Larry Walls Analysis

Having the feeling of a secure and normal life was more important to the Walls children, rather than having the freedom they were all so accustomed to. The children of the Walls were often faced with many challenges. The family struggled mostly financially, from their parents not acquiring a stable job and income. Most of the time, they could not even afford food to feed the children. Lori Walls, the eldest of the Walls’ children, had always seem to make security more of an important need for herself by the time she was older. Primarily, as the reader reads more into this fascinating book, they learn that Lori wants to move New York City in hopes of moving to a better life environment, where she can strive in what she loves to do, which was

On page 23 it states, “But Lori began to see New York as a sort of Emerald City-this glowing, bustling place at the end of a long road where she would become the person she was meant to be.” This illustrates upon the idea of New York becoming a place of security for Lori because she knew she could prosper there and it could become something that she would really enjoy and something different than from what she is used. This further plots the idea of security being more important than freedom to the Walls children because they would rather would move away from the chances of maintaining their freedom than having no security of a normal life at all. New York, in a way, was Lori’s security of a normal life and she chose that over whatever freedom she had back in the past. Lori speaks out for the necessity of security that was needed in the family, for she went out and found her own nous of security. This proving overall that Lori thought having a sense of security of a normal life was more

They have shown most of this prosperity of security within their experience in New York. Primarily, Lori wants to move New York City in hopes of moving to a better life environment, where she can strive in what she loves to do, which was art. Later, her sister, Jeanette, follows her into the City and while she is in New York City, she earns job, and that shows a bit of security of living a normal life, something she did not feel when she was growing up. Lastly, by the end of the book, Lori, Jeanette, and Brian lived in homes that contained proper living supplies and furniture that her parents struggled to provide while looking for houses for them to live in. They prospered and lived in someplace where they believed they could make it. Though many may argue that Jeanette herself at some point, thought freedom was more important than security and enjoyed the freedom she had a lot, but her opinion changed as she grew older. She learned of responsibilities and the hardships of her family’s so called ‘freedom’. After long years of being free, it made the children more responsible and crave more security. They have earned it themselves and now it is important to them. Security has definitely built on them and they have made it one of their