The Glass Castle Analysis

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Melina Soriano
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4 August 2014
The Glass Castle : Prompt 1

"The Glass Castle" has shown me the way to include a childlike and dare devil way of life I use to live as child into my now more mature and you can say, safer lifestyle.

An interesting part of this memoir is the fact that hope was never lost until relativity was recognized. Until then the hope lived on. In certain sections of the book I would seem to get angry at Jeanette’s parents (Rose and Rex). Whether it was due to their own actions toward each other, or the way they treated their children. Although Jeanette describes them with so much love and affection. Which makes it seem like the time where her father taught her how to swim by nearly drowning her was ok, along …show more content…
When they did it wasn't permeant, these temporary homes were in random desert towns. They stood here until they had to do what their father called the "skedaddle". Although, once the family settled down in a town called Battle Mountain, Nevada the skedaddle came to a halt for a few months. During this time Jeanette, along with her brother and sister (Lori and Brian) attended Mary S. Black Elementary School. And even later on into their stay in the Battle Mountains Jeanette’s mom (Rose) decided to apply as a teacher (since she had a teaching degree) and got the job in as little as no time. But a little bump in the road with law officials, gets the family back into skedaddle mode and off to …show more content…
Ninety pages of Jeanette’s opinions, and thoughts just on this one section of her memoir. We were able to get her side of every story, her perspective of every argument but what about Brain’s or Lori’s, even little baby Maureen’s opinions, they went through this too. But if it were not for the fact that this is based on Jeanette’s part of the story we would not be able to see how her past helped create her present lifestyle. You see this book is like puzzle pieces once you piece them together you see how it all works out. All through her childhood Rex (Jeanette’s dad) kept telling her, along with everyone else in the family that one day he was going to build his Glass Castle for them. This is reason they kept moving so Rex could strike it rich and get the money to make the glass castle. Although this never happened everybody kept on living and hoping that it would. In fact its so believed in and hoped for, that Rex has even already made plans for the designs and dimensions. But one day Jeanette gives up hope once she finally comes to realization that its not going to happen due to the fact the whole idea of this Glass Castle and how its going to happened is a bunch of garbage. Once she realizes this she able to let go of the remains of what is known as the Glass Castle, leave her childhood behind and step into
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