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Pam is a white woman who lives in Tobin’s trailer park. She is the mother of Bliss, Sandra, Kristen, and an unnamed baby girl, and the stepmother of Laura. She and her boyfriend, Ned, are both crack users. Pam is pregnant when she and her family are evicted from Tobin’s trailer park. She sometimes dreams of taking her daughters and fleeing Ned’s cruelty and violence, but feels that this is not practically possible.
Pam Quotes in Evicted
The Evicted quotes below are all either spoken by Pam or refer to Pam. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14 Quotes
But for the most part, tenants had a high tolerance for inequality. They spent little time questioning the wide gulf separating their poverty from Tobin's wealth or asking why rent for a worn-out aluminum-wrapped trailer took such a large chunk of their income. Their focus was on smaller, more tangible problems […] Most renters in Milwaukee thought highly of their landlord. Who had time to protest inequality when you were trying to get the rotten spot in your floorboard patched before your daughter put her foot through it again? Who cared what the landlord was making as long as he was willing to work with you until you got back on your feet? There was always something worse than the trailer park, always room to drop lower.
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Despite being a drug user himself, Scott thinks Pam and Ned deserved to be evicted on account of their drug habit. In the past, renters would band together, viewing themselves as a class who had to fight for their own rights in the face of the landlords who tried to exploit them. However, in today’s world, most residents seem to accept the vast inequality and injustice that defines the American housing system and indeed society at large. Desmond suggests that this is partly because tenants are distracted by the burden of surviving every day, which leaves them little headspace to Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta i
Chapter 19 Quotes
Job loss could lead to eviction, but the reverse was also true. An eviction not only consumed renters' time, causing them to miss work, it also weighed heavily on their minds, often triggering mistakes on the job. It overwhelmed workers with stress, leading them to act unprofessionally, and commonly resulted in their relocating farther away from their worksite, increasing their likelihood of being late or missing days.
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After her family is evicted from the trailer park, Pam finds a motel where she can stay for $50 a night. Shortly after, Ned is fired from his job due to missing two days of work during the eviction. This is yet another example of how eviction is not only the product of social problems such as unemployment, instability, and poverty—it also causes these problems. The stressful burden of eviction is so intense that Ned can hardly be blamed for missing work because of it. Yet the fact that he missed work means he is fired, which in turn makes Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incid
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Pam Character Timeline in Evicted
The timeline below shows where the character Pam appears in Evicted. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4: A Beautiful Collection
Pam and her boyfriend, Ned Kroll, attempt to stop their eviction by paying $1,500, but Tobin...
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Pam is pregnant again. She already has four daughters, two of whom were with her ex-boyfriend,...
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Ned and Pam met through their crack addiction and soon began selling together. Before long they were caught...
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After Tobin informs them that they are being evicted, Ned and Pam fight over whose fault it is. They sell all the possessions they can. Pam recently...
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Chapter 7: The Sick
...Already small and weak at 52, Teddy seems much older than he is. Even after Pam and Ned leave for a motel, Scott and Teddy still face eviction for unpaid rent,...
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Chapter 14: High Tolerance
Scott believes that Pam and Ned are responsible for their own eviction because they spend money on drugs. Heroin...
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Chapter 19: Little
After being evicted, Pam and her family stay in a motel for $50 a night. Ned is fired because...
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After a month with Ned’s friend, Pam and Ned realize they need to find somewhere else. Pam is due to give birth...
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...are turned away from 7 out of 10 rental units they approach. Like Ned and Pam, Arleen is also struggling to find a landlord that will take her and her boys....
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After spending all day calling landlords, Pam reluctantly decides to start searching in the predominantly-Hispanic South Side. Units are cheaper there, but...
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Ned’s friend kicks Pam and Ned out, and almost immediately afterward Pam gives birth to a baby girl. Shortly...
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