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During the entire book their where both written and unwritten promises unfulfilled.
Starting with the parents not being able to provide for the kids.How the dad said  " I will never let anything happen to you mountain goat" yet he is the one not providing basic need and on top of that he is taking from them. Like money for drinking when they can be eating instead. As for the mom she can't even take the roll of what a social norm mom would do.

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"I'm doing the best I can under the circumstance," I said"I'm trying to be realistic."
Through out the entire book the kids had to do the best they could to survive. They learned to handle money. They learned how to be a social norm.They learned that having their parents around was what brought them down. The siblings had each other however they themself brought to themselves what they needed. Weather it was digging for food or finding shelter.

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"I thought it was my faith in dad that  had kept him going all those years.I was about to tell him the truth for the first time,about to let him know that he'd let us down plenty,but I stopped.I couldn't do it"
Jeannette as well  for the rest of the kid thought that they were the reason their parents "tried." They always believed them thought of them and cared for them. They would have never thought of betrayal. Even later in New York besides everything they still cared for their parents.

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"He had gotten married and bought a run down Victorian house on Long Island that he restored,and he and his wife had a child,a little girl.They are his family now." He also became a police officer.
This quote went to show how Brian a boy who grew from a unstable poverty home went out to make a life out of him. How he not knowing about the right and wrong went on to be a police officer. To show that out of disorder soon come order.

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"Never did build that glass castle."
"No.But we had fun planning it."
"Those were some damn fine plans."
In this quote it showed how they always dreamed about the glass castle but never got around to it.
The entire book was about them run around how they believed they were running from bad people when in reality they were running around from the law. How their entire live was an adventure however it was just a sad hard lonely life.

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"no one is neglecting us,"
The entire book also consisted of abuse. Starting from the parents to the child by not raising them well. The parents abused the kids. To  Brian when he cracked his head open they didn't take him to the E.R.
For Lori they wouldn't provide her with glasses that she very much needed. As for Maureen they never took care of her the neighbors where the one to care for her. Lastly for jeannette they wouldn't give her braces. As well for when the children were sexually assaulted by their family members. As for the parents they assess each other. The mother to the father by not let him grow. The father to the mother by stealing her check.They both brought each other down.