Sensory details emphasized that Eleanor Roosevelt had a truly cold childhood. More specifically, “Orphans now, Eleanor and her brother, Hall, continued to live with their grandmother and her own unruly brood of eccentric sons and daughters.” (15) This illustrates not only how much loss Eleanor experienced in her youth, but also what she had to deal with as a result of her losses. For instance, after both of Eleanor’s parents passed, she had to complete a great deal of tasks that most children would have cringed at, such as caring for her “brood of unruly brothers” as well as herself. They are portrayed as a wild and crazy bunch of boys whose scolding towards was necessary to keep them in check, but she also had to understand their losses, identical
