https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7 By Paul Davis and Yazeline Flores en-us 2018-05-21 18:03:20 UTC 2026-03-22 19:25:48 UTC hello@padlet.com 3332471 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263108325 " 'Honey, your inventory might move a little faster if you dropped your prices, ' he said. I explained that all my rocks were incredibly valuable and I'd rather keep them than sell them for less they were worth."  Pg. 60

Jeannette shows her non-conformity in this quote by telling her father that she'd rather keep her precious rock collection, rather than change her prices in order to sell them. ]]> 2018-05-23 17:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263108325 3332471 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263118256 2018-05-23 17:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263118256 3332471 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263118302 2018-05-23 17:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263118302 3332471 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263119675 "Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. 'It's a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven't figured 'em out yet,' he said." Pg. 61

When Jeannette's father heroically saved her and her brother from the fire, he later taught them something about the fire to teach them to not be afraid of it. That wispy-like section on the fire is, as he called it, a place where the laws of thermodynamics and physics do not rule over matter. It is a place of both chaos and order ]]> 2018-05-23 17:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263119675 3332471 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263122732 "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. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase. The Glass Castle would have solar cells on the top that would catch the sun's rays and convert them into electricity for heating and cooling and running all the appliances. It would even have it's own water-purification system."  Pg. 25

Self-sufficiency does not always mean a person or some community, it c an also mean objects or machines. In this case, Jeannette's Glass Castle was planned to run all on it's own without anyone else's help. ]]> 2018-05-23 17:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/263122732 3347291 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/265695930 "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 poured the foundation, we could help him on frame. But since we couldn't afford to pay the town's trash-collection fee, our garbage to the dump all at once. But he never got around that , either, and as Brian and I watched, the hole for the Glass Castle's foundation slowly filled with garbage." pg. 155

Their used the pit they dug for the families garbage. Rather than the glass castle he'd promised he'd build for them. By their father doing this he implied for them to grow up via his actions.]]> 2018-06-05 17:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/265695930 3347291 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/265696858 "Dad got out of the car, knelt down, and tried to give me a hug. I pulled away from him. "I thought you were going to leave me behind," I said. "Aww, I'd never do that," he said. "Your brother was trying to tell us that you'd fallen out, but he was blubbering so damned hard we couldn't understand a word he was saying." Dad pulled the pebbles out of my face. Some were buried deep in my skin, so he reached into the glove compartment for a pair of needle-nose pliers. When he'd plucked all the pebbles from my cheeks and forehead, he took out his handkerchief and tried to stop my nose from bleeding. It was dripping like a broken faucet. "Damn, honey," he said. "You busted your snot locker pretty good." I started laughing. "Snot locker"  was the funniest name I'd ever heard for a nose." pg. 31

Jeannette was flung out of the car bleeding from her nose and head. She had felt abandoned to realize that her family was coming back to her and she forgave them.]]> 2018-06-05 17:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/265696858 3347291 https://padlet.com/3332471/9kn2z3ag8ln7/wish/265696925 "Pick out your favorite star," Dad said that night. He told me I could have it for keeps. He said it was my Christmas present...
"What the hell," Dad said."It's Christmas. You can have a planet if you want." And he gave me Venus." pg. 40

Jeanette's father had given a moment that was priceless. Time being spent with her father and being given a star.


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