In these chapters Jeannette's mother has a baby, it takes weeks for them to decide on a name but eventually Jeanette's mother and father agree on the name Lilly Ruth Maureen. They name her after both of their parents. Jeannette and her brother and sister are finally going to school, but the schools in her town are dangerous. The one of the teachers carries a gun to motivate the kids into doing there homework. Jeannette's father has lost his job and his family is starving. Lori, Jeannette's sister eats butter when she is hungry if their family is lucky enough to have it. Jeannette steels out of other kids lurches at school and her brother breaks into a house and steels a jar of pickles. This causes conflict between Jeanette's mother and father, they get into a huge argument and the neighbors come out to watch and listen. Jeannette's father is so upset with with her mother that he grabs her by her hands and hangs her out the window of their 2nd story house. Jeannette doesn't think this is a big deal and thinks that everyone parents do that.
After reading these chapters I realised that there is something very wrong with this family. Jeannette is going through a lot of things that a 7 year old girl shouldn't have to.
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