Jeannette's Love And Love In The Walls Family

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Jeannette and her father Rex have a hopeful beginning to their relationship which consists of its own heroic moments filled with many learning experiences, moments of trust, and source of comfort, which letter on took a disappointing end filled with, hypocrisy, lack of trust, lack of protection, alcohol addictions, and death.

The Walls family consists of three daughters and a son. Out of all of the kids, Rex the father favors Jeannette who is the middle child only because he felt that they both understand each other. “ I swear, honey, there are times I think you’re the only one around who still has faith in me” (P;79). This shows how their trust in each other is compared to the rest of the family and it also shows their bond, their sense …show more content…

Some might say that’s love and some might say that’s just barbaric, but I think it 's a bit of both, even though I will never go to such an extreme, towards any of my kids that I might have in the future. Rex always has an interestingly smart way of explaining things in order to get the benefits of it through. While the Walls family were on a road trip just as they always do the skedaddle, they took a little break in the middle of nowhere just to lay down. “ We had no pillows, but Dad said it was his plan to teach us to have a good posture”. He then explains how the Indians did not use pillows, “‘Look how straight they stood’’ just to instill some appreciation in them and good posture. Jeannette considers her father really smart (p;23). Prior to school, before the kids started school, Rex taught them many important and beneficial things, for example, he taught them math, so that they might be able to adapt to solving problems they face in school or outside school. He also taught them, how dangerous the liver of a polar bear is, he …show more content…

Jeannette gets too scared so she runs outside to her father for comfort, then tells him what happened. He says, “ It’s that old ornery demon’’ (p;36). He was her source of comfort and she felt it by how empathetic he was with her whenever she was distressed.
Even though things were good with Rex and Jeannette , but “ He did have what mom called a little bit of a drinking situation”(23) which wasn’t that big of deal to Jeannette in the beginning, but due to his habit of changing jobs, more so losing them, and having the same excuses for losing them creates doubtful feelings in Jeannette’s mind. which exhibits a bit of concern in Jeannette about her father’s doings. One time the walls family went to the church but Rex wasn’t himself for he was drunk, so he started insulting the people at the church, which just shows his miserable state every time he drinks. He then goes out of hand by insulting Jeannette, “ I didn’t like dad when he talked like that” (p;114), first time Jeannette feels negative towards

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