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2) The economic conditions that the characters in The Glass Castle are terrible. They rarely have any money, are constantly living in poor conditions, moving constantly. They are constantly facing financial hardships throughout the book. Them being at the bottom makes it hard to get out of that position too as it makes it harder to get jobs get a house and live comfortably as seen in the book.

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After Rex ruins Christmas, Jeanette explains, "When dad goes crazy, we all have our own ways of shutting off, and that was what we did last night" (Walls 115). This is a really good example of how Rex affects their lives, how he just does this and now that the kids have matured they can almost see that he is almost like a plague. Whenever he it around nothing good happens. While seeing Jeanette grow up we can see how her mentality changes towards things, although she has a soft spot for her father, he is starting to push that boundary. What she says here was something I have been questioning for a while now, how do they cope with what their father does. Why do they allow him to continue to do this, why do they stay.

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2) The chunk we read this week we see what motivates characters, the best example would obviously be Jean. She was essentially thrown into the deep end when forced to basically become a parent and look after her siblings after her mother left for college. We see her take up the responsibilities of a parent more of a single parent as Rex was no help at all and was more of a liability. Something unconscious that motivates Jean would be her love for her father as he was ale to scrape some money from her even tho they had so little. She has an internal dialogue reflecting on how she hates how her father can get stuff out of her because of her love for him, because it directly interferes with the amount of money she has to provide for her siblings.

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2.) After reading my values haven't changed drastically, but I can say for some reason it makes me want to be more independent and want to help my mom more around the house just to make it easier on her.

3.) Reading this book in different times can really affect how the reader views certain things in the book. For example if people in the 80's or 90's were to read it things would seem more normal as most people had a looser way of parenting where as parents of today would question and not really understand why these kids are as free as they are. It may also change how closely or how differently they compare themselves to characters in the book.

5.) Some of my early memories as a kid were growing up they were really good as I was outside a lot and we did a lot of exploring and tried out a lot of new things which makes me relate and have a more positive view on how the kids in the book are doing stuff.

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As the Walls family starts their journey to Phoenix Jeannette notes how, "In the pitch black night, there is nothing to look at but the road ahead, lit by the car's headlights" (Walls 90). This really stuck out to me because this represents they way they have been living this entire time. They live life without looking back, this can also be seen in the way the family members act throughout the book. They have always lived with the "cup half full" mindset, this is alluded to in another part of the book where they talk about how it was one of their family rules to pretend they were on a big adventure while living life. With this it made me wonder if they didn't look back because they didn't care or because it would hurt them. Its not like they lived in the best conditions, especially with all the arguing in this section it makes me think this could be a potential way of coping for them. Or maybe its them just holding on to hope for better days.

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Education was heavily talked about and some takes were made by the mother, as well as showing how it can impact us as people. While reading we see how the mother thinks that giving kids freedom in the classroom motivates them and actually results in better test score for kids and especially ones that were struggling before which is sort of controversial take between parents and other teachers. The father also has some views on the subject as we learn he makes Jeanette do extra stuff with her homework and makes her learn extra stuff as he thinks that the things they are learning about are useless. Lastly we see how education effects Jeanette and her sister, Jeanette likes helping her mom grade and kinda likes school. We also find out her sister is naturally super smart and gifted and that is where she gets to shine.

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1.) I would say this week the book was more of a window into another persons experiences. I was able to peek into Jeanette's life where her parents got into huge fights, and how she and her siblings just pretend its not happening as they're way of copping with it.

2.) My family is different from the one in the story we have never lost anyone super immediately close as the one in the Glass Castle did, which we are extremely lucky and thankful.

3.) I got to learn about a different group this week as we peered into the group of teachers a little. We got to see that even within the group of teachers they could hold hostility against each other and also just how they can interact with each other even if it was only briefly mentioned.

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When arguing with her mother about going to work she remarks, "If you want to be treated like a mother, you should act like one" (Walls 219). In this argument and even leading up to it we can notice a change in Jeans thoughts, instead of being the cup half full always looking for the best in people girl we are used to we meet this cold realistic Jean. This is most likely due to her maturing and realizing what her parents put her through and she as well as the other kids are fed up and this is a great example of that. Its also a great example of how her psychological state changes due to factors that being her parents pushing her around and testing boundaries.

