Plot diagram

1. The story opens with us learning her parents or mother is homeless.

2. The family first living in poverty was the first point that the family wanted to end the suffering.

3. Moving to Welch turned the family upside down when they even started to hate the place in the beginning unlike the other locations they have lived before hand.

4. Erma also was a turning point when Erma tried to molest Brian forced the family (children) to want to leave.

5. The fathers resent heavy drinking led Lori and Brian over the edge, eve younger Jeannette was seeing her beloved father for what he was a drunk.

6 But most of all when Jeannette was brought to the bar with her father, thinking it was harmless, yet the father's true intent was to kind of prostitute her off and scam the mine that tried to rape her.

7. The climax was in my mind when Lori left Welch for New York City, that was the turning point for that’s when all the other children found the courage to leave but Maureen whom was too young stayed there at home.

8. When Lori and Jeannette brought Brian to New York is a falling action because they are trying to save what family they have left

9.  When Jeannette went to collage was a true turning point for that meant there was no turning back from there.

10. The last falling action was when the parents came to New York and became homeless for we opened to the picture of see the mother homeless.

11 The resolution of the story it’s that the three eldest children have moved out and become successful adults and Maureen moved off to California.