The Homesick Restaurant

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Have you ever thought about how someone else has different views about situations than you do? In the book Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, she includes the different ways each of Pearl Tull’s children view their life after their father leaves their mother. Pearl Tull is a mother of three kids who has slowly been losing her eyesight in her old age. She is on her deathbed as she recollects her memories from when she was a middle-aged women raising her children on her own after her husband, Beck, leaves her. The kids all get together when their mother is in the hospital dying and reminisce on a few situations that their family encountered. At the end of the book, they attend their mother’s funeral and later eat at The Homesick …show more content…

This whole book contained stories from when the Tull family was young to when Pearl died and the children had kids of their own. Pearl started out in the book as a 30 year old woman who was married to Beck Tull, a young salesman who moved his family to many different places for his job. They had three children together, Cody, Ezra, and Jenny. Beck left his family when his children were still young to be able to travel more for his job. Pearl had to learn to raise three children on her own while also working everyday because they did not live in affluence. She became very bitter and often verbally abused her kids. Cody was the oldest son who was known for getting into trouble. He loved winning, so would cheat when he played games with his family and friends. He was jealous of his brother and his mother’s relationship because they were very close. Cody was always messing with his brother and stealing his items to make him mad because he felt enmity towards him. Once they grew up, his brother, Ezra, had fallen in love with a girl but Cody was jealous so he stole the girl and married her instead. Ezra was the capricious middle child, also his mother’s favorite. He was clumsy and quite an awkward child. His favorite thing to do was play songs on his whistle and mind his own business by eschewing his peers. He started working at a restaurant when he grew up until the owner passed it down to him. He later renamed that restaurant The Homesick Restaurant. Jenny was tenuous, the youngest child, and also the only girl. Her mother picked on her a lot because she would not help with cooking or cleaning like she was supposed to. She always got good grades and spent her time studying. Jenny grew up and remarried three times, then ended up with a man who had six kids. This family changed quite a bit throughout this book by the time their mother was hospitalized when she was 80. Ezra stayed with Pearl in the

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