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As the kids age into young adults, there parents start to argue more and the kids are mature enough to finally understand what is going on in those argument. Rex comes home drunk more frequently and gets into arguments with Rose Mary. Lori is the first to move out while Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen still live with Rex and Rose Mary. When Lori was in New York the family came to stay with her. Rex and Rose Mary would get into huge arguments that would cause a lot of commotion which made Lori kick them out. Rex and Rose Mary just fought too much and their kids were tired of them fighting so that's why they kicked them out.

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Towards the end of the book, the family has moved he New York and Jeannette was living on her own going to college an Lori was letting Rex live with her until she got fed up with him always drinking so she kicked him out and Rex and Rose Mary went back to being homeless. Jeannette end up needing money for college and Rex gives her $950 and she didn’t want to take it but they made her. A while later Rex sks Jeannette to come visit him and ring some alcohol and she does. When he arrives she ends up finding out that Rex is dying. Overall, even though the family didn’t have the best past, I think that the kids turned out fine. Rex and Rose Mary wrent the best parents all throughout the book but towards the end of the book you could tell that they really cared about their kids. After Rex die Jeanette decides its best for her to divorce her husband and start moving until she finds the right place where she can look up at the sky and see stars.

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After finishing these last sections of The Glass Castle i realized that in all honesty Rex and Rose can be good and bad parents. Rex wasn’t drinking when he was in jail and Rose was justness lost in a whole other world. Rex and Rose became even moreno filthy and they just didn’t care about anything, especially their kids. Rex and Rose decided to move to New York to be a family again. They proved time and time again that they were just so unstable and not good parents because they kept getting in trouble and getting kicked out where they were staying. In my opinion I think that they had the right idea to move to New York, just not the right mindset. They definitely tried to make things better, but they just made things worse in a way.

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Throughout this book Rex and Rose Mary change a lot gradually.

Rex in the beginning of the book played a big part in his children's lives. Now I am not saying he was an amazing father but he was active in their lives and they looked up to him a lot.

Rose Mary in the beginning of the book was a little more caring and loving and involved in her children's lives.

As their children started to grow up Rex and Rose Mary start to see that and I think that they started to feel like their children didn't need them anymore so they started to nott care anymore.

Rex towards the end of the book starts stealing money from the kids. starts drinking, starts lying, starts disappearing for days at a time, and lets his kids get sexually assaulted.

Rose Mary towards the end of the book starts to not care either. She lets Rex do all those things and doesn't do anything about it even when it is her own kids that are endangered.

Throughout the book Rex and Rose Mary change quite a bit I would say. Not that they were great parents in the beginning but at least they tried now they aren't even caring at all or acting like parents.

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From what I've read in the last two parts. Rose Mary and Rex hasn't really become better parents. Honestly. It's almost as if no change, but yet a bit better. The reason was maybe because since the kids weren't living with the parents anymore, things turned out to be okay and good for the the kids. But then the bad thing was that Rex and Rose Mary had left almost everything behind like always and came to find their kids again. And because of that. It means the parents hasn't really changed yet. Especially Rex, because Brian left his liquor in his apartment locked, but yet Rex used a screwdriver to take the door off its hinges and drunk every single bottle Brian had. But about how they changed? Rex and Rose Mary would call regularly and check up on the kids.

