The novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff shows how parent-child relationships can be a struggle when the mother is only seventeen, and has two kids and no father in the picture. This a story based on the life of a fourteen year old high school student named Lavaughn looking for a job. Lavaughn finds a flyer of someone in need of a babysitter bad and decides to try it out. In the beginning of the novel, Lavaughn says “ I go to meet this Jolly like she says at her place. The building was broken down, it was even worse than the place we lived.” This shows that the author is trying to portray a visual image of how atrocious the living conditions are not only for Jolly but also Lavaughn. The words “broken down” and “worse than we lived”
