coffeehouse. When Mattie and Grandfather got home, they found it robbed. The house was messed up and all the food was gone. Luckily, they still had the strongbox. The two had to, again, figure out some way to survive. Then, one day, Mattie was woken up by a strange voice. It were robbers. They were looking around the house for something that could be sold for good money. One of the robbers was swinging Grandfather’s sword when it almost hit Mattie and she ducked and said “No!” reveling herself. Then Grandfather came down to confront the robbers and it turned into a huge fight. Everything happened at once. Grandfather was beaten so hard that he died. He was old

In the book The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Walls recalls her life and the significant experiences within it. She goes through the perils of being poor, not having a stable home, and having changing beliefs of the world around her. With an alcoholic and paranoid father, an irresponsible mother, and many nights with an empty stomach, Jeannette Walls grows up loving and supporting her parents as a young child only to realize the neglect that she and her siblings have gone through as she got older. The Glass Castle is a book full of life lessons, unique and baffling experiences, and eye opening scenes of the world and the many different people within it. This book shows the ups and downs of one’s life, showing dysfunction, misfortune, and how these impact someone over time.

If she could not put down a security deposit for the apartment she wanted. It would have resulted in her getting a hotel, which is ultimately more costly. She wouldn’t be able save money on food because the low price hotels do not have kitchens to cook in, and healthcare is very expensive if you cannot afford health insurance. It was clear that she need another job to make ends meet. So that is exactly what she did. She gets a second waitressing job at Jerry’s. Jerry’s is no better than Hearthside, but the pay is much better. Because of time she is scheduled to work at Jerry’s conflicts with Hearthside, so she decides to quite Hearthside. To save more money she decides to move closer to Key West. She moves into a trailer in the Overseas Trailer Park. After working for a month in waitressing she gets another job in housekeeping at a hotel. She works from 9 am to whenever she finishes her work. She only last at the hotel for one day. That afternoon she heads in to work at Jerry’s. Jerry’s begins to be too much for her. From being sleep deprived and tired she couldn’t take it any more especially when Joy starts screaming at her. She walks out of Jerry’s never looking back to return.

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,

When Kristina and Brandon got married they decided to open a CrossFit Prevail Gym in McHenry Illinois. Brandon dressed and went downstairs to eat breakfast then headed out the door to get to the gym to coach the 5am WOD class at the gym then head to his job afterward. When Brandon left it was 4:45am Kristina lied back down and fell back to sleep. When the second alarm went off at 6:45am Kristina found a little munchkin in bed with her it was Chase. He had snuck into her room to give her morning cuddles. After morning snuggles both Kristina and Chase got up and went to wake the girls for school. Running in and jumping on his sisters Chase finally awoke them and they all headed down stairs for breakfast. While all three children ate their cereal and watch cartoons. Kristina went up to take a quick shower and dress herself to take the kiddos to school. After finishing their cereal, the three children all went upstairs to get dressed. Madison the oldest dressed herself, made herself a lunch and packed her bag for school. As Madison was finishing packing her bag Makenna came down the stairs to pack her bag. After dressing Chase Kristina came down stairs to help her children. Kristina made Makenna a lunch and packed Chase a snack for preschool. “Get your shoes on” Kristina yelled as she turned off the lights and television. By the time that everyone got out of the house and into the car

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd

The family stops at a restaurant to get a bite to eat, and we find out that the two parents, Bailey and his wife, do not really care for the Grandmother. The Grandmother asks Bailey to dance, but he just declines and ignores her. Bailey’s wife does not seem to care either. They then continue on the road, and the Grandmother begins to tell the story of a house that she really enjoyed passing. She really wanted to go there, so she persuaded the children to want to go as well. After a long time of complaining, they finally convince their father to head back toward this house. They go down this road when all

When I put the shoes on and go upstairs she has her foot all wrapped up and I start cleaning, crying even harder, and apologizing while Mary calls her mom and her aunt to tell them what happened. I’m cleaning the room and I see something on the ground. It’s Mary’s toe. I tell her grandma that I think I found her toe and she picked it up and told me not to look at it. Her aunt