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Reflecting on theme…

Target audience: My classmates and teacher.
Purpose of this blog: reflect on the theme

In this touching book, Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, exposes her true life by the lessons, adventures, and experiences that have brought on her and her family emotionally but also rewarding. The book starts out with mid 30’s Jeannette Walls in New York City sitting in a taxi through traffic. As she waits to go to one of her expensive, nice party, she looks at a homeless woman. She notices that it is her mother and can’t believe it is her. Her reaction was to hide so no one could know that they could actually be related. Her battles with accepting her mother being homeless are because her whole life was just moving around, no money, no structure in the family and struggles that came between them. While growing up in her uncontrolled environment, constant hardships and realities made her want more meaning in her life. From all of this, she has become a successful, stable, hardworking and intelligent writer. In the end, at Thanksgiving we see the Walls family reunite, always a heart-warming time. When Jeannette’s stepdaughter says Jeannette’s mom “laughs just like you do” (5.1.15), Jeannette realizes that she will always be a little bit like her mom, no matter how far she runs and how much she changes. The book ends with a toast that warms the heart. Mom says, “Life with your father was never boring” (5.1.25), and the family shares funny father stories. Probably not the stories where he nearly killed them, or the stories of defending his own mother after sexually assaulting his son. The positive is the focus of the family. We think that’s how they survived this long. Overall everything was really satisfying for me. I wouldn’t make any changes because it is a real story. I want it to be real as it is.

One of the major themes in this novel is the real meaning of the word Family. The Walls family in The Glass Castle is more similar to a voyaging carnival than the Family Circus. We’re talking broken. With Mom and Dad as the instigators, the family bums around the country…and, oh yeah, did we mention that they’re a family of bums? Mother and Dad don’t understand that one day, the children will get mature enough to know better and will begin to search for something different. “I am your mother, and I should have a say in how you’re raised.” (2.1.26) This is when Jeannette blames Mom for not acting like a mother. Mother doesn’t have a desire to raise her own children—she lets Jeannette cook at three years of age, for the sake of “good” —until another person does child rearing for her. Possibly she feels regretful. One other example is “Mom felt that Grandma Smith nagged and badgered, setting rules and punishments for breaking the rules. It drove Mom crazy, and it was the reason she never set rules for us.” (2.21.2) Mom appears to be the way she is because she’s determined to be her own mother’s exact opposite. Having said that, it sure takes a long time for Mom to mature, herself …

Families frequently stick together, for better or for more terrible, yet the Walls family falls into the “more awful” class. Together, these relatives hurt themselves more than they help themselves. Maybe some families are better off apart. Their parents treat other things better than their own children. For example, “I believed she thought of her paintings as children and wanted them to feel that they were all being treated equally.”(3.6.30). If Mom treated her paintings as kids, she would put them in a box of cardboard and let them fend for themselves. Mom is actually treating her paintings better in some ways than she is treating her own children. What about her priorities?

Forever in a Dream

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Target audience: My classmates and teacher.
Purpose of this blog: The representation of glass castle, not only to Rex, but to the rest of the family as well.

I would state the Glass Castle is illustrative of Rex’s building and scientific virtuoso – he was so a long way comparatively radical! However it is additionally illustrative of his powerlessness to be a legitimate dad figure to his kids and similarly as they progressively turned out to be frustrated as to his capacity to give appropriately to them (physically, inwardly, in a sustaining way), so too do they understand that his arrangements for the glass castle are just another guarantee that he won’t most likely keep. We discuss building ‘castle’ noticeable all around and talk about ’empty promises’ – that is the thing that the glass castle is: a beautiful dream, in any case vacant.

Glass Castle became a goal for every person in the family because Rex Walls dependably guaranteed to build the family a castle made from the glass when they have enough cash. As you may figure, the castle was never built. His children were also very excited to build the glass castle as you read in part 3 when Brian and Jeannette, eager to make this vision a reality, start digging the foundation. They carve out and smooth a large section of the earth; however, the family cannot afford garbage service and starts throwing their trash into the hole. The fact that Dad’s dream of the Glass Castle is now, literally, a garbage pile. Jeannette never gave up on that dream, she tried her best to fulfill that dream but eventually she also gave up. https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/MjgxMjA5OTQwNTJa/m/MzI2MzcwOTMyNTBa/details

Lori found out really quickly that this is not gonna happen. For her, glass castle is just a thought because she knows that her parents cannot afford to build it. We don’t even know that if she helped Brian and Jeannette to dig the foundation of glass castle. Rose Mary is also not very interested in building the glass castle. To her, Glass Castle is like meh, she doesn’t seem to care because she is really busy thinking about herself. In the end, I would say that the Glass Castle was like magic for some of the family members. For example, Jeannette thinking was that building Glass Castle would solve all there problems. And for some family members, Glass Castle was nothing for them because they knew that it will be forever a dream!