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Choose 3 Formalist Lens Questions to respond to. Your responses should thoroughly respond to the prompt in at least three sentences.

2.) We can see how the authors word choice shows how she feels about certain characters, the best example being her father as she uses words like handsome and just the way she describes him makes him look like a hero. We can see just how much her father means to her with the diction chosen.

6.) The author does a really good job of using emotion to in a way sway the reader into feeling a certain way. For example when she is recalling her childhood it makes us imagine that we are right there, she also makes us feel that very strong emotion of love and trust of her father. But later makes us question if her complete trust and just herself is safe while describing things about him like his smell of cigarettes and alcohol. Also bringing up things like how he gets drunk and is not very smart with money and has a tendency to get loud and reckless when really drunk.

10.) I know it is still very early in the story, and I also missed some reading days but I would like to know why the father acts like he does, and maybe how they got into such financial trouble. Also how many times have they moved to the point where the kids aren't worried about, and treat it like a regular occurrence.

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Find a quote in this chunk that stood out to you. Please also include a picture or GIF to further describe this quote.

When Jeans father was telling her a story of how he fought a demon he shared with her, "That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run" (Walls 37).

This quote stood out to me because we can see how much not only her father means to her but how that specific sentence affected her and her mentality in life. We get to see how much her father means to her because of how much that stuck to her, we also get to see how that affected her mindset in life as we get examples of her using it earlier in the book and how she almost seems fearless in some parts.

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Choose at least one of the following social issues that were present in this reading chunk. Discuss how this social force was present in a characters life. (Your response should be at least 5-6 sentences).

Social Class

Race/Ethnicity

Religion

Education

Culture

Health

Political Landscape

Health was a major part of this as we get to peak into Jeanette's experience in the hospital and how her family treats health. In the hospital her father does not like her being there at all or what they want to do. Another example of how her family treats health would be when she gets a pretty deep flesh wound while climbing a rusty fence, another mother gets worried and thinks she should get it checked out, Jeans mom says a just a cut and she should continue playing like normal. With these examples we get to see that they aren't to worried about getting hurt or dealing with injuries whether that's because of morals or financial reasons they are super laid back when it comes to health.

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In what ways was this chunk a window or a mirror? Use the following questions to guide your response, but really we want to hear your personal thoughts and reactions to this chunk!

I do share some similarities with Jannet in her early childhood in the sense that I was always in any conditions with my family and had a really great time. I was also a really laid back low maintenance child.

My family was different from the one in the book in a couple different ways. I was lucky enough to not have to move as many times as they did, my parents did not hate the government either, in fact my father served in the military so we respected them(doctors, veterans ect.). It was also a little similar in the sense that we all had a really close bond.

After reading the first couple pages of the book I got to learn how some people who are homeless or maybe don't have much actually enjoy the way that they live as it fulfills them, and I never really got to understand that the way that the story allowed my to understand it.

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Social Class was heavily mentioned throughout this section of the book. Most notably when Jeanette was bullied for being poor after moving again into her fathers parents house, she gets made fun of for the clothes she wears. Again it isn't directly mentioned but shown how their lives were affected for example the food they had to eat at school were lard sandwiches, although they hated it they had to eat it as it was all they had.

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This chunk was more of a door as I was able to connect with the fact that Jean was put into this parenting role and had to step of for her sibling. I had a similar experience taking care of my brother and cousins when I was younger. I was also able to connect with the fact that I was getting used a little bit because of a soft spot I had for someone, it wasn't to the extent we saw in the book but it just reminded me of my experiences. Another thing that happened that I was able to connect to would be the mom leaving for a longer period of time, my father used to have to travel pretty far from home for work which put a lot of the parenting pressure on my mom. I was young but it was harder since she still had work and had to take care of me.

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This chunk was more of a window chunk, because as a reader we got to see her experiences being bullied and eating meals with very little nutritional value. I do not really share to many similarities with Jean in this chunk, as a kid I was lucky enough to have meals rich in nutritional value and never got bullied to the extent she did.

My family was a little different from the one in the book as we never had to stay with my grandparents and they didn't like how they did in the book.

I did get to learn in this chunk about people who had to eat not the best food due to financial reasons. Also got to learn a little bit about how the people who got bullied felt, and how they dealt with it and their reaction to it.