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‘“Everyone has something good about them,’ she said. ‘you have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.’ / ‘Oh yeah?’ I said. ‘How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?’ / ‘Hitler loved dogs,’ Mom said without hesitation” (Walls 144).

" 'You're ashamed of us?' Lori called after him. Dad just kept walking" (Walls 181).

"If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't" (Walls 184).

"At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn't keeping my promise that I'd protect her-the promise I'd made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she'd been born. I couldn't get her what she needed most-hot baths, a warm bed, steaming bowls of Cream of Wheat before school in the morning-but I tried to do little things"(Walls 206).

"Mom's head snapped up. 'You can't talk to me like that,' she said. 'I'm your mother.'/ 'If you want to be treated like a mother,' I said, 'you should act like one' "(Walls 219).

“Things usually work out in the end.” “What if they don’t?” “that just means you haven’t come to the end yet" (Walls 259).

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets" (Walls 270).

I just stood there looking from one distorted face to another, listening to this babble of enraged squabbling as the members of the Walls family gave vent to all their years of hurt and anger, each unloading his or her own accumulated grievances and blaming the others for allowing the most fragile one of us to break into pieces" (Walls 276).

But despite all the hell-raising and destruction and chaos he had created in our lives, I could not imagine what my life would be like – what the world would be like – without him in it" (Walls 279).

“I’d never met a man I would rather spend time with. I loved him for all sorts of reasons: he cooked without recipes; he wrote nonsense poems for his nieces; his large, warm family had accepted me as one of their own. And when I first showed him my scar, he said it was interesting" (Walls 286).

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Allusion: Reference to other works outside of the book itself.
Example: The Joshua tree which is a reference to the Bible, The cat's name being Quixote which is a reference to the Spanish novel.
Analogy: Comparing different things to show difference between the two, example- branching river and a tree
Dynamic Characters: These are characters which aren't one dimensional and stale, they are unique in their own way.
Flat or Static Characters: One dimensional stereotypical characters that have no uniqueness about them.

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Desert-Beginning
Phoenix-Middle
Welch-Middle/End
Battle Mountain- Middle
Welch Mountains-Middle/End
Texas-Beginning
Las Vegas-Beginning
New York City-End

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Rex is always promising how he will do anything to give them the world when he can't even promise to himself not to drink

The Glass Castle is supposed to represent the family's overall hope but it actually represent how fragile the family is as a whole

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What did you think of the parents overall?

Could you survive as a member of the Walls family?

Do you think that either of the parents suffer from a mental disorder or disease?

What did you pickup from the book as overall tone and theme?

Would a family be able to survive like that in today's world?

Do you think Maureen made the right choice of going to California in the end?

Who frustrated you more as a parent? Rex or Mary? and why did they frustrate you?

What does the Glass Castle represent to you?

If the Glass Castle ever became an actual thing do you think Jeannette would stay or not?

Do you think that Rex redeemed himself a little bit in the end? How so?

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The tones of the book are all over the place but it depends on which character we look at. Jeannette's tone goes between both spectrum's of anger and happiness as well as being sad, depressing, hopeful, grateful , and many others. Rex as an example however is always hopeful and looks forward even as it all comes crashing down around him.

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The point of view of this novel is first person limited as it only follows Jeannette in her childhood and what she sees and feels and it's all from her perspective

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The title, Glass Castle, represents the hope the family has of eventually having a good life where they don't have to worry about the problems of life, and I feel like the glass represents how fragile this hope is.

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Finding hope and amusement in the direst of situations

Always looking forward and never back

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Jeannette Walls- Main person of interest and focus in the memoir, protagonist

Rex Walls- Father of all the Walls kids, drunk and probably suffers from dementia.

Brian Walls- Younger brother to Jeannette, tough and strong and very protective of his siblings

Lori Walls- Older sister of Jeannette, the smart and thoughtful one, very kind

Maureen Walls- Youngest of the kids, isn't very involved with the family as she grows up, she isn't raised like the others and this is shown at the end of the book.

Rose Mary- Mother of the Walls kids, aspiring to be a successful artist, a little selfish and very lazy.

Grandma Smith- Old mother of Rose Mary, doesn't agree with how they live and what they do.

Grandma Erma- Rex's mother who is a hard women and very racist and stern.