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Introduction
Page 3-5
In these 3 pages i have met the main character, Jeanette. I find that she is a middle-high class woman, married living in new york. I already found that her parents are living homeless. She had tried to help them in the past but they refuse to take it, her parents explain that "They said that they were living the way that they want to". I predict this will be a great book, the introduction really made me curious and want to continue reading. -
Stop Drop and Roll
page 9-11
This was when Jeanette tells about her first childhood memory. Her memory is cooking hotdogs at the age of 3 when her dress caught on fire. She was rushed to the hospital and had to get skin graphs. She was then questioned by the nurses if her parents harm her. -
Running From the PoPo
This is when we find out that the reason this family moves around a lot is because there are people after them. "...FBI Agenrs who were after Dad for some dark episode that he never told us about because he didn't want to put us in danger, too." This makes the reader curious towards what he did, and if this is true. Page 19 -
Burn Baby Burn
Jeanette found a box of matches and began lighting toilette paper in the hotel room they were living in. She fell asleep and woke up to curtains ablaze. Page 33 -
Another kid?
On this page we find out that Jeanette's mother, Rose Mary walls, is pregnant. Page 38 -
Run Mary, run.
Rex and rose mary (jeanette's parents) get in a fight, she is 14 months pregnant but rex is drunk and makes rude comments about how late the baby is. Rosemary runs away and rex chases her with the car. He catches her and drags her back into the vehicle. This is important because it shows his abusive alcoholic side
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Congrats, it's a girl!
Little baby maureen is born. Page 46 -
*grrrrrrrrrr* sorry that was my stomach.
Jeanette explains her experience about when the family went hungry. The kids would scavenge for food, stealing it from class mates, neighbours and friends. It shows how irresponsible their parents are. Page 67-69 -
Battle Mountain intermediate school
Rose mary gets a job as a teacher at Battle Mountain intermediate school since she has her teaching degree. The students loved her because she was kind and encouraged them with everything they do. But, she has lack of discipline and let's the kids do what they want. Page 73 -
uh oh the po po.. Again.
Billy Deel has been harassing jeanette to be his girlfriend for sometime. He gives her a really pretty ring, and thinks her accepting it means they're together. When they play hide and seek, Billy uses this time to get close to her. He ends up forcing her to kiss him and put her hands in her pants. She eventually gets away. The next day she returns the ring and he shouts that he raped her. The next day he comes with a bb gun and startes shooting them. Lori scares him away with Rex's pistol. -
Arizona Stories.
We find out the neighbourhood and house the walls family lives in isn't very safe. Their house is infested with roaches and termites. Their neighbourhood is filled with stealing gypsies and pedofiles that follow the kids to and from school. -
Come play with me,
Rex and rose mary insist on keeping the doors open to help air circulate throughout the house. But one nigh, one of the perverted pedofiles come in and molest jeanette, brian comes in and saves her and he runs away. Rex and Brian go on a hunt for the perverted man but don't end up finding him. The kids ask that they star keeping the door closed so it doesn't happen again but Rex and Rose are so insitant that fresh air is more important. I found this very shocking.. -
"Justifiable Pilfering"
Rose Mary involves the kids in shoplifting, they would distract the store clerk and Rose would hide the dress under her raincoat. On this page rose and Rex do more stealing at the local bank, rex would withdraw money from the teller and at the same time rose would withdraw from the drive through.
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