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QUOTE: "No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics."

EXPLAINATION:
This quote is said by Rose Mary explains that even though they didn't give them the best of things, a nice place to live, or put them first but both Rose Mary and Rex loved their children throughout it all even when they all left them. This love is shown in the photo below.

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QUOTE: "I was going to turn six in a few months, and Mom said I was mature enough to hold the baby the entire way home"

EXPLANATION:  Here, Jeannette's holding the kids and taking caring of them, and she's not even six years old yet. This foreshows Jeannette growing up and taking on the mother-figure for the younger kids. This relates to the photo below by how the young kid has to take on the adult job.

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QUOTE: "At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn’t keeping my promise that I’d protect her–the promise I’d made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she’d been born. I couldn’t get her what she needed most–hot baths, a warm bed, steaming bowls of Cream of Wheat before school in the morning–but I tried to do little things."

EXPLANATION: This is a quote said by Jeannette explaining how she felt like she was failing maureen in a way of trying to give her a better childhood then she had. She feels that she is broking her promise to Maureen. She doesn't like this because she knows what a broken promise feels. Jeannette's experience with wasn't good with Rex who was promising to be there for her but never was. The photo below shows how Jeannette is with Rex.

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QUOTE: "She was keeping [the wedding ring], she explained, to replace the wedding ring her mother had given her, the one Dad had pawned shortly after they got married.
“But Mom,” I said, “that ring could get us a lot of food.”
“That’s true,” Mom said, “but it could also improve my self-esteem. And at times like these, self-esteem is even more vital than food.”

EXPLANATION: Even during their hardest times, Rex and Rose Mary refuse to become charity cases, they don't even accept help from their children in their late adulthood. The value of being self sufficient descends from Rose Mary, whose upbringing in a disciplined home leads her to trash the rules when she becomes a mother. But throughout the time the children are at home, she put herself first before anyone else even though she said later in life that she was always taking care of the children. The photo relates to the how Rose Mary puts herself first in front of her own children.

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QUOTE: “I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't afford expensive presents and they didn't want us to think we weren't as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all sorts of fancy toys under the tree that were supposedly left by Santa Claus.
Dad had lost his job at the gypsum, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took each one of us kids out into the desert night one by one.
"Pick out your favorite star", Dad said.
"I like that one!" I said.
Dad grinned, "that's Venus", he said. He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was constant and stars twinkled because their light pulsed.
"I like it anyway" I said.
"What the hell," Dad said. "It's Christmas. You can have a planet if you want."
And he gave me Venus.
Venus didn't have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth's, except it was super hot-about 500 degrees or more. "So," Dad said, "when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone might want to move to Venus to get warm. And they'll have to get permission from your descendants first.
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. "Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.”

EXPLANATION: This passage is from a conversation between Jeannette and Rex. Because the family didn’t have a lot of money they couldn’t give the kids Christmas gifts, so one year Rex gives the kids stars for presents. Jeannette was given Venus. Even though she was a kid, she believed that Venus was hers living in the fantasy that her life was fine the way it was not facing the reality that their lifestyle was not normal and not good for the kids. The photo below shows the scene with Jeannette and Rex showing her little kid fantasy.

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QUOTE: "Where are we going, Dad?" I asked.

"Wherever we end up," he said.

EXPLANATION: This quote said by Rex explains how the family was moving place to place. By not being in school a lot and from moving town to town, leaves the kids to grow up with no order and schedule. When growing up kids need order instead of chaos, which was unfortunately not in the lives of the Walls kids. This is reflected in the messy desk photo below.