Eleanor
- At home, Eleanor's mom talks with her and dabs vanilla behind Eleanor's ears like perfume. She seems relaxed, and Eleanor thinks she looks "almost like she used to" (11.11).
- Eleanor wakes up to Richie's shouting and her mom crying as if she'd been crying for a long time. The rest of her siblings are already awake. Eleanor climbs down from her bed to join the rest of the kids on the floor. Eleanor thinks that if this had happened before she was sent away, she would have tried to stop it, but now "that seemed like something a child would do, or a fool" (11.19). She thinks even the baby "seemed to realize that trying to make this stop would only ever make it worse" (11.19).
- When Eleanor wakes up, she wonders if her mom is still alive, until the smell of bacon reassures her that she is. Yikes.
- Eleanor smells like pee, because one of her brothers wet the bed last night and climbed on her. She has to ask her mom to help her get clean. Her mom, who's visibly bruised, offers to guard the bathroom door against Richie while she washes off. Her only option: go to school wearing yesterday's clothes.