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Coming of age can leave cold feelings towards role models of one's youth. 

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Coming of age can leave cold feelings towards role models of one's youth. 

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During most of Jeannette's life she has seen her parents struggle to feed and clothe their children as a result of poor budgeting and low income. When her mother leaves her and her siblings with two hundred dollars for the summer Jeannette is able to create and stick to a budget with relative ease until her father approaches her for beer money and realizes "That was two days' worth of food. A half gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs, two cans of jack mackerel, a small bag of apples, and some popcorn. And Dad wasn't even doing me the honor of pretending he needed the money for something useful." At this point she loses more respect for her father because of his inability to put his family before his vices. I chose a picture of Chris McCandless in front of the bus he lived in to represent this theme because the driving force of his journey to Alaska was his childhood full of conflict between his parents and losing respect for his father when he learned he had another family.

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Throughout the early part of the book that takes place during Jeannette's young childhood her parents act like life a such a fun adventure and that not having food or a good place to live is part of the fun. They do this to disguise the fact that they cannot provide adequately for their children. This is shown when Jeannette says "We were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure. " I think that this theme can be represented by Plato's cave in which captives are shown shadows depicting the outside world but are confined to a cave and what they see is subject to the control of the man running the cave.

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Unconditional love can lead to danger and disappointment. 

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Unconditional love can lead to danger and disappointment. 

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Jeannette's abundant trust and love for her father leads her into danger by having her seduce Robbie in order for Rex to scam him in pool. In the car on their way home from the bar Jeannette tells Rex what happened and he merely says"I'm sure he just pawed you some, I knew you could handle yourself." and compares the experience to when he taught Jeannette to swim in the sulfur spring. The picture of people being lead off a cliff relates to the theme by showing that trust can be misplaced and dangerous.

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Acceptance of a situation can stop someone from making that situation better. By coming to terms with a way of living they will not be inclined to improve it. This is seen in the way Rose Mary maintains her living places, from the train depot in the desert to the shack on Little Hobart street, the squat in New York and finally the cottage on Jeannette's land she lives in a state of squalor that she seems to have no problems with. Any other person would be revolted by these conditions and have motivation to make them better. I feel the photo I used shows, to a lesser degree, the kind of conditions Rose Mary seems to have no problems with.

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Adaptation makes harsh conditions livable. 

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Adaptation makes harsh conditions livable. 

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Rex's nickname for Jeannette is mountain goat,"He called me that because I never fell down when we were climbing mountains—surefooted as a mountain goat, he'd always say.". This nickname alludes to the adaptations mountain goats have which allow them to live high on cliffs where little else survives.

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With strength bad circumstances can be overcome. 

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With strength bad circumstances can be overcome. 

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Jeannette says in part one "it was practically the only time I had seen Brian cry" when their dog dies from a snakebite. Brian's strength continues to define his character in the rest of the book. The picture of Bruce Willis walking on broken glass in Die Hard relates to the theme of strong because he is facing pain to do what is best for his wife and children.