https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o This Padlet is made to show the themes shown in Jeannette Walls' best seller "The Glass Castle" and what they represent. en-us 2019-03-08 19:58:10 UTC 2023-10-06 02:26:23 UTC hello@padlet.com thunderrduck https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339464042 "A few days later, when I had been at the hospital for about six weeks, Dad appeared alone in the doorway of my room. He told me we were going to check out, Rex Walls-style... Dad hurried down the hall with me in his arms. A nurse yelled for us to stop, but Dad broke into a run. He pushed open an emergency-exit door and sprinted down the stairs and out to the street." 

The picture fits the quote very well because it relates to the story of the doctors chasing Rex while he kidnapped Jeannette. Jeannette's parents are the opposite of conformists in every aspect of their lives. Rex doesn't follow the law, pay his bills, work a nine to five, takes care of his children, and drinks all the time. Her mom Rose Mary doesn't do anything except for paint. She thinks that responsibilities are a choice and she doesn't have to work because she's an amazing artist in her head.]]> 2019-03-08 20:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339464042 thunderrduck https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465573 "Before Mom left, she gave me two hundred dollars... That was plenty, she said, to buy food for Brian, Maureen, and me for two months. I did the math. It came out to twenty-five dollars a week, or a little over three-fifty a day. I worked up a budget and calculated that we could indeed squeak by if I made extra money babysitting." 

The picture of the child working at a your age managing other people's finances represents Jeannette's self-sufficiency that exceeds her parents at the age of thirteen. Jeannette having the foresight to even think about making a budget shows that she knows how to take care of herself and her family much better than her parents.

]]> 2019-03-08 20:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465573 thunderrduck https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465706 "Dad had shown us the spot near the house where we were going to put the foundation and basement for the Glass Castle...It was hard work, but after a month we'd dug a hole deep enough for us to disappear in. Even though we hadn't squared the edges or smoothed the floor, we were still pretty darn proud of ourselves. Once Dad had poured the foundation, we could help him on the frame. But since we couldn't afford to pay the town's trash-collection fee, our garbage was really piling up. One day Dad told us to dump it in the hole...Brian and I watched, the hole for the Glass Castle's foundation slowly fill with garbage"

This image is what I all of Rex's promises end up being, garbage. The image is symbolizing the glass castles foundation filled with garbage as told in the quote. Rex made a ton of empty promises but this one, along with his promise to stop drinking are by far the worst to me. This one is so bad because Rex didn't do a thing to help build the Glass Castle. It was all Jeannette and Brian's work and Rex decides to just turn it into trash.

]]> 2019-03-08 20:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465706 thunderrduck https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465763 "I had just turned eighteen. I quit my job at the hamburger joint the next day and became a full-time reporter for The Phoenix."

This is a short quote but it really stood out to me as I was reading the book. Jeannette only quits her job when she has a better job lined up. That's when I realized that she is much more of an adult than Rex is and that Jeannette has really come of age. Rex would just quit his jobs whenever he'd feel unhappy then go to a new town. Rose Mary hardly even worked at all and when she did, she acted like a baby. Whenever she didn't feel like going to teach, Jeannette would have to force her to go. This quote really shows that Jeannette has come of age in a way that Rex and Rose Mary could never understand. The picture symbolizes Jeannette at work, taking care of her responsibilities just like the quote proves.]]> 2019-03-08 20:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465763 thunderrduck https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465987  "We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night. I sometimes heard Mom and Dad discussing the people who were after us. Dad called them henchmen, bloodsuckers, and the gestapo. Sometimes he would make mysterious references to executives from Standard Oil who were trying to steal the Texas land that Mom's family owned, and FBI agents who were after Dad for some dark episode that he never told us about because he didn't want to put us in danger, too. Dad was so sure a posse of federal investigators was on our trail that he smoked his unfiltered cigarettes from the wrong end. That way, he explained, he burned up the brand name, and if the people who were tracking us looked in his ashtray, they'd find unidentifiable butts instead of Pall Malls that could be traced to him."

The picture below is how Rex sees the world. The man running is Rex and the bear behind him is the FBI, government, union, or whatever else he may think is after him. Both Rex and Rose Mary lived in their own fantasy worlds. Rose Mary believed that because she was an artist, she didn't have any responsibilities other than sharing her artistic genius with the world. Rex was always paranoid that something unrealistic was going on. He believed FBI agents were chasing him, that the electricians union was corrupt and he was the only one that could fix it, and that everything else has some influence that was stopping him.]]> 2019-03-08 20:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339465987 thunderrduck https://padlet.com/thunderrduck/1dpx2vbat28o/wish/339472113 "I nodded. 'But you always loved your old man, didn't you?' 'I did, Dad,' I said. 'And you loved me.' "Now, that's the God's honest truth.' Dad chuckled."

This picture is what Rex is to Jeannette for most of her life. He has caused much more suffering on her than just being an alcoholic such as lying to her or pimping her out. But Even after everything that Rex has done to Jeannette, she still loves him. Rex also had unconditional love for Jeannette, granted it's a lot easily to love the daughter that has always been there for you and has never done wrong by you, but it still counts.

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