Now I realize that the suggestion sheet says that you should choose your favorite character to describe, but in y book i only have a least favorite. Well actually two, but i don't want to take up too much space. My least favorite character is their mother. Im not going to give a physical description, because if Jennette Walls has taught me anything in her memoir its that looks can be very very deceiving and misleading.
Jennette's mother is probably one of the least mature people in the whole books. Her own children have to force her to go to school, because she complains and tries to stay home. Normally its the other way around, but to me it seems like half the time they take care of her more than she takes care of them. That should not happen.
Her mother is the single most selfish being in the memoir. She takes everything for herself and always puts her kids second. There is one scene in the book where the kids are starving and they go ever to their mom. To no surprise she's hiding under the covers with a humungous Hersey bar snacking away without giving any to her kids and they have to take it from her.
My biggest thing that i have against their mom is how she is so weak and refuses to be strong. The kids have literally told her to leave their father. She stubbornly refuses even though he has hit her and the kids. It would be unholy to leave their father but apparently its fine if u let him hit your kids. Also she willingly lets him take money to go out and drink, and takes his side no matter what happens. She needs to take initiative and help her children. She is dragging them in a life that is completely unfit for them, but refuses to do anything about it. Thats just not right.
I agree with you. Jeanette's mom is also my least favorite character. It doesn't really seem like she cares for her kids, and if she does, she doesn't show it well. Unlike her father, we never really see any bonding moments between Jeanette and her mom. Jeanette picked out stars and looked for demons with her dad, but there is nothing like that between Jeanette and her mom. I don't understand how she could actively choose herself before her kids. She doesn't support them financially and for the time that she did, she refused to go to work. Overall, she just doesn't seem like that great of a person.
ReplyDeleteBruhhh that is insane I totally agree with you 100%,why in the world would you even have kids if you aren't even going to take the responsibility it take to raise them plus you have an abusive husband who will eventually put you on the streets if you just keep letting him take money to go drink. She needs to be more responsible because its not her kids jobs to raise her,she already lived with her mommy and daddy and her parents took care of her so now she decides to be a mommy its time to grow up.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there are factors that contribute to Wall's mother's behavior? Perhaps her marriage and her mental health? Maybe Wall's is critiquing expectations of motherhood in a way that gets the reader questioning why we think mothers should be selfless?
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