Jennet Wall’s was abused by people around her and her own family, she had many negative experiences and they were most affected by the places she lived in. Throughout her life there has been events that normal people can’t comprehend to be true, yet it started off when she was only three.
Where she lived first and the first memory she could remember was in Arizona in an old trailer park. “I was on fire. It’s my earliest memory. I was three years old and we were living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town whose name I never knew. I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me.” (Page 9 First Paragraph) This is one of the quotes in the story that breaks the ice for the reader and shows also her development as an outsider. Jen does a very good job of explaining about how her actions affect different members in her family and others around her. This affects the places she lived in by showing how irresponsible her parents were. The actions taking place while she was on fire showed that her parents did not really pay too much attention to what their kids were doing. This …show more content…
Her parents became homeless and money was slim. So to turn her life around and make things for the best she got a job. May of been something good for her but moving to New York was the end of all good things. Her father dying may have been the most important outcome in the book because of the relief that Janet had to know that her father who in my opinion was complete idiot. Had finally gone to another place and Jen could feel safe from his clutches. Getting the job was the first bite into the big apple she was devouring at, waiting to get to the core which was her parents becoming homeless and her father dying. Showing lastly that she was not only abused by people her own family, but her environment now unfortunately if she were to not move to New York most likely these events were not to be
Where she lived first and the first memory she could remember was in Arizona in an old trailer park. “I was on fire. It’s my earliest memory. I was three years old and we were living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town whose name I never knew. I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me.” (Page 9 First Paragraph) This is one of the quotes in the story that breaks the ice for the reader and shows also her development as an outsider. Jen does a very good job of explaining about how her actions affect different members in her family and others around her. This affects the places she lived in by showing how irresponsible her parents were. The actions taking place while she was on fire showed that her parents did not really pay too much attention to what their kids were doing. This …show more content…
Her parents became homeless and money was slim. So to turn her life around and make things for the best she got a job. May of been something good for her but moving to New York was the end of all good things. Her father dying may have been the most important outcome in the book because of the relief that Janet had to know that her father who in my opinion was complete idiot. Had finally gone to another place and Jen could feel safe from his clutches. Getting the job was the first bite into the big apple she was devouring at, waiting to get to the core which was her parents becoming homeless and her father dying. Showing lastly that she was not only abused by people her own family, but her environment now unfortunately if she were to not move to New York most likely these events were not to be