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After finishing the last and final parts of The Glass Castle I can say that Rex and Rose Mary Walls are extremely complicated characters and even more complicated parents. Once Lori and Jeannette moved to New York both parents just seem to give up completely, Rex was only sober when he was in jail and Rose Mary was living in her own little world focused only on herself, both forgetting that they still had two kids they had two raise. Brian slept on the porch under an inflatable raft. What kind of parent lets their kid move to the porch to sleep on the front porch because they wouldn’t fix the roof, not to mention Maureen was still staying with other more responsible parents at their houses. Rex got extremely mad at Lori for “stealing his children” so mad in fact that he claimed that he had disowned her after Lori offered to take Maureen and getting her into an excellent New York public school. In part 4 New York we get even more lovely examples of just how rude and selfish the Walls parents can be. After getting kicked out for being behind on rent and for setting a room on fire thanks to a sleeping Rex and his unhealthy smoking addiction they moved in with Lori and Maureen. That is till Rex couldn’t stop being an angry drunk who was always trying to start fights or somehow had money he’d gotten by hustling others that Brian had to take him in but only if Rex would live by his rules to which Rex replied “You’re the king of your own castle, and that’s the way it should be but it’ll be a chilly day in hell before I bow to my own son” (page 254), now Rex is sleeping in that run down white van they arrived in. Something about Rex and his huge egoistic attitude that just irks the daylights out of me. Oh and lets not forget how Rex loved to go to Lori’s apartment just to argue with Rose Mary and with the neighbors leading Lori to have to kick out her mother which made her very uncomfortable but offered to help as much as they could both parents denying any. Rex, Rose Mary, and Tinkle were all living in the van till one day it was left in a no parking zone and got towed away, making Rex and Rose Mary officially homeless as they spent that night sleeping on a park bench. When winter came neither parents had a real plan in place besides avoiding shelter and going to churches to sleep in pews unless they were all filled to which Rex had to go to a shelter while Rose Mary went to Lori crying about how hard life on the streets can be. Rose Mary refused to sell any of her property or jewelry and didn’t want a job of watching kids or the elderly because she felt like she wasted enough of her time doing that (not exactly sure who she was raisung because it seemed she was the one being taken care of more than her kids).Rex finally got sober, a place to live, and a job only for Rose Mary to persuade him out of a job so she wouldn’t be alone on the streets even though Rose Mary could have just lived with him but no “Upstate’s the sticks” (page 262). It’s crazy to me to believe just as selfish both of them can be. Now I can’t say they only do bad things, Rex got tuition money for Jeannette that he earned in poker games and Rose Mary encouraged her to use it for her education.

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In parts four and five of The Glass Castle, I still have the same perspective towards the Walls' way of parenting. They could still do way better with their parenting skills if they put themselves in their kids situations. Now that Jeanette, Lori, Maureen, and Brian are all grown up, they no longer want to live the way their parents are living. Lori and Jeanette have moved to New York City and start working to support their needs. They want Bryan and Maureen to move to New York as well since, their parents have found a temporary home but yet again, they are not very stable or responsible. I feel that Rose Mary and Rex are not happy to see their kids succeed, every time thy're on the verge of doing something great, they try to knock their hope and spirit down. I believe that if Rex and Rose Mary put more of their part in stability, responsibility, and in priorities their life would be so much easier if they just collaborated with each other, and their children.

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Rex and Rose Mary weren't the best at parenting but they taught their kids as how they thought was best for them.Rex was never the best example to follow since he was always very voliate, never stopped drinking even if it effected his family and could never keep a steady job. Many problems always happened throughout Jeanette's childhood , many which was effected because of her own father. They tell their kids they need to be independent yet they move in with them in New York. Rex and Rose Mary often went against what they said. But Rex and Rose Mary do however change in the end by being more support and understanding. R.I.P Rex , he was still the best father he could be to his kids.

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How I see as Rex and Rose Mary as parents is still the same not the best parents. The kids still go through stuff that no kid should go through. Their children go through abusive actions/behavior and also be being neglected. Also not to mention The arguing gets worse she tell how she feels about him later in the story on page 268 she says “Ive always been terrified I’d fall for a hard-drinking, hell-raising, charismatic scoundrels like you,Dad, but I’d wound up with a man which was exactly the opposite.” In my opinion things go downhill the more the story goes on

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In the finale ending of this book, The family really drifted apart and it was hard on all of them. But during all this chaos and battle between the parents and the children. Even after all the brawling, both Rex and Rose Mary still wanted to see their children and still wanted to be a parent. Especially during the hard times of letting the kids know the truth about his recent diagnosed with a rare incurable disease. I think in the end of this, they both regret not doing everything they could and regret their decisions they made throughout their childhood but they made amazing memories good and bad that they will never forget. Honestly with that I personally think they were good parents and taught their children very important lessons throughout, even though he did not complete the glass castle that they all had dreamed of, both Rex and Rose Mary tried their best at parenting in their own unique ways.

