The Secrets Of Molly's Life

Maureen also creates a dream of her own, and wants nothing more than to go back to California. Though Maureen was young when her and her family lived in California, this is the only place that she wanted to go. Jeannette and Lori tell Maureen of the great times that they had in California and explain to Maureen that she has such blonde hair because of all the gold in California, and blue eyes because of the ocean. Maureen responds, “’[California] is where I’m going to live when I grow up’” explains Walls (207). The stories that Jeannette and Lori tell are responsible for Maureen’s dream to go back to California. However, it seems that Maureen takes after her parents, and struggles to fulfill her dream. While Lori, Jeannette, and Brian go off and start their new lives, Maureen is stuck back in Welch. Lori and Jeannette decide that Maureen should move to New York with them, so they make arrangements and Maureen goes to live with Lori, and begins going to college. Things are going great up until Rex and Mary move to New York. It is at this time that Maureen seems to give up on her schooling. After Lori kicks her out, Maureen spends her days living with Rex and Mary in a squatter apartment. She wastes her days away by smoking cigarettes, reading, painting, and sometimes just sleeping away the day. Jeannette tries to help Maureen by talking to

Jeannette Walls has always been moving from place to place. Her father, Rex Walls, is a raging alcoholic who is constantly running from the police in order to keep his kids. They have lived in houses, their van, even outside. Imagine sleeping outside because the police are looking for the children of the parents who haven’t paid a

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.

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline weaves a strong friendship between two characters, Vivian and Molly, despite a lengthy list of differences. The most blatant contrast, and the root cause of many other differences, is age and the separate eras both Vivian and Molly grow up in. In the span of her life, Vivian Nielsen, a ninety-one year old widow, experiences the Great Depression, World War II, and a technology boom impossible to keep up with. On the other hand, Molly Ayer is a sixteen year old tech-savvy foster child who uses “her Goth persona like armor” against an unsympathetic society (Kline 4). Another dissimilarity is ethnicity. Vivian is a first generation Irish immigrant and in being a Penobscot Native American Indian, Molly is unable to be more different than Vivian. While these differences seem apparent, the

Her adjustment is impaired, which leads to violence directed at others. Maureen stabs her mother and spends a year incarcerated and institutionalized.

Ellen finds a woman at church that takes in orphan girls, but will there be any room for her? Will it just end up being another misunderstanding, like with her aunt, who was under the assumption that she would just be visiting for a few days. It is Ellen’s determination which eventually lands her a place in a loving home, with loving companionship.

The summary of the story is a memoir, which is about Jeannette and her family who are constantly low on food and money, family moving around the country a lot, and having a hard time to re-settle. The family is very dysfunctional with a multiple of stories to tell. The book is filled with much different kind of experiences that the family including Jeannette has been through together.

Jeanette Walls and her out of the ordinary family live their lives surrounded in pure craziness and poverty. Jeanette has been raised to be as independent as her age allows her. At age three she could make herself a hot dog and by the age of eighteen she had started a new life in New York away from the craziness that followed her parents throughout the kids nomadic childhood. Jeanette and her siblings Lori, Brian and Maureen live their childhoods with almost nothing. They were always wondering where their next meal would come from and where there parents had mysteriously disappeared to. Rex Walls, the father and husband was a severe alcoholic who spent most of his money on gambling or a beer from a local bar. Rose Mary Walls, the mother and wife was not better, never being to hold onto a job for long enough to get paid and support her family caused many problems for Rose Mary, Rex and most importantly… the kids. The kids all had the dream of escaping the prison their parents called home and heading to New York or California where they could feel endless happiness. The kids grow up with almost no parents, which forces them to become independent from the day they were born. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeanette's parents teach her to only rely on herself and never get attached to something you can lose, forcing Jeanette to become strong and independent throughout her childhood.

