Answer:
Jeannette's mother had an excuse for everything, she consistently pretended everything was okay.... that her children were well and cared for. In this instance, Jeannnette does the unthinkable by coerrecting her mother's foggy reality and stating the truth. The children had nothing to eat, and Rose Mary talked about imaginary meals and food that wasn't there..... Jeannette finally had the gumption to say, "I was hungry."
Explanation:
https://www.gradesaver.com/the-glass-castle/q-and-a/explain-jeanettes-comment-on-page-69-id-broken-one-of-our-unspoken-rules-we-were-always-supposed-to-pretend-our-life-was-long-and-incredibly-fun-adventure-302281
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/g/the-glass-castle/summary-and-analysis/part-2-the-desert-sections-1718
Designed to explore new directions in poetic language and style, and move away from the formal and highly stylized literature of the eighteenth century.
Virgil
Shakespeare
Hesiod
Dante
Marlowe
from oldest to newest Hesiod, Virgil, Dante, Marlowe, and Shakespeare (Im not sure about Marlowe and Shakespeare, they came around the same time, but Marlowe died before Shakespeare)
1) under the weather means not feeling well.
2) It means that a person is currently unemployed — having quit, been fired, or laid off from his or her previous job, or the previous job was temporary and has now ended — and the person has not yet found a new job.
acid chowder, barking at the ants, the big spit, arguing with the worms, etc.
well-seasoned, experienced, elderly, time lasted, antique