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In the 4th part of the book, What I think that Rex and Rose Mary Could do better as parents is, what they should have done earlier in Jeannette, Brian, Lori and mostly Maureen’s lives. They should have been more involved with Maureen when she was in her younger age so that she wouldn’t have become so dependent on them. Rose Mary decides that it is time for Maureen to go own her own and she kicks Maureen out of there abandoned home and Maureen ended up stabbing her. Rex calls Maureen a “lost puppy” and that she had “faulty wiring” on page 276, But this could have been different if he had been there for Maureen like he had been there for the rest of them during their childhood. If both parents had taken a better part in being in Maureen’s life then maybe her fate would have been different. She may have ended up also going to an Ivy League College or just found another passion to pursue in.

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Rex and Rose Mary  keep telling their children that they will change for them and make a better lifestyle. When Jeannette and her sibling had already moved out and were living in  New York they felt like everything was going fine and maybe their parents had changed. They were wrong because whe jeannette had turned the radio on one day she heard about a van that had broken down leaving clothes and furniture all over the freeway. She realized that was her parents because her mom had told her later that day, just when everything was going fine Rex decides to tell his kids they're moving back in with them to be a united family again clearly the kids don't want that. Although Rex and Rose Mary say they have changed they haven't because they keep trying to ask their kids for money, Eventually Rex gets sick and passes away. My final opinion on Rex and Rosemary is that they aren't the typical parents you'd want but they did teach their kids that no matter the situation you can survive in some way shape or form.

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This part shows the gradual increase in the ability to parent that Rex and Rose Mary possess. They end up moving to New York to be with their children, and they mostly keep to themselves. They also begin to put their lives back together. They don’t screw their children over for money anymore, and are making great progress in finding a place for themselves. Rex even pays for Jeannette’s tuition (pg. 264-265). They start to make amends for all the crap that they put their children through, and it shows in their relationships.

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As the kids age into young adults, there parents start to argue more and the kids are mature enough to finally understand what is going on in those argument. Rex comes home drunk more frequently and gets into arguments with Rose Mary. Lori is the first to move out while Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen still live with Rex and Rose Mary. When Lori was in New York the family came to stay with her. Rex and Rose Mary would get into huge arguments that would cause a lot of commotion Which made Lori kick them out.

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There’s something I find interesting about the Walls parents this time around. They’re arguably better than they were before. Perfect? No, of course not. They still do some things wrong. Crashing at their children’s new homes for free and refusing to follow their rules isn’t all that great. Rose Mary does this by making a huge mess of Lori’s apartment. But, honestly, other than that there’s nothing downright bad that they did in this particular episode. Of course, this doesn’t erase any of what they’ve done in the past nor does it excuse it, but this is interesting.

It seems as though creating a distance between themselves and their parents has improved the relationship between the Walls family. Not perfectly of course, after all Maureen practically goes mad upon being kicked out of the house and no longer talks to the rest of the family. Getting out and having their own places, their own families, their own jobs, has significantly improved the relationship between this broken family. Sometimes there are people that you can really only handle in small doses, and it’s clear that for their children Rex and Rose Mary are two of those people. They come together as a family on Christmas and Thanksgiving, Rex and Rose Mary call their children to check in every now and again, and there’s even what feels like a moment of reconcilement between Jeannette and Rex before Rex passes away. With some distance this family handles itself better.

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In my opinion in the end of The Glass Castle. Has changed, I have a different perspective of people who are homeless, and live on the streets. Knowing that not all people who are homeless, are homeless just because, but that some actually choose to be. And my view towards on Rex and Rose Mary on being parents has changed, as much as they were different from other parents. Rex and Rose Amy had many secrets and always went back to the same old arguments. And always struggled to keep a home and job. And they always brought there problems to their children and always wanted their life`s to be an adventure and not be so normal like other families. But things that Rex and Rose Mary do well is that they try to give their children much they can. A thing they could do better is let their children be and let them experience life on their own and not interfere much with their life`s.

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Rex can be a good father but on the other hand he also has a problem when it comes to drinking. When Rex and Rose move to New York when they first get there and go see the kids the first thing he does is pull out his flask. Meanwhile, Rose is telling the kids about all the fun adventures that they had and all the fun places the went. Throughout the book the further it goes on the worse his drinking problem gets. Even though he tries not to show the kids all of it, the effects of the alcohol take their toll.

