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In order for Jeannette and her siblings to survive they had to search for food in trash to "fuel the machine." Also, they had to keep eachother close to defend from their parents.

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Jeannette and her siblings have been neglected by their parents throughout their entire childhood. For Example, when Jeannette was groped by Uncle Stanley and when Brian was harassed by Erma. Rose Mary shows hypocrisy by saying "chewing gum is low class and tacky" knowing she is below the lower class.

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Throughout the story, Rex and Rose Mary never watched over their children. Their greed and delusion only made them go after their self interests. When Jeanette's mom says "That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop." It proves how they had to act like adults and were missing the proper love a kid needs.

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Jeannette and her siblings knew that they didn't want to be nothing like their parents. They were determined to chase their dreams and wanted a much better life. Each sibling manages to create a good and stable living by themselves. At the end of the book Brian says "It was never so hard to put food on the table." It shows how they managed to be better than their parents through the difficulties they faced.

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Egoistic behavior reeked from Jeannette's parents, especially from Rose Mary. She thought only about herself and her art with no care about her children. She try to justify not feeding her kids in order to finish her drawings. In her reasoning she stated "Why spend the afternoon making a meal will be gone in an hour, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?"

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Jeannette and her siblings faced their reality early on in their life. They wanted to convince themselves that their parents were good people until they became more selfish progressing into the story. As adults, they accepted that their parents would always be the freeloaders they were raised with. They knew that they will never apologize for their cruel actions. “Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are“