She begins to describe her emotions and experiences using words of negativity. “We fought a lot in Welch… maybe it was because life there was hard and it made people hard…maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods. “(164). This gloomy description of Welch, helps the reader understand adversity that engulfed the town and how this affected Jeanette and her attitude towards it. As the challenges of the Wall’s family accumulates, Jeanette finally decides that she must leave Welch to be successful. “I was going to get out of Welch…. People got stuck in Welch. I had been counting on Mom and Dad to get us out, but I now knew I had to do it on my own”(221). The word “stuck” has the connotations of difficulty and adversity. In these lines, Jeanette realizes the emptiness of Welch and struggles that will continue to drown her if she
She begins to describe her emotions and experiences using words of negativity. “We fought a lot in Welch… maybe it was because life there was hard and it made people hard…maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods. “(164). This gloomy description of Welch, helps the reader understand adversity that engulfed the town and how this affected Jeanette and her attitude towards it. As the challenges of the Wall’s family accumulates, Jeanette finally decides that she must leave Welch to be successful. “I was going to get out of Welch…. People got stuck in Welch. I had been counting on Mom and Dad to get us out, but I now knew I had to do it on my own”(221). The word “stuck” has the connotations of difficulty and adversity. In these lines, Jeanette realizes the emptiness of Welch and struggles that will continue to drown her if she