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Why do people share their stories?

People, like Jeanette Walls, share their story to inspire others and to bring attention to certain problematic situations. Walls lived through a rough childhood but still managed to break the poverty cycle. Stories, like this memoir, raise attention to how serious poverty is, and inspires others who are living a similar life that Jeanette did.

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What forces are motivating the characters?

The Children in the walls family are getting motivated to get out of the house and get educated on their own due to their agitation and pain towards their dads alcohal addiction, and morals in life.

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1. How do your values alter your perceptions of the text?

My values of money and financial suscess as im reading this text, becomes more grateful , while reading this book my perspective on poverty becomes way more empahetic and I start to feel guilty of all the stuff my family has given to me.

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2.What was the work’s original intended audience? To what extent are you similar or different from that audience?

Jeanette Walls intended audience of the Glass Castle was Aimed for people who havent been brought to the concern of the severity of Social class and its affects it has on people on a day to day basis. I believe I am part of the intended audience because I have not ever struggled with financial limitations, and before reading this novel I havent been brought to the attention of the harsh consequences of poverty that humans have to live with.

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How are class differences presented in the work? Are the characters aware or unaware of the economic and social forces that affect their lives?

In the Novel The Glass Castle the characters struggle with extreme social class limitations, as the children of the walls family grow older they start to realize how major their circumstances are and how desperate they need money.

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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. The authors tone is eyeopening and harsh, the author uses overwhelming diction to reflect the meaning of bringing readers attention to poverty, and certain life crisis. In the story the author uses a recurring pattern of Jeannettes father putting his family in danger which ultimatley causes them to constanty evacuate their home. This pattern conveys Jeannettes rough childhood growing up and their famiy not having a stable place to call home.

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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.

Give context for your quote. What was happening in the story that made this quote significant? Who was speaking? When Jeannette was speaking about her living situation growing up, she mentioned how she used old refrigerator boxes as beds to sleep in and said "They made going to bed seem like an adventure" (Walls,52). This is significant because it shows Jeannette was grateful for what she had and wasnt bothered by the coplications that came with her family not having a lot of money.

Why did this quote stand out to you? This quote stood out to me because it showed a big part of Jeannettes personality. This quote revealed Jeannette made the best out of situatons, overall the quote inspired me to be better of making best out of situations and to stop taking simple things for granted.

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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

Social class was a present issue in Jeannettes life, growing up jeannette always had to leave her home because her parents couldnt afford it, they also couldnt afford many necesiities and she struggled with money growing up.

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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!

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced? I have learned that Jeannettes family suffers with money and poverty, and do not have a stable place to call home.

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3.How might readers in different time periods or of different ages interpret the text?

Readers in the time period growing up at the same time as Jeannette probably interperet The Glass Catle as traumatizing, and a hard book to read mentally. I believe they probably have had a similar childhood along with Jeanette and reading the Glass Castle might bring them back bad memories.