Jeannette Walls Book Report

Jeannette Walls is a little girl at the age of six living in a car traveling a lot because her parents' her dad a scammer and her mother a follower and an artist. In the early mid 70s Jeannette is young traveling through the desert of Arizona and Nevada region. In the desert stays at a 70 degree temperature. Jeannette at six has a small figure, scrawny legs and arms. She has long brown hair. With Jeannette being so young in the book she's dependent on how her parents build her character as she grows older, and where she explores the world. Jeannette Walls is six years old when her book starts out, and her brain maturity has been already in her teens, she's told to cook for herself and care for herself. When her little sister was or her mother hands her off to Jeannette in all of the book traveling periods. Jeannette only has one family and is too young to understand the majority of the actions her parents take are dangerous and small minded. Having nowhere else to go even though Jeanette never says she wants to leave her family, she has no choice to stay with them because she may not know how to live on her own at six years old. An example of her parents behavior that scares Jeanette is when she was young, she was cooking hot dogs alone in the kitchen standing on a chair she caught herself on fire and it took her mom a few moments to realise

Jeanette grows up living and being pushed around by her parents. Understanding her perspective of her childhood helps us compare that not all children are raised the same. She grew up poor and on the run from whatever trouble her dad got them into. She did not grow up rich or middle class. The lesson taken away from their story if that not all parents' methods of raising their children are easy or reasonable, but not know the do's and don'ts on the wrong and rights or feeding