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The Glass Castle seems like a place where they would finally feel stable.

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^^And yet, it's made of Glass which is easily breakable

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when we were in Midland, Mom painted dozens of variations and studies of the Jashua tree. We'd go with her and she'd give us art lessons.

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green grapes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner would get boring.

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cleaned their teeth with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide

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We were sort of like a cactus. We ate irregularly, and when we did, we'd gorge ourselves.

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the mom said that the cats should be grateful they got a little more time on the planet. when the girl brought it up.

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Why is the Glass Castle mentioned so often? What significance does it have to the story's meaning, other than being a dream house their dad planned?

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"I had to say yes," Mom said. "Your father wouldn't take no for an answer." Besides, she explained, she had to get away from her mother, who wouldn't let her make even the smallest decision on her own. "I had no idea your father would be even worse." So, the mom didn't really know what she was getting into when she married the their dad. She seemed like a different person she got with him.

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The way the father treats animals is disgusting.

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they had rescued many cats because of when they tossed out Quixote. most of them had kittens and they didn't have many neighbors to give them to so one day the dad put them in a burlap sack and brought them to a pond down the road. page 37

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"When dad wasn't telling us about 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... A great big house he was going to build for us in the desert."

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"She said it was good for you to drink unpurified water, even ditch water, as long as animals were drinking from it. Chlorinated city water was for namby-pambies, she said. Water from the wild helped build up your antibodies."

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They left their children inside the car on a hot day while they were in a bar for hours. pg 29

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on page 34 the kids were asked if they wanted a coca-cola or heck a beer because they had a rough night. the little girl ordered a Shirley temple because thats what her dad always bought her when he took her to the bar.

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By the time she was four she was already using a pistol!

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The speaker is frozen by the sight of the fire in the hotel room. She can't move or speak and her father has to come save her and her siblings.

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on page 33 the little girl wakes up in the middle of the night to see the curtains on fire and she thinks that all fire is after her.

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Description of her father's drinking habit: "In my mind, Dad was perfect, although he did have what Mom called a little bit of a drinking situation...But Dad drank hard liquor only when we had money, which wasn't often, so life was mostly good in those days." page 23

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"Even though her face was melted, she was still my favorite toy. " - Beauty in the broken

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Dad says, "You're safe now" as he steals her from the hospital where she was healing from her burns.

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I find it interesting that the family acts with little decorum when they enter the hospital, but call chewing gum a "disgusting, low-class habit."

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After she falls out of the car, the young speaker worries about being left behind because of what her father did to Quixote.

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When the father tells the story about meeting and falling for the mom, she sounds like she had no choice in the matter of marrying him. "Your father wouldn't take no for an answer" "she wanted to get away from her mother, who wouldn't let her make decisions on her own. 'i had no idea your father would be worse.'"

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the dad went hunting for the demon with the girl

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It's sad that she lost a baby just 9 months old.

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what i don't understand is why a three year old was allowed near the stove to cook for herself.

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She became fascinated with fire after the incident.

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Her mother seems to live in denial and believes that her daughter is the one who is struggling.

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they'd clean their teeth with baking soda and a dash of hydrogen peroxide.

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Dad, wouldn't talk about Mary Charlene's death. " When he found her, he stood there like he was in shock or something, cradling her stiff little body in his arms, and the he screamed like a wounded animal." Seems to me the mother really didn't care about this child dying she understood that she needed to leave for some certain reason. While the dad will and always will be heart broken about this. pg 28

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Why does her mother say "I'm fine. You're the one who needs help. Your values are all confused," even though she was the one digging through the trash?