Within the given passage, the Walls family moves into a new house that is a piece of junk. The author of this text, Jeannette Walls, conveys the idea that even though their father is drunk all the time, and their mother is too positive, it helps them cope with what they are going through, like moving into their new house on Little Hobart Street. Through diction, Walls shows that the family’s positive thinking and dreams get them through these rough times.
Jeannette knows that the house isn’t in the best shape, but the family still finds light in it. One example that demonstrates how bad the house is, “The houses up here were shabbier than the brick houses lower down in the valley” (Walls 150). Jeannette sees how absolutely cruddy the houses