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What experiences do you share with the characters?

I can't say that I have really experienced the things they are going through in this section of the book.

In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

My dad does not just leave for days on end.

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced?

How everything that they are going through changes them and their views on people close to them very quickly.

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Jeannette is trying to find a way to make their lives better and she is trying to convince her mom to leave their dad to get on welfare "Mom, you have to leave Dad,". (Pg 188, Walls) Even though Jeannette has been her dads biggest supporter she is starting to realize that her dad is the cause to almost all of their problems and if she wants to have a better life she need to get away from her father. She went from thinking her dad was the greatest person in the world to seeing that he is a problem.

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Q #1 What forces are motivating the characters?

I believe at this point Jeannette has given up on the idea of the glass castle, while she still has dreams I think that she really just wants a better life where she can be comfortable with food all the time and a good home over her head.

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What experiences do you share with the characters?

I can't really relate to the experiences they go through, the only thing similar is that I got into a lot of fights as a young kid.

In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

My family has almost never had trouble keeping food on the table and I have lived in the same house my whole life.

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced?

Just more about how people in Jeannette and her family's situation are surprised by things that many people might find normal in their everyday life.

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Social Class

Their family is at the bottom of the social class in America. They struggle to keep food on the table, keep a home and they currently live in a house with no running water or gas and often times no electricity. They live in poor areas and still are poorer than most.

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When the family was moving into Welch in West Virginia with their grandparents, the history of Welch is being explained and it said "President John F. Kennedy had come to Welch not long after he was elected and personally handed out the nations first food stamps". (Pg 134 Walls) This gives an example of how poor of an area that they are living in and yet they are still one of the poorest if not most poor family's in the area.

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Q#2 -How do economic conditions determine the characters' lives?

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What experiences do you share with the characters?

I don't really share the same experiences that the characters in the book are experiencing.

In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

My family also has a parenting style were the kids have less rules and we figure things out on our own but definitely not on the same level of style as Jeannette's parents.

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced?

Im not sure if it was learning but I really noticed the appreciation to things in life that a lot of people don't really appreciate as much.

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Culture

Jeannette and her siblings face many issues due to their parents culture and how they raised them. Their parenting style causes them to be in tough situations that they could avoid, as well as their bad financial decisions. They could be living a stable life if it were not for the style and culture of how they grew up. Their grandmother was trying to help them and if they just stuck to both parents having stable jobs the children could have had a much more stable and healthy childhood.

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When Jeannette and her siblings were going hungry and their dad saw them he brought them food at school. He Acted as if he did not really know they ever went hungry, and at the school he said "Have I ever let you down?" and Brian responded by saying "Yes" when he could not hear. This shows how the kids are starting to lose their trust in their dad and that stuck out to me.

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Q#1 - How does The Meaning of a Text Change as you Reread it?

I found that sometimes when I was reading the text or rereading it I was changing my perspective of the people in the text. For example sometimes I felt that the dad was a good person or father and other times I viewed him as a terrible father. Overall the more I read the text I get different views of the characters which affects how I view them overall.

Q#2 - How do your Values alter the Perception of the Text?

One of my values is to do what makes you happy in life which affects how I see the parents because even though I think they are bad parents I do not blame them for what they are doing. The father does not want to follow everyone's orders and he wants to do his own thing and the mother is the same she wants to paint and do other things. I can relate to this which makes me feel sympathetic to them but I still view them as bad parents.

Q#6 - What was the work’s original intended audience? To what extent are you similar or different from that audience?

I believe that the book was intended to be read by anyone but I think that the author was trying to target children that might be in the same situation or parents in this situation.

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Questions:

Choose a significant event that occurs in your reading. What do you think the author's purpose was in telling that part of the story?

One significant event would be when Jeannette is in the hospital for burns and she likes it there a lot because there is everything that she needs in there, but her father does not have the same view and takes her from the hospital. I believe that her purpose in telling this was to show us the situations she grew up in and how he parents were.

What tone and mood are created at various parts of the work?

While the mood is sometimes happy because Jeannette was happy most of the time it show a sense of rough situations and a struggle for the basics like food.

How effective is the author’s use of dialogue? How does dialogue enhance the storytelling?

The author is very effective in the storytelling by showing and telling us her personal view which gives us a good perspective of how her life was growing up as a child.

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After getting burned from a fire the doctors told Jeannette she was going to be ok and she responded by saying "I Know... But if im not, thats ok, too.". This stuck out to me because it seemed as if she did not really care about what happens to her, the only thing I could relate this to was optimism in a way.

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What experiences do you share with the characters?

I do not really share many of the experiences with these characters.

In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

My family is still functional, but I guess one thing similar is that my dad drinks as well.

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced?

It gave me an insight on how they lived and a different way of how people live, it is definitely interesting with the parents and their style of doing things.

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Social Class

Health

Jeannette and her siblings definitely faced troubles with their social class and health. While their parents has some opportunity's to be in a better situation they actively chose to be homeless giving the children a difficult situation to live in. Health is a problem as well because like said in the book they do not always have food and often go hungry. They also have money problems and owe many different people money. Their parents do not really trust doctors as well and a example of endangering the children health is often taking the children from hospitals earlier than they should.