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" We're not poor."
Page 121

When Jeannette asks her father for her birthday gift she follows it up by asking him if they’re poor. He says they’re not and that by him saying this, it shows that he refuses to admit his financial instability and by doing so it shows that he is determined to rely on himself for his family’s survival. He wants his family to be self sufficient and unreliant on anything or anyone but him.

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"I was hungry"
Page 69

With those three words all hell broke loose in the Walls house. By Jeanette yelling at her mother her mother then finally broke down and cried at how her life is. She later fought with Rex about this and their debt. Those three words started a fight between Jeanettes parents. She started to think with her head not her heart.

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"The next time they visited, Brian's head was wrapped in a dirty white bandage with dried bloodstains. Mom said he had fallen off the back of the couch and cracked his head open on the floor, but she and dad had decided not to take him to the hospital."
Page 13

Instead of taking Brian to the hospital like most parents would, Brian's parents choose to bandage him up himself and imply to him in this way to "suck it up and rub some dirt in it".  This shows that the both of those parents are not like most parents and will always choose to do things their own way. They always wanted to raise their kids their way not everyone else way.

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Once she fantasized that she could live her life like in the absurd hospital when in reality her life is bad and her parents are so bad to her that she believes the hospital is better than living with them and their horrible parenting skills. "One of the told me it was going to be okay, i said " i know, but if I'm not, thats' okay too"" pg 10

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"dad accused Lori of stealing his children and declared he was disowning her" pg 251

Loris dad disowned her after all of jennets siblings went to New York to live with her. However Rex later in the book goes to New York to live with them which would mean he had to have forgiven her in order to live in the same house as Lori.

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"Billy's ring looked like one of Mom's. I ran it across my teeth and tongue like Mom had taught me to. I could tell by the slightly bitter taste that it was real silver " pg 84

Just as any ring that is made of gold or silver , the realness of their metals show that there is a very passionate love that will always be real. Just how Billy tried to propose his unconditional undying love to Jeanette with it.