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“All we had to do was find gold, and we were on the verge of that. Once we finished the prospector and struck it rich, he’d start work on our glass castle."

Rex would do anything for his kids, he promised them that he would build the prospector and find gold. He instead was an alcoholic who would go from job to job, going nowhere and taking his family nowhere as well.

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"I could hear my mom singing while she worked on one of her paintings in the next room. I stabbed a hot dog and offered it to my dog. I felt a blaze on my right side. I turned to see where it came from and realized my dress was on fire."

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As the Walls kids grow up and are neglected by their parents, they must learn to be independent and fend for themselves. Jeannette makes her hot dogs because Rose Mary chose to paint rather than make food for her children. Because of that, she had to be taken to the hospital to say that they can care for the burns all across her stomach.

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"We raised our glasses. I could almost hear dad chuckling at Mom's comment in the way he always did when he was truly enjoying something"

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After Rex passed away, John decided to invite Jeannette's family over for Thanksgiving. It was there where they decided to think of the good memories of Rex and toasted to him at the end of the book.

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" We did have our scratchy army surplus blankets, so we spread them out and lay there, looking up at the field of stars. I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians.

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When Jeannette was growing up, they moved around a lot. She thought it was fun, and the adventure was amazing. Along the way, she had to be sent to the hospital, and her cat got thrown out of the car by her father. I think that’s when Jeannette started figuring out the reality of everything around her. After growing up, she knew that she needed to get out of there and saw the reality of the life she was living.

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"They've been gone for a minute or two when I heard Brian weakly protesting. I went into Grandpa's room and saw Erma kneeling on the floor in front of Brian, grabbing at the crotch of his pants ."

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Brian went through something terrible, and his parents did nothing at all. Rex didn't do anything to protect Brian, and it had to be his sis Lori who protected him and started fighting with Erma. Almost the same thing happened with Jeannette and her uncle, and all that her mother said to her was, " Poor Uncle Stanley is so lonely."

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 "He explained he was going to hire a truck to cart the garbage to dump all at once but never got to that. Brian and I saw the hole for the foundation of the Glass Castle turn into a garbage dump.

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Rex promised that he would start on the Glass Castle when they moved out of Erma's home. They dug a giant hole to get started on it but then that hole was used for something way different then they had thought. Rex and Rose Mary started using it to put their garbage in it and said it was just for a little while until they would get started, but they never started on the Glass Castle.