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The role that Rex and Rose Mary have in their childrens' lives changes during these last two parts of the novel. The Walls children are no longer heavily affected by what their parents do because Rex and Rose Mary have no control over their lives anymore, although their parents had been losing that since they were kids. The parents do become more supportive and accepting of all of their kids' decisions to move to NYC, even moving their themselves.
Of course there are always things I think the parents could improve on, like caring enough about Maureen to recognize her issues and get her proper help. Other than Maureen, the relationships between the kids and their parents seem to have simmered out. Overall, I think these parts have showcased some of Rex and Rose Mary's most genuine parenting moments since the beginning of the novel. This including Rex wanting to help Jeannette by reading all of her college books and the ending Thanksgiving scene where Rose Mary enjoys time and dinner with her family for likely one of the first times.

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For the last sections I want to mainly talk about Rex and his change in parenting style. In the beginning of the book we get a hint, right of the bat, that Rex is a different type of parent. Not that Rose Mary is normal, just that Rex is more unique. He cares but in a way that's sporadic, I wouldn’t even call it tough love, it's a little rougher than that i’d say. In the beginning of the book he is a little more protective over the children, and a little more present. He isn’t sitting at home waiting on them to get home from school but he is in their life influencing their decisions. In this section when Jeannette, Lori and Brian are settling into their New York life, it’s almost like Rex wants to distance himself from them. He doesn’t go a see Jeannette's new apartment, and he doesn’t mind leaving Lori’s apartment when things get tense. He is slowly losing the fight in him as the section goes on. He always remained in their lives in different ways, just not a prominent part in their decisions anymore. When he died he didn't want a big scene, he went peacefully in the hospital bed. I think that really contradicts how Rex lived his life, but it was also exactly what all the kids needed.

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In this section Jeannette buys her dad all these nice thing but all her dad gets her is random stuff off the streets. To me dad's are suppose to be the ones taking care of the children and buying them nice things. Her father could never keep a job so he couldn't buy her nice things like she could. When he did have a job, he would spend it on beer. I think he should keep a job and have money but to give him credit he stopped drinking for a while. Now Jeannette lives in a home with her husband, but her parents stay on the street because that's what they want to do, and they chose to do that. they never got to build that glass castle

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After reading the few final pages of the Glass Castle my thoughts on Rex and Rose Mary is that they changed quite bit when they came to New York with Jeannette, Brian, and Lori.

Individually Rex hasn't changed much with his habits which has gotten him to the hospital, but some redeeming features is that they now own a place and aren't living with Lori, and when Rex gave money to help Jeanette, I felt  that when he said "When have I ever let you down" on his final weeks before he died I felt that those words he spoke were true, because he helped Jeanette with her college payment.

My thoughts on Rose Mary is that she really hasn't changed much through out this, besides the fact that she is doing better now without the kids, and taking care of herself.

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Evaluating Rex and Rose Mary as parents and life without their children in their care as a whole throughout the rest of the book, I would say there was not much change.Rex is not role model to his children for example,he takes Jeanette to the bar where she attack by a man named Robbie just for a couple bucks.He possibly ruins Lori chance to go to New York by destroying all the work she has done on her Shakespeare sculpture.Not to mention the fact that had stolen from Brian,Lori,and Jeanette savings for alcohol or essential going out the bar.Rose Mary stills refuses to get job and even qualified to become a teacher but desert that for her passion of the arts.She also try's to convince Jeanette to stay in Welch with all her friends and family;Welch being her whole life.Presuming that Jeanette would not missed and jealousy arises because Rose Mary is stuck where she's at.Did Rose Mary and Rex Walls unconvental parenting help mold who Jeanette is today?Yes,yes it did.But did that work for all the Walls children?No it didn't.

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In this part of the novel Jeanette explains that she has been writing letters from New York to her brother, Brian. She has been writing to him about how good it is there and how "sweet" the life is there. She wants to persuade him to move to New York with her and her sister, Lori. He writes back and tells her that things in Welch are going downhill. He explains that Rex is always drunk and Rosemary is completely living in her own world. He has moved his bed to the porch and wants to know when the soonest he can come live with them is. This shows the lack of parenting skills that Rex and Rosemary have. It is sad to think that a junior in high school  had to build temporary walls on his porch because the roof in his bedroom collapsed. I feel that if the Walls' parents need to understand the way that the kids are living their lives and it is definitely not like the average child's life. If they weren't so focused on themselves then there kids wouldn't have to go through things like this.

