Post B

"She knew how to get by on next to nothing."(21) This quoute symbolizes how a child looks up to thier parent as a role model. They often think parents are perfect and can't imagine anyone else's opinion of them being right. The mom shows her children how to be self sufficient, and they look up to her, so naturally they learn how to be self sufficient themselves. But as metioned in my first blog Mrs. Walls was ashamed of her mother. So how could this be? I think that the older we become, the more our knowledge of things grows (at least for most of us). I think that Jeanette realized her parent's life style after she had grown up and was introduced to luxury items. I think that being in the lap of luxury, if only for a moment changes peoples' view on life. They want that luxury back Jeanett's parents couldn't afford to put thier family in the life of luxury. They found a way to make they poor lifestyle seem glamorous to thier children, and therefore the kids were content with the way they were raised. It wasn't until she got older that Jeanette stopped looking up to her parents. I think that she views them as a lower class than herself because she has more money than they do. On the contrary, I think her parents have class being able to be happy with thier lifestyle and not begging on the streets, which they very well could be doing.