A Family Exposed In Jeannette's Battle Mountain

Battle Mountain is where Jeannette and her family lived it was a poor neighborhood buildings were dirty, cars were faded and old, sidewalks were cracked. They lived in an old train depot and they fixed there home with whatever they could find and the family settles in. Jeannette mom Rose Mary worked in Mary S. Black Elementary she was a teacher she like to work with kids. Jeannette dad Rex Wall worked in a barite mine. Also, Jeannette had three siblings name Lori, Brian and Maureen they all had each other backs. All three of her siblings including Jeannette slept in cardboard boxes and her dad made chairs out of old crates. However, Jeannette and her family were very poor that sometimes when there wasn’t food they wouldn’t eat but when her
During in Battle Mountain Jeannette finds beautiful rocks in the desert and she falls in love with them and decides to keep them and collect more. She also went to school in Battle Mountain she is so smart that she didn’t want to show off her smartness in class instead she stays quite because she didn’t want kids in her class to judge her thinking she’s too smart. In contrast, Jeannette and her family also lived in Welch their lives were a little bit better than Battle Mountains because the house they moved into wasn’t falling apart it was small with a big backyard. However, the neighborhood they moved in Welch was the poorest and they were the poorest family that lived there. When Jeannette and her family settle in one day Jeannette gets bully by a kid name Ernie Goad he and his friends go to her house and throw rocks at her. Although, one night Jeannette dad came home drunk and had a big wound on his forearm and face when Jeannette see him she helps him stitching his wounds. Jeannette mom has a better job in Welch she buys food for the family but it only lasts a couple of