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After reading the Glass Castle my opinion had changed throughout the course of this book because Rex and Rosemary have hidden secrets money and choose to live a life full of adventure instead of being stable in a house with warm beds and roof over their heads.Should a parent intervene in the lives of their children? Rex and Rosemary affect their children by depending on them when their were struggling being out in the streets of New York City because of their choice to be  homeless.I believe the child that had suffered the most was Maureen because of the Rex and Rosemary Parenting skills of neglect, and response ability made her rely on others to take care of her; I blame Rex and Rosemary for making their children suffer as kids and as adults for believing their foolish ways of living and not taken action for their lives.  If Rex and Rosemary change their selfish ways and provide the family with a stable home I believe that the their children would have stayed and flourished in Welch instead of leaving their parents and heading to New York City after their junior year.The Walls children Decided to get away from their parents, but after 3 years their parents follow them to intervene in their children’s lives.

Rosemary is confusing as a parent because she pretends that life's an adventure and doesn't care about her children; all Rosemary cares about is her self-esteem and her potential  for her art career.  Lori allowed her parents to live with her and Maureen  when Rex and Rosemary were kicked out, because of their own selfish reasons, from a boarding house and a flop house. Lori saved herself from insanity by telling  her mother to leave pg (252-254) and Rosemary moved backed into their white van with her husband. Jeannette suggest ideas for her mother to move back to West Virginia or back to Phoenix at a coffee shop and use her resources to get back on her feet but Rosemary  quotes “I’ve spent my life taking care of other people ;now it's time to take care of me” pg (258-259)  .I believe Rosemary is addicted to adventure and living in the streets because after Rex  battled tuberculosis and he received a job as a maintenance man. Rex had a stable home ,a job, and was staying sober longer than the detox in Phoenix. Rosemary convinced Rex to quit and go back to being homeless back in the city and the hardships of the city forced Rex to go back to drinking alcohol pg(262). Rosemary needs help I believe she is a manipulating person ,weak and she will follow Rex dragging down the rest of the family with her wants and desires. Rosemary lied to her children and needed them to take care of her because of her own greed. She owns land in Texas, a house in Phoenix, a two carat diamond ring and wanted Jeannette to borrow  a million dollars from her fiance to buy her uncle Jim”s land in Texas.  Rosemary  wanted to have it for the family and was disappointed in Jeannette for asking her for a favor pg(272-273). I believe Rex was destroying his family from the alcoholic consumption, it open my eyes to see that Rosemary caused more physical damage to her children.

Rex was not the best father but he changed ;I respected him through this part of the Glass Castle because in bad situations people are forced to change while rex was in the hospital learning and pondering about Mortality and the nature of the cosmos and the chaos theory and believing there's a god pg (260-261) and when recovered he a stable a job as a repairman , lived in a apartment and stop drinking alcohol but it never lasted long. I wish Rex would accepted and take the initiative to change on his own. He should have accepted his presents that Jeannette give him on Christmas instead of leaving Lori”s apartment pg (262-263). I believe Rex was trying for what he had even through he quit his job he helped Jeannette  finish school by helping her pay the rest of her school by playing poker he might have not provided as a parent but he wanted his little girl to secede in a education  pg (264-265). Rex may have lived the life he wanted being married to Rosemary and lived providing for his children but his actions throughout this book were unacceptable as a parent. I felt bad when Rex passed away from his rare tropical disease because how would Rosemary , Brain , lori and Jeannette react without their father in the world. Rex tried his best even through he struggle with his flaw of alcohol  he was very smart and hoped he had help Jeannette before died two week later pg(277-279).

Rex and Rosemary are not ideal parents but I believe through this book that all families  struggle it doesn't matter if you are rich,or poor or want to be homeless Jeannette , brain , Lori , Maureen have learned life lessons with their family even though the Wall’s children left home at a young age. Their life showed them how they are going to be parents in the future from life lessons they learned as children. The only thing I wished Rex and Rosemary did differently was try to helped their children more than themselves. Rex and Rosemary have different qualities as parents some good and bad but that relationship had destroyed the family as the children grow up a parent role changes. What do people call a family? Rex and Rosemary were a family thick and thin even thorough their children had lives of their own; a family always stay together and a family relationship grows.