On October 13, 1754, Mary, Ludwig was born near Trenton, New Jersey. She married William Hays, a local barber, shortly after she moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania on July 24,1768. She was later known as Molly Pitcher when she carried pitchers of water to the men in battle in the battle of Monmouth. She helped all of these men in many different ways. She provided medical care for them when needed, she made sure they were never dehydrated, and she always gave anyone a hand who needed it. She remained with them until April of 1783, when she went back to Carlisle with Hays. A few years after her husband's death she married John McCauley, a war veteran. She worked in the state house in Carlisle and was honored by the legislature for her wartime services

Jeannette’s parents tried to embrace in their children, to live life to its extent. As you can imagine, the parents lived mostly on the wild side. Rose Mary, a drug addicts who worries about herself constantly. She endlessly searches through garbage and panhandles for money, usually forgetting everything that is occurring at the exact moment. If

The hurricane in Florida had cause Miranda and her mom to move to St.Yvette with Miranda’s aunt and the grandfather she never knew. Going to school the following day Miranda gets paired up with five other people to do a project. The group she is put into is the first people she met when she got to school. Getting upset she realize that they are so different from her group of friends back when she was in Florida. In the end she they all become best friends.

The mother/daughter relationship between Mrs. MacTeer and her two daughters, Claudia and Frieda, is loving and strong. They are taught their own self-worth through their mother’s strength and example, although this love isn’t fully appreciated by the girls until they are older. During Claudia’s illness, she is treated with a mixture of concern and anger. Although Claudia is scolded and her mother complains of cleaning her vomit, at the same time her mother is nursing her, giving her medicine, and checking on her throughout the night. Claudia discovers later that her mother’s anger is not directed at her, but at the world, as she must raise her black family in a world ruled by white culture. She protects her children and equips them for survival in a hostile environment.

Cora Lee had many children. As a child she was obsessed with baby dolls. Every Christmas she would get a new baby doll. Until she was 13, when her father said she was too old. Beginning in her sophomore year of high school, she started having babies one after another. Cora Lee neglects her children as they get older since she can only take care of them while they’re babies. Kiswana catches one of Cora Lee’s children eating out of a trash can and takes him to his mom to tell on him. Kiswana then see how filthy Cora Lee’s apartment is. Kiswana offers her to come and bring the children to a play. So Cora Lee cleans her children up and they all go to the play with Kiswana. Cora Lee is touched by seeing how much her children enjoyed the play and from that day to vowed to be a better mother.

Riley’s family move from Minnesota to California. With the difficulty of moving homes, the emotions go into panic mode, like any normal pre-teen would react, but Joy recognizes the problem and tries to help keep the situation positive. On the trip to Riley’s new house, the emotions share the possibilities of what their new house could look like. The creativity that the emotions contain depict houses with slides, dragons, candy, and even in a tree. When she arrives at a new house all the emotions are quickly disappointed by the exterior of Riley’s new home. Joy then remembers that Riley’s dad was talking about how great Riley’s room was going to be. Again, Riley is disappointed and Joy is pushed off the control board by Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear to create memory balls. Joy tries to influence the emotions by creating a dream room for Riley. As Riley heads downstairs for her stuff from a moving van, she discovers that they van is delayed for a couple of days. Bad situations seem to keep piling up for Riley’s family and when Riley realizes this, she begins to play hockey with a piece of paper to take her parents out of their mood. Her dad gets a phone call from his job and the mood goes down again. Her mom seems sad and Riley suggest pizza from a place she saw down the street. The pizza is a disappointment, it has broccoli on it. Riley can’t seem to get out of her rut. When night comes, she overhears her dad still upset on his phone and asks to be tucked in. Her mom comes into her room and right before Riley was about to get mad, her mom thanks her for her positive attitude in

She looks forward to moving away like others in her town. She admits she will not be missed at her job and at nineteen, without the former protection of her older brothers, she is beginning to feel "herself in danger of her father's violence.” This danger she sees is taken away when she meets her suitor, the sailor, Frank who promises her a better life away from these hardships she has faced.