In there new town everybody was tight on money. All the kids were "scrawny", and they all played together. What was most important to them was who ran the fastest, and who's dad wasn't a wimp. To me this is a little weird, me and my friends don't really care who can run the fastest or if our dads are wimps. But these kids didn't have a lot, so they had to figure out their own ways of having fun. Jeannette's dad was the most popular. He would always come out and play with the kids, and the kids would ask, "Can your dad come out and play?" The dad cares so much about his kids, he wants them to do the best in school and he takes the time to play with them. Even though when he is drunk he becomes angry at them, they are still the most important thing to him.
I am still amazed that these kids find joy in the simplest things. Jeannette especially seems to always find something fun to do. She collects rocks, and even finds very valuable ones. Jeannette and her brother Brian like to look for treasure in the dump. They collected hazardous materials to do "experiments". Just like every kid, they are very curious. Sometimes kids curiosity gets them in trouble and in this case it did. They decided to test the flammability of the materials. They dropped matches into one of the hazardous cans and it all went bad from there. Their shack was engulfed by flames. They stood there with their dad and watched it fall to the ground. I'm not sure how my parents would react to this, but i know that they would not be happy at all. Well, their dad wasn't one bit mad. While he was explaining that zone was known as the boundary between turbulence and order he said, "It's a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven't figured 'em out yet. You-all got a little too close to it today."
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