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My opinion about Rex and Rose Mary Walls has not changed very much after reading part 3 of The Glass Castle. I still see both Walls parents as irresponsible and selfish people who put their wants before their children’s needs. In my last evaluative paragraph I focused more on Rex but I think I’ll discuss my thoughts on Rose Mary this time. Rose Mary is a strange character with many flaws in her personality. I see Rose Mary as a very selfish person and she shows this mainly when dealing with her children an example being when Jeannette and Brian find a diamond ring and not just any old fake diamond it was a real two-carat diamond ring and instead of selling it like Jeannette and Brian intended so they could have food and pay off their house Rose Mary slips the ring on her finger and says it’s her replacement wedding ring. Rose Mary knew good and well what the ring was worth and instead her self-esteem is more important than her kids eating. There was also another incident that comes to mind regarding Rose Mary being selfish, during this time Rex was disappearing for a few days on end and very little money was coming in so little in fact the Jeannette resorted to scavenging for food from the trash cans at school. One night in particular while all the kids were sitting around trying to not think about food Rose Mary kept ducking under the blanket and when Brian noticed he asked if she was chewing something to which Rose Mary lies and said her teeth were hurting and then said she was just moving her jaw to increase circulation, Brian yanks the blanket back to uncover huge family-sized Hershey chocolate bars that Rose Mary had eaten half of without sharing any with her kids. Rose Mary says its not her fault she’s a sugar addict just like how Rex is an alcoholic -yeah like that justifies her actions at all- Brian snatches the chocolate bar and divided it equally among the kids. Rose Mary should be ashamed of herself! Sneaking food while her children are starving.

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I think throughout the book you realize that Rex wants to be a good dad and you see him trying but i don’t think he really knows how to be a good dad. I think Rose Mary is more caring and she loves her kids but Rex just gets her in bad moods sometimes and makes her angry, at some points it almost seems like she just doesn’t care. Like for example when she was talking about how she lost one of her children when they were just a baby she said it didn’t really affect her. I overall think they both try their best to be good parents but just don’t know how and considering they don’t have much money it’s hard to do anything especially if they don’t have a stable living space.

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This part really shows how ineffective these two are at parenting their children. They are way more worried about themselves than their children. They don’t even try to be good parents. They are irresponsible and they spend money on themselves rather than what would benefit the family. When Jeannette and Lori offer to help Rose Mary with the budget, she does not let them, even though the way she is spending money ends up with their house literally falling apart. In addition, this gets so bad that their children are actually leaving them to go to New York. (pg 240-241)

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In this part of the book, I don’t think that Rex is all that great of a parent. He does have good moments, but he is most of the time always drunk. He has gotten a lot worse about drinking. Rosemary isn’t that great of a parent either. The kids aren’t well taken care of at all. They are pretty much neglected and malnourished.

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In this part of the book Rex and Rose Mary become okay with there kids being independent and I feel like if anything this would have been a great time for them to start supporting there kids and being there for them more and maybe start looking for jobs. But instead they do the exact opposite.

Rex starts stealing money from the kids and starts to lie and loses Jeannette's trust all together and just allows one of his kids to be sexually assaulted. He is doing the exact opposite of what a dad should do but even worse.

To make all of this even more worse Rose Mary didn't do anything about all of this or care what so ever.

Also Rex and Rose Mary's words don't line up with there actions at all. They told Jeannette and Lori that they could move to New York but they did things to make them stay.

My feelings towards Rex and Rose Mary have changed very much after reading this part of the book this part of the book makes me so disappointed and sad and angry like in the being at least they somewhat cared but now they just don't care at all and in the beginning how they were living was not that bad it was there choice and just a different way of parenting but now they aren't even parenting at all and treating there kids like nothing and if I was one of there children I would not even look at them as my parents, real parents don't do that or even think about treating there kids like that.

