https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3 en-us 2022-12-05 19:30:22 UTC 2026-01-25 05:06:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 371341 https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409676851 After hearing Rex had acquired some incurable, rare tropical disease, Jeannette recollected her thoughts and emotions about how she felt about her father. "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." Jeannette knew she loved her father, and she knew he loved her back. "But you always loved your old man, didnt you?" Rex asked Jeannette. "I did, Dad, and you loved me," was her response. Based on these quotes, Jeannette accepts and still loves her father, despite everything he's done to her and her siblings. The picture above is a heart, a universal representation for love, relating to my theme for acceptance. Jeannette accepted her father in the end.]]> 2022-12-05 19:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409676851 371341 https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677194 For a while, Lori and Jeannette had been saving up to move to New York after hearing about the opportunities there from two men who were from New York. Jeannette and Lori had an escape plan about Lori moving there after she had graduated. For months, Jeannette and Lori were doing odd jobs, such as Lori taking in commissions to paint posters. At one point, Brian had chimed in and started trying to make some money and contribute, so he could eventually move there too. They had been saving the money in a piggy bank named Oz. One day, Jeannette finds Oz broken, with all the money gone. When Lori finds out about this, she cries in a quiet whimper and stops painting commissions, as if all hope had been lost for her. When Lori confronts Rex about stealing their money, Rex is in denial, saying it wasn't him. Nobody believes him, and in fact Jeannette and Lori both know he did steal the money, based on his past habits and current behaviors. "Why are you doing this to us, Dad? Why?" Jeannette asks her father. This quote represents how severely disappointed she is in her father, wondering why he would stoop this low and cause this much damage to his own children. The sad, broken piggy bank picture represents the effect Rex had caused his own children, after almost nine months of them working hard and saving up to move out of Welch, and to New York. ]]> 2022-12-05 19:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677194 371341 https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677196 When Jeannette turned ten in the spring, she had one wish she really wanted for her birthday. That wish was for her dad to stop drinking. She had asked her father to stop drinking, but to her surprise, Rex agreed to grant her wish by saying "You know if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'll die trying." Only a few months later after Rex had disappeared in early fall out of shame of receiving someone else's help from an accident, Rex came back drunk. "I couldn't believe dad had gone back to the booze," was Jeanette's disbelief to Rex's action that day. The picture above is an empty bottle of alcohol. It represents how Rex was unable to stay away from it, as he had promised to Jeannette. "I couldn't believe Dad had gone back to the booze" was Jeannette's realization that he can and will never stay clean from alcohol, losing hope in ever thinking he could. ]]> 2022-12-05 19:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677196 371341 https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677257 "A year after Dad died, I left Eric. He was a good man, but not the right one for me, and Park Avenue was not where I belonged." For Jeannette, it took years to realize what she was unhappy with. After her father's death, she felt like she needed to constantly be on the move, going some place rather than being there. Five years later, Jeannette remarries to another man called John, and moved to an old country house. Despite not having a rich husband or living in a luxurious apartment in a well off city, Jeannette was happy and had found her identity, explaining the theme. The quote explains that she had found her place, and where she felt like she truly belonged. The picture, a broken chain, represents how she became free from wanting to live rich and wealthy, because she grew up in poverty. ]]> 2022-12-05 19:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677257 371341 https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677345 During Jeannette’s whole life, her father was always talking about making plans to build a castle made out of glass. In the end, Rex never built the glass castle. The picture above represents what Rex would’ve built, at least in his mind. During the Walls family’s time in Welch, Jeannette and Brian decide to help their father further his progress with the glass castle, since there was no visible evidence despite Rex always telling them that he’s still working on the blueprints. They helped Rex by digging a giant hole on the ground, and one day Rex started throwing garbage in the hole they dug up. Jeannette confronted him about the garbage in the hole, and Rex said “It’s a temporary measure.” At one point when the hole was almost completely filled up with garbage, Rose Mary said “Enlarge it.” I chose these quotes to represent my picture and my theme because in Rex’s fantasy, he wanted to build something that wasn't realistic to build. In reality, they just ended up with a hole filled with garbage, with neither parents caring enough to do anything about it but to encourage it to be used as a garbage pit indirectly. ]]> 2022-12-05 19:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677345 371341 https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677610 The picture represents a hospital, a place Jeannette found peace in. In Jeannette’s home, there was almost never any running water, always a clutter in each corner, no television, and would sometimes starve for a while. On the other hand, in the hospital Jeannette was staying in, she received three meals a day, regularly cleaned towels and bedsheets, and television. She described the hospital by saying “I wasn't used to quiet and order, and I liked it.” My theme correlates with Jeannette’s preferences because her life was chaotic growing up, moving from place to place. Later on in life, Jeannette is living in Park Avenue. The complete opposite of her previous life, and she likes the way she’s living there, for now. ]]> 2022-12-05 19:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/371341/6lqugtez91p4o6l3/wish/2409677610