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Dereliction will only lead to poor conditions. 

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Dereliction will only lead to poor conditions. 

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This abandoned mobile home is only getting worse and worse due to someone not tending the plants or caring for it at all. This falls in the same term of dereliction just like Rose Mary. Jeannette brings it to the readers attention when Rose Mary says, “it’s not my fault if you’re hungry…Don’t blame me!”. Rose Mary says this to Jeannette when all she said was that she was hungry and caught Lori and Jeannette eating margarine with sugar. If it isn’t her fault, who’s is it? She doesn’t try to get money, let alone a job so she doesn’t even try to feed her kids and is allowing them to starve and look for scraps on their own.

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The lack of protection leads to danger and potential trauma. 

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The lack of protection leads to danger and potential trauma. 

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Hands being held together by an adults hand shows the child being held against their will and not allowing them a chance to escape. This ties in with Jeannette being sexually assaulted by her own uncle who was touching her thigh as he was masturbating as she slept. In the Glass Castle, Jeannette being sexually assaulted is brought to Rose Marys attention and says, “He’s just lonely”. As a mother, she should be able to protect her kids and their childhood. Anyone in their right mind would understand that that situation is all around wrong. Again, as a mother she should’ve made changes to help prevent that from happening again.

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Being disappointed shows you expected more from somebody. 

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Being disappointed shows you expected more from somebody. 

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An example of disappointment would be the picture above, someone opening the box and receiving nothing and quoting “The greatest Gift of All”. In the Glass Castle, Jeannette emphasizes, how her parents never allowed them to believe in Santa Clause because they couldn’t afford expensive presents, so instead they “…could have any star I wanted, Dad said, except Betelgeuse and Rigel, because Lori and Brian had already laid claim to them.” Jeannette and her siblings received permission to claim a star for Christmas instead of a toy or clothes. Jeannette wasn’t even close to being disappointed and in fact she was happy with her gift but it was mainly because she never expected more from her parents.

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Acceptance is the only way one can truly move on and live a better life. 

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Acceptance is the only way one can truly move on and live a better life. 

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The missing piece for peace is acceptance. Jeannette has accepted a lot of inappropriate behavior in her life. A perfect example would be when she emphasizes, “I felt throwing the money at him, but we kids needed it, so I put the bills in my purse”. Rex Walls says this to Jeannette after he used her for her body to motivate the guy he was taking money from. Although this happened, she still accepted everything including her own body even after the guy, Robbie, called her “too bony to screw”. She moved on from that night and was able to get some money out of it.

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You truly can’t trust anybody but yourself.

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You truly can’t trust anybody but yourself.

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A child’s hand holding onto an adult’s hand looks very genuine and portrays the reliance the child has toward their parent. A time she ever truly trusted herself and her siblings, it was ruined by her own parents who stole their money to spend for alcohol and cigarettes. Jeannette mentions, “ Why are you doing this to us, Dad? Why?” This was after he had stolen the piggy bank with money full of hopes and opportunities for all siblings.

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A broken promise is a promise that shouldn’t have been made in the first place. 

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A broken promise is a promise that shouldn’t have been made in the first place. 

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This picture of parents and their children's hands shows the promise of parenting but the picture plays in with the theme by parents lying to their own children. This example is shown when Jeannette Walls said, “When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert.” Her father, Rex Walls, lied to his children and himself that he would build this beautiful house for his family which was just another disappointment.