August 7, 2014
#4
Whenever the Walls family moved to
Little Hobart Street they had many struggles and quickly descended into
impoverished living conditions.
Jeannette had to cope with many deficiencies living here, and one
specific example was when the Walls family was living with hunger. In order for Jeannette to satisfy her hunger
she would stay in the bathroom during lunch and would wait for someone to throw
away anything they didn’t eat. Jeannette
always thought it was wrong that kids would waste food like this, so she was
glad to not let it go to waste.
Jeannette and her siblings tolerate
abuse very well. Their way of tolerating
with it is not talking about it. They
try to just let it go, because they feel like there is nothing they can do
about it. The kids were taught to be
polite and mature so they think they shouldn’t say anything and leave it
alone. I do sympathize for Jeannette’s situation;
I wouldn’t know how to handle it correctly.
It is extremely hard for Jeannette to corporate and even talk to her
parents. Her parents seem to not care
about their children to a certain extent; and that’s incredibly hard for the
kids to live with. Jeannette has been
taught to believe that her parents actions are okay and normal, but as she
grows and learns she realizes that her father has a serious drinking problem
and her mother is very lazy, since she has a teaching degree but is not working
at all, causing them to live in extreme poverty.
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