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Rex and Rosemary Walls still continue to not be the best of parents to their kids. Throughout part three of The Glass Castle, they still continue to put their kids in situations that are too hard to manage. For example, whenever Jeanette and Brian find a two-carat diamond ring outside of their yard, they tell their mom that they should cash it to buy food, but yet again, she doesn't think about her kids, but herself by, insisting that they keep it so she can replace it with her wedding ring. Yet, knowing that her kids have been starving and digging through the trash cans for food and clothes, she doesn't keep in mind their needs. Also, when Rose Mary renewed her teaching license she decides to quit teaching so she can resume her artistic life. On the other hand, Rex still continues to abuse his alcohol consumption. Rex does not know how to handle money. So whenever Rose Mary and Lori leave for the summer, Jeanette decides that she is going to stick to a budget so she can provide for both Brian and Maureen. Her and Lori had planned to earn money to buy Maureen a gift for her seventh birthday. Rex keeps pleading her to give him money, so she gives him thirty dollars which he spends on pool, and then Jeanette feels used. Rex also steals money from their piggy bank that Lori and Jeanette were gonna use to escape from Welch, which makes Lori very upset and she stops speaking to her father. In conclusion, both Rex and Rosemary are not good at parenting due to irresponsibility, and because they don't try to improve their life, or the life of their children.

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My personal opinion is that I don’t like Rex although he has a job and “works hard” he isn’t responsible at all what so ever. He works and gets payed but once he gets payed instead of going and buying stuff his family needs he goes and spends the money at bars and stuff to drink. I know he has an alcoholism problem but it’s not fair to his family to go through all of this because he isn’t responsible enough! The kids go through a lot by having to be moving around all the time they feel helpless because every-time they get somewhere new they’re scared to make friends because they know they won’t be there for long.

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In chapter 4 of section 3 I feel as if Jeanette’s parents are hypocrites. I feel this way because they tell her to stand up for what she believes in but when she does she just gets in trouble. Whenever Erma was talking bad about the Africans American community. Jeanette talks back because her new friend was an african american. Her mother gets mad at her for talking back but her parents always told her to stand up for herself but right there they didn the opposite and discouraged it.

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In this section of the book I think Rex and Rose were not the best as parent's. Why leave your children with someone that is abusive if your not supporting her thoughts. A part of the book that showing that Brian is abused is on pg. 148 "Do you think she ever did something to Dad like what she did to Brian?”The person that is taking care of them while Rex and Rose are away is Erma there grandma not the best person to leave your child with. Also when they move town to town can be stressful and is irresponsible for there actions and cannot handle it that's why they move place to place and that's not right they should fix there problems not run away.

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In this section of the book, the Walls move once again, by moving this makes it hard on the kids to finally call a place “home” and having real friends they can be with. While leaving with Grandma Erma, the four of them lived in the basement in the freezing cold with one bed mattress sharing one blanket. They were also not provided with the most appropriate material of clothing. While staying there they had a incident that lead to more questions and making them once again leave to find a new home. They end up in a very small apartment which is not the best conditions for the winter. Food is another thing that has always been a problem throughout this book, having them rummage through the trash cans just to find a decent enough leftover that someone had tossed away, also money has always been a huge factor in the Walls family. These are the many reasons why I would say that Rex and Rose Mary Walls both need to find themselves and fix the reasons why this family is always hitting rock bottom multiple times.

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My thoughts on Rex and Rosemary in this part of the book have changed a lot.

The things I want to point out in the book right now is about Rex is treating the kids by stealing their money and using it, lie about the fact that he did steal it, takes Jeannette out to the bar to swindle or bet cash out of people but makes Jeannette deal with the sexual harassment, and how he never comes home and comes up with excuses.

My thoughts on Rose Mary Walls is kinda mixed because I'm glad she worked so that the family could eat but sorta disappointed by how she fusses about things like her work or how she feels, and having the kids make her go to work. I'm also kinda fed up with her reasons for why she does nothing with Rex because of her excuses and beliefs, letting things happening to them like Rex taking the money that she and her family made.

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In some instances Rex can be a good father figure but other times not so much. Like when Rex and Rose go to Phoenix to get the rest of their stuff they leave the kids with Erma. When they got back from Phoenix the kids were in the bed and all they could hear was Rex stomping down the stairs to yell at them. They tried to explain what had happened but he just wouldn't listen. Why would he not even give them the chance to get a few words in to explain themselves? Then he leaves them down stairs alone in silence, He should have at least listened for a second.

