Finally, after having the idea that the kids think of their entire life as an adventure, the reader gets the first sign that the children aren't thrilled by their lifestyle. Jeanette startles her mom by complaining that she is hungry, breaking their unspoken agreement to pretend their entire life is an incredible adventure. It is clear that the family is fed up with the way they have to live while their father is off gambling and trying to make money to find gold. Their mother is force to get a job as a teacher to try and make more money for the family. She hates her job and perhaps hates more the fact that she has to leave Maureen who is now two with a woman whose husband is in prison. Even with their mother working as well they still don't have much money though they now almost have enough food to last each month. As the book continues, I am slowly beginning see how the Jeanette is beginning to see through her fathers act. Since the readers are hearing the story from Jeanette's perspective we have only seen their father through her eyes and she promised her father she would always have faith in him, I don't feel the readers are getting an accurate depiction of his character. I think that the father will eventually lead to the demise of the family or the children will all leave and become independent of their parents. Once again they have to leave after they got in a fight with a neighbor who had shot them with a BB gun and were ordered to court. They left the night before the trial and went to their grandmother's house in Phoenix.
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