It makes me so proud that the children have come up with their own plan to go to new York and fix their lives! The dad keeps discouraging them but they know not to listen to him and not to give up. From believing in themselves they get through their troubles which is really inspiring. This book was really good. It kept my attention through out it and I kept finding myself wondering what’ll happen next. I’m really disappointed that this is a memoir and that everything that happened, actually happened in real life, but I’m glad Jeannete still told us her story.

The children are clearly done with the parents shenanigans. You can tell that the older sister and younger brother both back talk the mom and dad often. I’m glad they are seeing what horrible parents they are, especially the dad. It seemed like Jeannette was really hopeful for the dad and supported him with his crazy inventions that he kept promising to make or that were almost done. Now she is pretty clearly done with him as well.

After reading this far into the book it’s clear that there’s a lot of problems with the parents. They are clearly smart in many ways but still seem to not be able to or maybe even not want to really fix the condition they and their kids are living in. I can’t help but feel deeply sorry for the children for having to deal with the parents not acting like adults.

I’ve completed The Glass Castle and the book is 10/10. I’m glad I got assigned to this book for school, the fact that this book is a true story and this is how the author once lived really opens your view on life. After the book, of course I watched the movie! And the film is great, it really gets in your emotions and it’ll make you tear up. Whats your favorite part of the book or movie?

In the final section of the book, Jeannette depicts her family and suggests that they will always remain somewhere between “turbulence and order,” which adds to the theme of stability versus instability. However, there is still instability between her family and herself. Brian is unable to completely forgive his parents for their choices. When he sees the Thanksgiving food, and thinks about his own adulthood, he suggests that it is not that hard to get food on the table, exposing his lingering resentment over his parents’ choices. Turbulence also is apparent in Maureen’s absence from the dinner. Of all the children, Maureen seems to be the one most damaged by her parents’ choices, even though as a child she found others to take care of her. It is unclear what her life is like in California, but her long absence from the family suggests she has learned something about independence. At the end of the story, the family was able to find peace with Rex. Therefore, everyone is able, on some level, to celebrate his absence and free-spirited ways while letting go of the alcoholism that plagued him and eventually killed him.

Through the introduction of Erma, Ted, and Stanley, Walls is able to provide background to Dad’s character. Additionally, she uses irony to illustrate Mom’s lack of understanding of practical matters. Erma, Ted, and Stanley are all rough around the edges. Erma’s cold welcome and Stanley’s whiskey breath indicate that life in Welch is not what Mom imagined it to be. Dad’s reaction to this reunion to his family his quiet but complete relief when offered. The whiskey indicates he is not happy to be back and foreshadows that he left their company for a reason. Dad’s distaste for his family, coupled with Welch’s overall poverty and backwoods ways, makes Mom’s decision to move the family there, as well as her excitement upon their arrival, both ironic and absurd. This is one the most interesting part of the story as it shows the reason why Jeannette distaste her dad in the future.

I have finally finished The Glass Castle. Never before have I enjoyed an assigned book for school, but this book changed the game. I found myself laying in bed, planning to read for twenty minutes and looking back at the clock an hour later. The Glass Castle stopped time, and took me into a different world. It created emotions in me I had never felt before.

Jeannette finally got away, like I said she would. She had finally had enough of the way her parents treated them. Eventually, all of the children abandoned their parents and started their lives over in New York City. She created a new and improved life for herself. She followed her dream in becoming a reporter and made a successful life out of her new found career. Jeannette and the children live a happy life all together; with a roof over their heads, heat, water, and food. Sadly, the parents found a way to weasel themselves back into their lives. They were unable to keep a steady job and lived on the streets for years. Thankfully, Jeannette, Brian, and Lori were able to escape the corruption their parents constantly brought upon them, but Maureen was not capable of doing so. While living with her parents, she lost it. She stabbed her mother. This causes their family to drift apart. Maureen ends up in mental institution, and the rest of them go on living their lives apart.

Rex Walls, her father, later gets sick; deathly ill, and sadly passes. This causes Jeannette to reevaluate the life she was currently living; away from her family, hiding her past, she was no longer herself anymore. She longed for the reckless life and inclusiveness of family, her parents instilled in her from the start. She decides to make big changes and began to be proud of who she was and where she came from, instead of embarrassed. She remarried to a man who loved her for who she was and had the same ideals about life as she did. Jeanette was finally happy and at peace; living her life for the present, but never forgetting her past.

This book was life changing in a sense. It really made me think and appreciate the life that I am blessed with. It helped me to see that someone always has it worse than you do. It was honestly crazy to me that this was actually a life that someone lived, and that these stories and experiences were all real. I am so happy that I chose to read this book as opposed to the other options I had, because this book has taught me more than I ever thought it could; in a fun, captivating way.

The Dad in the Glass Castle is a Drunk but when sober, can possibly have an IQ of Bill Gates from the way the family and kids talk about him. He prefers to live in an isolated place; with not a lot of people around. The manner that he treats his kids is probably not the father way to do things, let them shoot a gun, if injured not take them to a hospital, not live a normal life. What’s your thoughts?

I don’t really have a clue how the book is going to end but if i had to guess i would say that the children will eventually leave the parents. Not because they don’t love them but because they are crazy and they don’t give the children the proper care that they need to be efficient in life. The kids already feel like they provide for themselves so they might as well just go without the parents. The parents don’t see, like they want to change anytime soon; its like something is making them not want to do the right thing as adults.

The parents to me are sort of strange. I understand that they don’t have much money or much of anything,  and have trouble providing for their family, but they also have problems within themselves. Such as the dad has a drinking problem which isn’t good because that can cause more problems between their family. The mom is also off because she doesn’t really speak up and tell the dad when something isn’t good; instead she’ll just go with whatever he says. They also should not be running from whoever; they also make bad choices which is not a good example for the kids.