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I harp on Rex Walls a lot, and frankly it’s because I’m fascinated by how this man’s mind works, but I’ve decided to focus on Rose Mary for a change. Rose Mary is an interesting person, “eccentric” doesn’t even begin to describe it. She’s a prime example of what a broken marriage can do to a person. Does that make her innocent when it comes to the treatment of her children? Oh no, not by a long shot. What Rose Mary has gone through in her life is awful, nobody deserves to be put through what she’s had to endure. However, just because somebody has hurt you doesn’t mean you get to hurt somebody else. Especially if they had no hand in what was done to you, and if they’re your own children. Her actions are inexcusable.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: she is irresponsible. Rose Mary refuses to get a job despite being perfectly capable of doing so. In fact, she quits her teaching job after having her certificate renewed. This job is one of the few things keeping their family fed. Her own children recognize this, and beg her to not quit her job. She asks Lori and Jeannette why don’t they get jobs, why does she have to be the responsible one? Mind you, Jeanette is only twelve when this happens. The only reason she quits is so she can have more free time to herself. When the children find her a diamond ring, she refuses to sell it despite that being their plan. She says she wants to keep it. When their food is infested with maggots she tells her children to get over it and eat it anyway. She’s dismissive, irresponsible, and selfish.

I hate to sound so unsympathetic towards both Rex and Rose Mary whenever discussing these sort of things. Truth be told I do understand what they’ve gone through, and I understand their experiences are what have shaped them into who they are now. I also understand they can be kind, and that they have done a few good things for their children. However, their own traumas and the few good things they’ve done never have and never will excuse their actions. I know people who have gone through similar things to Rose, and they’re nothing like her. Same goes for Rex. They’re kind, caring, empathetic, they learn from their mistakes, unlike the Walls’ parents who seem to be stuck in a cycle. Experience is not an excuse for bad actions.

Rose Mary’s irresponsibility, selfishness, and dismissive attitude of her children’s problems is a serious issue. If you are to be a parent, you need to be responsible, be willing to make sacrifices, and be willing to listen to your child when there’s something wrong. These are traits that Rose Mary lacks, and for this reason I don’t believe she’s a good parent.

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In this chapter on the book Jeannette's family stays in for a "few days" at her dads grandma house. Throughout this chapter Jeannette explains her experience while being at Erma's home. A lot of stuff happens , much that I wasn't expecting. Erma lives with two other people who is Stanley and her husband. In this paragraph Jeannette's parents leave her and her siblings to drive back to Phoenix. They are told that they are teaching them to be independent and be capable of not depending on anyone but themselves. Rex and Rose Mary aren't the worst parents then just try to teach their kids how to never depend on anyone else , but they also aren't great on the fact they left them alone with family members they barely met and know nothing of.

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In this section of the book I think Rex and Rose were not the best as parent's. Why leave your children with someone that is abusive if your not supporting her thoughts. A part of the book that showing that Brian is abused is on pg. 148 " The person that is taking care of them while Rex and Rose are away is Erma there grandma not the best person to leave your child with. Also when they move town to town can be stressful and is irresponsible for there actions and cannot handle it that's why they move place to place and that's not right they should fix there problems not run away.

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During part 3 of the novel, I felt Rex and Rose Mary's parenting style and treatment of their children only decline from part 2. Rex's drinking has clearly gotten worse, as he disappears for days at a time and must be searched for by Jeanette until she finds him in a local bar. Rose Mary's behavior has also become more baffling, exemplified when she began eating a hidden candy bar in front of her starving kids until they caught and took it from her. They are also both neglectful towards their kids, seeing as how they deny that Brian was molested by Erma or Jeanette was assaulted by Robbie and move on like it was meaningless.

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Part 2 summarizied as a whole .Throughout the chapters the Walls family homing situations never change , they would  stay in one place finally making a home from themselves but would have to move unexpectedly .The fiancially the Walls don't have a stable income due to Rex walls spending habits from gambling and his alcohol consumption.Later Rose Mary gets a teaching job because the lack of money coming through but dosen't last long  due to her not being ambitions about teaching  but to painting.The Walls children get a job to support themselves and their parents hoping it would make a difference.They face many hardships from the children at there school to the cold winter nights.I believe that Rex and Rose Mary know that their bad parents but don't want to believe it and that everything is fine.