https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou By:Tania Balderas en-us 2019-10-09 15:02:52 UTC 2019-10-11 15:14:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 3496331 https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395654643 “I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn’t afford expensive presents and they didn’t want us to think we weren’t as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all sorts of fancy toys under the tree that were supposedly left by Santa Claus....We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. “Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,” Dad said, “you’ll still have the stars.” The pine trees in the dark night represents the symbolism of Christmas while the stars show when Rex was telling his children they will always have the stars. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395654643 3496331 https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395654943 "But despite all the hell-raising and destruction and chaos he had created our lives, I could not imagine what my life would be like-what the world would be like- without him in it. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had. I looked out the window." This image shows a father and daughter holding showing they love each other as Rex and Jeannette did. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395654943 3496331 https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395655311  "I 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.
 "But that's for the Glass Castle," I said.
 "It's a temporary measure," Dad told me. He explained that he was going to hire a truck to cart the garbage to the dump all at once. But he never got around to that, either, and as Brian and I watched, the hole for the Glass Castle's foundation slowly filled the garbage." This picture represents broken promises because the foundation of the glass castle kept filling up with trash and Jeannette’s and Brian’s hard work wasn’t even worth it. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395655311 3496331 https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395655705 "I was three years old, and we were living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town whose name I never knew. I was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress my grandmother had bought for me.....But at that moment, I was wearing the dress to cook hot hogs, watching them swell and bob in the boiling water as the late-morning sunlight filtered in through the trailer's small kitchenette window." This picture of the pink dress represents a visual of the dress Jeannette was wearing that caught on fire when cooking the hot dogs, showing that Rose Mary wasn’t supervising her. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395655705 3496331 https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395656976 "The house was a dinky thing perched high up off the road on a hillside so steep that only the back of the house rested on the ground. The front, including a dropping porch jutted precariously into the air, supported by tall, spindly cinder-block pillars. It had been painted white a long time ago, but the paint, where it hadn't peeled off altogether, had turned a dismal gray." This picture shows a representation of the house they were living in Welch and the conditions they were living at which shows lifestyle. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/395656976 3496331 https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/396717039 "He treats me fine, Dad," I said. What I wanted to say was that I knew Eric would never try to steal my paycheck or throw me  out the window, that I'd always been terrified I'd fall for a hard-drinking, hell-raising, charismatic scoundrel like you, Dad, but I'd wound up with a man who was exactly the opposite." This sign that has order and chaos crossed shows how Jeannette and her siblings wanted to live a stable good life but instead as they were growing up they were raised with her parents in such dirty and unstable life and raising. ]]> 2019-10-11 14:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/3496331/b8t4sdoxciou/wish/396717039