- Jeannette is moleseted by some random homeless guy who walks into her house. She is annoyed by the event, but doesn't make as big a deal out of it as I would feel necessary.
- Jeannette's mom takes her swimming in a public fountain telling her kids to ignore what others think.
- Jeannette's dad takes her to the zoo, and they go in the cheetah cage to petting it and making a huge scene.
- Jeannette's dad loses her job, and the kids go hungry often.
- Mom decides to go shoplifting in order to get maureen some nice clothes.
- Dad comes up with an idea to have some extra cash. He realizes that the computers at the bank take a couple minutes to process, so his idea is to open new accounts each week. Then he will at the end of the week have his wife go through the drive through and withdraw money at the same time he closes the account withdrawing all the money.
- Dad is a huge drunk and destroys the house during the period he is wasted.
- At Christmas, dad ruins the whole day as he is drunk and lights the Christmas tree on fire which doesn't only burn the tree, but all the presents too.
- Jeannette asks her dad for her birthday that he stops drinking. He struggles a lot with this, but forces himself to stop.
- They decided after thier dad is sober to go to the grand cayon, but thier car breaks down and they end up having to walk home.
- After all he put himself through, dad goes back to drinking.
- They decide to move to west virginia where Jeannette's dad's parents' live.
- It takes them a month to get there.
- Jeannette is dissapointed when her grandparents aren't very nice and hopes things will get better
My favorite quote from this part is as follows: "'Okay kids,' dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle'" (pg. 109).
I Like this quote because it represents the rebellious and different life that the Walls family live.
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