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"You want to help me change my life?" Mom asked. "I'm fine. You're the one that needs help." Jeannette said.

The actions of Jeannette's parents Rose Mary and Rex Walls, has reflected on them to be non- conformist people resulting Jeannette to be the opposite.

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"It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do."

Jeannette's mother disapproves Jeannette by chewing gum that the nurses gave Jeannette. Rose Mary calls it a low-class habit chewing gum when the Walls family are low-class habit people.

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"Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are."

Jeannette and her other brothers had to accept their parents on how they live when they were little.

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"Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better."

For Jeannette's 10th birthday she wanted a gift. That gift was that if Rex would stop drinking alcohol. He did stop drinking for a while but then he started drinking again.

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"You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies."

Rose Mary and Rex Walls did not took care of their children. Most of the time the children took care of themselves.

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"All of dad's engineering skills were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert."

The Glass Castle refers to Jeannette's father's long held intention of building his dream house, a glass castle.