https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g The six themes in The Glass Castle en-us 2019-05-15 16:44:05 UTC 2023-02-13 18:10:11 UTC hello@padlet.com 347239 https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360443538 In the memoir, The Glass Castle, the author tells us that true non-conformity cannot be achieved. This is shown through characterization. Non-conformity is seen in the memoir when Jeannette says
 "I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians.
'We could live like this forever,' I said.
'I think we're going to,' she said." (pg.18) An average child does not sleep outside in the cold under the stars at night yet Jeannette and Lori didn't know what a average night for a child is like, so they thought that they were so fortunate. As seen in the picture, it must be gorgeous to lay and watch the stars at night but freezing once you fall asleep no matter what you are in. 

]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360443538 343050 https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360444943 Jeannette shows a lot of Unconditional love in her memoir. one incident that comes to mind is when Billy tells Jeannette that their dads are both drunks and she said, " I hated Billy at that moment, I really did. I thought of telling him about binary numbers and the Glass Castle and Venus and all the things that made my dad special and completely different from his dad, but I knew Billy wouldn't understand. I started to run out of the house, but then I stopped and turned around. 'My daddy is nothing like your daddy!" pg 83. I shouted. "When my daddy passes out, he never pisses himself!' " I chose this quote because even though she knows that her dad is a drunk she still only sees the good qualities in her dad and will always stick by his side.

]]> 2019-05-15 16:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360444943 343050 https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360445500 In Jeannette's moms opinion , forgiveness should be given no matter what. Forgiveness is a powerful force that you can't just say but you have to feel. "'Everyone has something good about them,' she said. 'you have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.'/ 'Oh yeah?' I said. 'How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?'/ 'Hitler loved dogs,' Mom said without hesitation." (pg.144) Hitler? She really is forgiving Hitler? That is how loving she really is, whether we see it on the outside or not. She focuses mainly on the good in people, not the bad. Sure, she is not perfect, but no one is. At the end of the day she has a beautiful, forgiving heart and that is what matters.]]> 2019-05-15 16:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360445500 343050 https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360445756 Through out Jeannette's childhood her father keeps talking about building " The Glass Castle" the Wall's dream home. When they move in to their new home in Welch after getting kicked out of Erma's house, and Rex shows Jeannette and Brian to an empty lot by the house, "  Dad had shown us the spot near the house where we were going to put the foundation and basement for the Glass Castle. He'd measured it off and marked it with stakes and string. Since Dad was hardly ever home...   Brian and I decided to help. We found a shovel and pickax at an abandoned farm and spent just about every free minute digging a hole. We knew we had to dig it big and deep. "No point in building a good house unless you put down the right foundation," Dad always said...  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." I picked this quote because to Jeannette if she helped with the glass castle i could be finished soon ans her dream would come true but in reality the glass castle would never be come real.]]> 2019-05-15 16:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360445756 343050 https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360446017 Self-sufficiency is the ability to live or function without help or support from others. One part of the memoir where Jeannette shows her self-sufficiency is when Rex teaches Jeannette how to swim. He doesn't exactly "teach" her though. He throws her into the water and waits for her to figure it out herself. "...you can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is 'If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim." (pg.66) She literally got no help with learning how to swim and had to teach herself in a matter of seconds.]]> 2019-05-15 16:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360446017 343050 https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360446179 The Wall family always seemed to be moving, packing up in the middle of the night, sleeping in the car,  under the stars. " 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." pg 19 This type of lifestyle, to a normal family is very chaotic but to them it is very normal and they are pretty much used to it. They arrange blankets to make makeshift beds in the car and utilize anything around them to make their surroundings as comfortable as possible.]]> 2019-05-15 16:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/347239/ihm5dxo0aw3g/wish/360446179