She is admitted to hospital and the nurses seem to love her. Jeannette is really amused by getting frequent meals and a gum from one of the nurses. Her father couldn’t leave with her being away from home. From their on we are
Jeannette 's relationship with her siblings is a kind and close relationship. For example, when they lived in Phoenix she was always did everything with Brain. While with lori they were sort of distant from each other, but after Lori got her glasses they seemed to do a lot of things together. Also, when they were in Welch they played in the forest toghther and help when they needed it. This is seen when Lori starts to plan to go to new york, and they all start to save up so she can go.
Even still, when their parents and their living situation becomes too much to bear, she and her sister Lori decide that they must get out, and find New York City to be the ideal location. In the end, Jeannette accepts
Because of growing up observing her mother go through all of the troubles she experienced in Manzanar and how she got over them with dignity, Jeanne is a very emotionally strong and confident person by the end of her
She attends Bernard, lives in her own apartment and makes her own money, and eventually makes her own friends and relationships. But one major character change in Jeannette at this point of the book is how she speaks about her parents and how she looks back on her life before. When she attended parties she mainly tried to avoid the mention of her parents but when she couldn't avoid it anymore she often would lie about where they were living and what they were doing. (INSERT QUOTE HERE) I believe she did this because now that she had her fresh start she wanted to make it seem like that's how she always lived even though it was all a lie.
Not being to conform to society her parents are homeless once again. Jeannette’s dad Rex has a heart attack and dies. She was devastated her his death, but in the end her family was relieved he was
Jeannette explains how she disagrees with Erma’s point of view on African Americans after she made offensive comments, by which her mother explains to her that her grandmother went through a rough childhood and that it was all she knew, adding “Everyone has something good about them, you have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that” (114). This shows how even after such an incident, she still somehow finds a way to see the good in Erma. Jeannette’s mom shows a side of her described by Jeannette herself where she is continuously selfish many times in the book, thinking only of herself before anyone else, including her own kids, specifically when it comes to feeding Jeannette, Lori and Brian. An example of this would be when they were all sitting in the living room when Jeannette’s father wasn’t home and Jeannette found herself and her siblings starving with no food in the house, while Rose was secretly eating a bag of chocolates under her blanket in order for her kids to not see her and have to share her chocolates with
For the first time, this made her mother angry. She replied by saying that she simply just can’t leave him because that was her husband, and she needed to be there for him. At that moment, Jeannette realized that for a change to happen, she must do it on her own. When she was the only one home, a child welfare officer went to their home and asked Jeannette where her parents are. She told him that they weren’t there, and he asked other questions about her and her family.
She loved her parents but hated the things they did. When Jeannette was a child, never understood her parents behavior. As a teenger sher just dealt with it still not completely understanding her parents. Jeannette tells multiple reasons why the relationship between her mother and father was so complex.
Jeannette throughout the book faces hardships that some will never experience, such as, challenging her school system, going against her own thoughts, and placing herself in others shoes. Throughout
(115-116). This sedate tone is a clear craft move by the author. She specifically makes Jeannie seem resigned and about to give up. Denials of small, everyday, opportunities like this can have a damaging impact on one’s mental health and can create an inferiority complex. For example, Jeanne starts blaming herself and her race for everything that happens to her.
As Jeannette matures her connection with her parents, particularly her father begins to diminish. Jeannette didn’t grasp that the way her parents raised them or viewed the world wasn’t normal and as she got older she recognized how selfish her parents were. Jeannette was constantly close with her father, and always showed compassion for him, but when they relocated to Welch it appeared as if her father had changed. Jeannette eventually obtained work and began to save up money so she and her siblings could survive, but her father didn’t approve and eventually sabotaged that plan. Eventually, Rex went to Jeannette and requested money from her, he did promise to pay her back.
“I told him I that I would never lose trust in him, and I promised myself I never would”(76). At this point in the story, Jeannette is the only one who seems to still believe in her father. She looks up to him with a child’s eyes and always wants to be there for him. After failing her everyday, having faith in her father begins to be a struggle for Jeanette, and her tone changes. “If Francie saw the good in her father, maybe I was not a complete fool for believing in mine, or trying to believe in him.
Jeannette’s poor situation growing up causes her to have greater ambition and become successful, despite her circumstances. Jeannette not being able to
She struggled with how the society and her family shaped who she was. She was exposed to her family first which made her behave the way she did under her family’s house. Jeanette struggled with her family by taking care of the house, beings told bending the rules is okay and the acceptance of her Mom’s and Dad’s homelessness. When Jeannette left her family and went to live in New York, she becomes an individual. She fends for herself and gets her life together.