Round(complex) or Flat (stereotypical)?

Target audience: My classmates and teacher.
Purpose of this blog: to identify the main characters in the novel are round or flat ?
  • Round Characters: Jeannette Walls , Rose Mary Walls and Lori
  • Flat Characters: Maureen Walls.
  • Round/Flat Characters: Rex Walls and Brian Walls

The hero in The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls. In the book, Jeannette is referred to additional as a round and dynamic character. She experiences an imperative internal change and is significantly more detailed than a flat character.For Example: To start with she must become a parent, because her own parents are useless. This job inversion comes at a youthful age, when Jeannette is just thirteen. Since her own mother won’t do it, Jeannette must be a mother, making a financial plan, overseeing assets, dealing with her very own dad, and saying things like, “I’ve got kids to feed” (3.20.33). Additionally, in the book Jeannette legitimately depicts her character in light of the fact that the book is composed from her perspective. Rose Mary generally looks on the splendid side of life, however, she transforms life into a silly Monty Python play. She also loves her family but only after her own needs are met. “I’ve spent my life taking care of other people […] Now it’s time to take care of me” (4.4.5). Here, she just comes across as selfish and delusional, a dangerous combo. Worst of all, she will never change. She says, “I like the world just fine the way I see it” (2.22.28). Yes, because the way she sees it, everything revolves around her. Lori Walls is the oldest child of the family. She is smart and loving, however without Jeannette,doesn’t have the fearlessness to get away from the existence she loathes. She develops “a bit of a sarcastic streak” (3.6.18). Maureen Walls is the most fragile of the children and spends all her life looking for someone to take care of her and is the only flat character in this novel. 


Rex Walls and Brian Walls are the mixture of both round and flat characters. Rex is Jeannette’s alcoholic dad who controls and uses his significant other and his kids for his very own necessities but then loves constantly and hoping they love him. Brian is also the only one who says “yes” (2.19.19) when Dad asks if he has let them down. Since Brian speaks the truth about how his parents are, he appears to have a simpler time separating himself from them after some time. He’s more joyful not having them be a piece of his life as a grown-up.

A Woman on the Street

The purpose of my this blog is to describe how the first Chapter of “The Glass Castle” emphasize the perspective of Jeannette Walls and is telling the trust is “simple enough” in the end of the chapter.

The book ” The Glass Castle” uncovers Jeannette’s mystery while additionally telling the peruser that she made it out. A well known writer living in Park Avenue, the Jeannette Walls of Part I appears as though she would have next to no to do with the youthful Jeannette Walls of the accompanying sections, the Jeannette Walls who was in some cases compelled to scrounge through dumpsters for nourishment or to eat slimy parasite swarmed meat when nothing else was accessible.

On day Jeannette Walls is riding in a taxi going to a party when she sees her mom burrowing through a trashcan. She has not seen her mom for a considerable length of time. Jeannette started worrying that somebody will see her. Just a couple of squares from the party, she fears that her obsession with the lady by the dumpster would excite doubt. To abstain from being seen she brings down herself in her seat and tells the driver to take her back to home. But once she gets home we see on page 3 that she felt ashamed by hiding from her own mother. She also started feeling guilty that she has food, furniture, jewelry everything, and her parents don’t even have a permanent place to live and they are eating from dumpsters. She asked them so many times if they needed help. When finally her offers were acknowledged, Jeannette’s mom regularly requested extreme and superfluous things like enrollment to a wellness club. Nevertheless, she is really ashamed of what she did. She realizes that no matter what they will be always her parents. https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/MjgxMjA5OTQwNTJa/m/MzI2MzcwOTMyNTBa/details

I believe that telling the truth is far better than lying 100 times. But in Jeannette’s situation, it is really hard, to tell the truth. It is not easy to hear from others when they will label you “dumpsters kid” or when they’ll say look she is the daughter of that person who eats from garbage. Whereas, her mom doesn’t care about labels, doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with being homeless. I can understand Jeannette’s situation because, for many years back home, I was afraid to tell people that I’m Ahmadi Muslim. People were against us and whenever they found any Ahmadi Muslim they would kill them on the spot. I had to hide my caste from others. So I know that it is hard to accept the reality because you’re afraid of how surroundings will react to that.