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"You mean you own land worth a million dollars? I was thunderstruck. All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars?...It became clear to Mom, holding on to land was not so much an investment strategy as it was an article of faith." (273)

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"It was a big dank room, with cinder-block walls and a green linoleum floor." (132)

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"It was a big dank room, with cinder-block walls and a green linoleum floor." (132)

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Linoleum (noun): A material consisting of a canvas backing thickly coated with a preparation of linseed oil and powdered cork, used especially as a floor covering.
Example: Floors in kitchens would have been either quarry tiles or linoleum, the latter also being employed on tabletops for ease of cleaning.

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"Since we had no refrigerator, we left the ham on a kitchen shelf. After it had been there for about a week, I went to saw myself a slab at dinnertime and saw it crawling with little white worms.... Don't be so picky, she told me. Just slice off the maggoty parts. The inside's fine." (172)    

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"Since we had no refrigerator, we left the ham on a kitchen shelf. After it had been there for about a week, I went to saw myself a slab at dinnertime and saw it crawling with little white worms.... Don't be so picky, she told me. Just slice off the maggoty parts. The inside's fine." (172)    

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This particular quote shows the mother's lack of concern for her daughter's well being as she is told to eat a piece of ham even though it is crawling with maggots. One may interpret this as bad parenting, but the book is crafted in such a way that at this point, the reader is aware of the families parenting style and is even appreciative of the mother's bluntness and disregard of safety. Throughout the entire book, the Wall parents are extremely hands off and let their children do as they please. They have a very different perspective on life, as they view civilization and conformity in a poor light. While nature in a very positive light.

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"I felt almost as cold in the house; While we had a coal stove, we had no coal... Mom said she was sorry, but there was no room in our budget for coal. We'd have to devise other ways to stay warm. Pieces of coal were always falling off the trucks when they made their deliveries, and Brian suggested that he and I get a bucket and try to collect some" (175)

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"I felt almost as cold in the house; While we had a coal stove, we had no coal... Mom said she was sorry, but there was no room in our budget for coal. We'd have to devise other ways to stay warm. Pieces of coal were always falling off the trucks when they made their deliveries, and Brian suggested that he and I get a bucket and try to collect some" (175)

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Once again, this quote touched on the repeating quality of the Walls' children. After moving to Welch, West Virginia they were extremely cold and couldn't even afford coal to heat up their house during the winter. Yet again, they were forced to resort to their slick methods of using the best of their situation to try and provide for themselves and their family. Although it did not turn out to be too successful, Jeannette and Brian tried to collect small pieces of coal that were falling off of the trucks. Again and again, the kids will have to resort to their own means to help themselves.

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January 5th, 2018

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"If the typewriter keys were clattering away, she was at work on one of her novels, poems, plays, short stories, or her illustrated collection of pithy sayings—one was “Life is a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in”—which she’d titled “R. M. Walls’s Philosophy of Life.” (98)

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"If the typewriter keys were clattering away, she was at work on one of her novels, poems, plays, short stories, or her illustrated collection of pithy sayings—one was “Life is a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in”—which she’d titled “R. M. Walls’s Philosophy of Life.” (98)

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Pithy (Adjective): (of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive.
Example: The short, pithy sayings have become popular mottoes and household words.

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"She would say that only bad things happened there, which made the Green Lantern a place of irresistible mystery to us." (62)

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"She would say that only bad things happened there, which made the Green Lantern a place of irresistible mystery to us." (62)

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The quote above is about the kids perspective on the Green Lantern. The kids are unaware that the women at the Green Lantern are prostitutes. Throughout the entire story, the reader is shown that Mom will tell her kids anything and everything as she believes kids should not be left in the dark in any way. When she does not tell the kids what the Green Lantern is, it prompts the reader to wonder what keeps her from telling her kids what it is. Perhaps she had bad experiences in places like the Green Lantern in her past. Throughout the book, this is the only time that she has hid the truth from her kids.

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"Since we didn't have any money for furniture, we improvised. A bunch of huge wooden spools, the kind that hold industrial cable, had been dumped on the side of the tracks not far from our house, so we rolled them home and turned them into tables. What kind of fools would go waste money on store-bought tables when they can have these for free?" (51-52)   

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"Since we didn't have any money for furniture, we improvised. A bunch of huge wooden spools, the kind that hold industrial cable, had been dumped on the side of the tracks not far from our house, so we rolled them home and turned them into tables. What kind of fools would go waste money on store-bought tables when they can have these for free?" (51-52)   

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The quote above represents one of the strongest qualities of the Walls' family: resourcefulness. Through their journeys from town to town, they have always been in tough financial positions. Over the years the family has learned to harness the resources around them in order to increase their standard of living. In this particular situation, they used large wooden spools as tables due to their lack of money. Other moments of their resourcefulness is when they used large cardboard boxes as beds and depending on the land around them for nourishment. This quote served as a symbol of resourcefulness for the Walls' family.

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December 21, 2017

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DUE DATES:
Week #1: 12/15
Week #2: 12/21
Week #3: 1/5

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December 15, 2017

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"But we’d call the baby Maureen, a name Mom liked because it was a diminutive of Mary, so she’d also be naming the baby after herself but pretty much no one would know it." (47)

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"But we’d call the baby Maureen, a name Mom liked because it was a diminutive of Mary, so she’d also be naming the baby after herself but pretty much no one would know it." (47)

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Diminutive (noun): A smaller or shorter thing, in particular / A shortened form of a name, typically used informally.
Example: Jake is a diminutive of Jacob.

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"Good for you, you've got to get right back in the saddle. You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire." (15)

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"Good for you, you've got to get right back in the saddle. You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire." (15)

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To provide some context, this segment of the book occurred after a three year-old Jeannette suffered serious scarring and burn damage on her body after catching on fire while cooking hot dogs for herself. After spending many months in the hospital, Jeannette's father kidnapped her from the hospital as he didn't believe in doctors. The quote occurs when she gets back home and her mother talks to her. This quote represents the Walls' family's values in perseverance, strength, and belief that pain/suffering make you a better human being. This notion is seen many times through the first couple of chapters but I felt this quote represented it the best.

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Through my vast experience of independent reading, I hove noticed that books that delve into one's personal lives and experiences appeal greatly to me. I find myself being more connected to the author and what he/she is trying to convey through the text. The book I have chosen is "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. The book is a memoir about the authors life experiences and a perspective of her family and all the struggles and successes they experienced. This critically acclaimed book is one that makes the reader truly contemplate the complexities of life.