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"I like the world just fine the way I see it," she said. (97)
Loris asked Rosemary to try on her glasses, and when she out them on she could actually see clearly but she took them off right after. This symbolizes how she sees their family and struggles the way she wants to and now how it actually is but she likes it better that way, and will comtinue to be oblivious and positive.

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"Sometimes you have to sicker to get better" -Rosemary Walls

Rosemary says this when rex tries to become sober and she says it to comfort the kids and explaining to them that the toughest decisions are always going to be easy

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"Do you think they'll come back?" page 145-Brian. This is when Rex and Rosemary went on a trip for a while and left the kids with Erma. It is really sad that he even has to think about that. Rosemary and Rex not coming back does seem like something they would do. Even Jeanette was skeptical about the situation and she told herself that she would always keep faith in him.

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"Where are the Values I raised you with" pg 269
This quote comes in the part of the book where she is living on park avenue. I don't think her mom means living in poverty. I think she is talking about not being embarrassed by her past. She is not proud of her parents in fact it is quite the opposite. In class her professor asks her about her view on homeless people. She of course never mentions her parents and continues to be embarrassed.

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"You should not hate anybody not even your worst enemies"
I think this was said by R.M. and I really like it because I think there is a Bible verse about it. "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,"

Matthew 5:43-48

I agree with this quote because I think nowadays people use the word "Hate" WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too loosely. It's a strong word and people should not be using it so loosely

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"don't be so sentimental" This took me by surprise. After Rex tossed Quixote out of the window like a piece of trash, Jeanette the young 3 year old began to reasonably cry. Rosemary, sounding almost disappointed in Maureen, told her to stop crying. This shows Rosemary's attitude towards her children and her perspective on life. Rosemary could not bring her self to understand why a young girl would be upset that her childhood pet was discarded through a moving car window. I believe that this also somewhat representative of her selfishness, Rosemary doesn't care about the family cat and she surely doesn't care that her children were upset.

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"'Don't be so sentimental,' Mom said. She told me we could always get another cat, and now Quixote was going to be a wild cat, which was much more fun than being a house cat. Brian, afraid that Dad might toss Juju out the window as well. held the dog tight."

Mom pretends to be anti-sentimental for her kids, but realistically she doesn't care about others' feelings and doesn't want to get in a fight with Rex. She wishes she could be like Quixote and escape and be wild. It's "more fun" to her. Her kids don't agree with these views, as is shown with Brian and how he holds the dog extra tight.

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"She had to punish someone, and she didn't want to upset the other kids." -Lori (75)
Lori let herself get paddled even though she did nothing wrong so her siblings wouldn't have to get hurt. She sacrificed herself for them without hesitation. This is an example of Lori being an amazing role model and older sibling. She's always protecting them and looking out for them even in the beginning when she's still young.

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"...they say drunks didn't remember their rampages, so if you cleaned up after them, they'd think nothing happened." -Jennette
This quote is saying that Rex's alcoholism has gotten so bad that they are literally just trying to cover up his "rampages." They don't even try to help him anymore, just try to prevent him from knowing it happened because they know it hurts him to know that.

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" Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are."
You shouldn't waste time worrying about what people think about you. You shouldn't be judged for being poor or different. The kids are red headed and not like other kids. Rex and Rosemary were homeless and didn't care what other people thought.

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“Lori began to see New York as sort of Emerald City-this glowing, bustling place at the end of a long road where she could become the person she was meant to be(223)”. It is an allusion to the Wizard of Oz. New York is her Emerald City or the promised land almost or the place everyone talks about all the time. She is currently taking the long and hard path to get there like Dorthy takes the long and treacherous path to get to the Wizard of Oz. Also in that part she names the piggy bank Oz so the piggy bank is what is used to help her get to New York.

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" My secret would be out" (p.3)
This is when she was in NYC and was ready to start her own life. She thought to do this and be the most happy and successful she didn't want anyone to know where she came from. This was her big secret for most of her time when she was in NYC. She was embarrassed by her parents. She thought she had her whole life figured out but later realized that where she came from was a huge part of her and she can't change that. Her secret didn't need to be kept because those are her parents and makes up who she is.

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“I swore to myself that I would never be like mom, that I would not be crying my eyes out in an unheated shack in some godforsaken holler.”
Jeannette says this to herself in the middle of the Welch chapter when things are at their worse. This is proove in context that she directly states that growing up the way she did empowered her to be successful. This is proof of this and even proposes that if she didn’t grow up the environment that she did she wouldn’t have ended up the same way she did. In my opinion, if she grew up in a similar way but her parents acted better, she still would have ended up successful later in life.

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The noise was thunderous, but after we’d been there a while, we didn’t even hear it. Page 57
This is the part of the story when they are living in the old train depot. Jeannette is talking about the trains going by but I think it applies to the whole book. In every part you can see how the Walls children got use to each obstacle they faced. They got used to being hungry and learned how to scavenge. When they were in Welch they got used to being cold and learned to hunt for sticks to keep the fire going, and how to collect fallen coal, and how to use kerosene to keep a small fire. Essentially every obstacle slowly faded to the back of their mind as it, like the trains going by, became the norm for them.

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"Mom and Dad called regularly from pay phones to check up on us, and once or twice a month, we'd all get together at Lori's" (pg. 255)

0This quote shows that while the parents are still homeless, they still care and misses them. Having hardly any money they waste there money just to check if they were ok.

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“These cities will kill you” - Rex Page 32

This quotes was said by Rex Walls. In the beginning of the book Rex had a very strong hatred for cities because I always felt like he was jealous of most of the people who lived in the cities. When his children started moving there I feel like he had to start liking it and had no choice. By the end of the book he was living in New York.

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"I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes (34)."
I think that this is a very good representation of J's early life. She lived a life that at any point could go very badly. She always had to be aware at every moment if anything went wrong, even when she was very little. The fact that she always knew that this sort of thing would happen kept her alert and aware of her situation. This quote was also towards the start of the book, when the hotel that they were staying in caught on fire. It is both a symbolic and very literal quote.

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pg.113 "Brian said ,he took the bottle Dad had been drinking emptied it, and hid it in the trunk. He'd wait until he had ten or twelve, then tote them to a garbage can a few blocks away, because of Dad saw the empty bottles, he would get furious." The family is in the desert still and Brian and Jeannette are trying to help their father. They try to get rid of the bottles he keeps and holds onto in his drunken slumber. Especailly Brian he really doesn't like how his father drinks a lot. He does his best to get rid of all of the alchohol he can.

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"I am your mother, and I should have a say in how you're raised." (pg.12)

This idea will come up later, when Jeannette accuses Mom of not acting like a mother. Mom doesn't have any desire to raise her own kids—she lets Jeannette cook at three years old, she also is irresponsible and her kids have to help her with work. By grading her students papers for her when she should be doing it her self but she never.