At age 12, Jeannette starts realizing her father is dragging everyone down with him and tells her mother: “‘Mom, you have to leave dad,’ I said” (Walls 188). Jeannette finally realizes that the reason why they were always constantly moving and never have enough food on the table because her father was spending the money on alcohol. She wants her mother to leave him because she believes they could live a better lifestyle without him dragging them down. Jeannette sees that he is only hurting his family not helping it. She is losing faith in her father to make better decisions in life. Even know she loves her father, she just wants a change for once in her
