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Jeanette's Home When She Went Away Analysis

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Jeannette’s family has shaped her into an independent person at a young age. When Erma has died one winter, Uncle Stanley and grandpa moved to an apartment in a basement filled with spray painted curse words that the landlord never gotten to cover them. Every weekend, Jeanette’s family takes turn to bathe there. As Lori was enjoying her time in the bathroom, Rosemary was doing cross word puzzle in grandpa’s room, Uncle Stanley and Jeannette were together watching TV in his room. His hand moved to her thighs and even after she knocked it away, his hands came crawling back. Jeanette’s eyes darted towards her uncle and witnessed him playing with himself. When she has told her mom about what has happened she did not try to confront Uncle Stanley about it. “I …show more content…

Relying on her own initiative to find ways to wash herself at her own home instead of depending on Grandpa’s bathroom so that she didn't have to face her perverted uncle. Pursuing this further, Jeanette once again encountered another unwanted situation where it was her dad this time that was involved. He invited her to accompany him on a business trip which has given a stranger the chance to sexually harrased Jeannette without any counteract from her father. “Dad that creep attacked me when we were upstairs .”...”I'm sure he just pawed you some,” Dad said as we pulled out of the parking lot. “I knew you could handle yourself” (Walls 213) As revealed by the evident, Rex was rather satisfied with what has happened rather than being frustrated that his 13 years old daughter has been touched by an older man in order for him to make money. Knowing that her dad was completely fine with what the man was doing she took it upon herself to use her scar and manipulated it to be a way of escaping the situation. The carelessness of Rex have influenced Jeanette to take control of herself and

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