https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf A Tragedy in the Making en-us 2018-09-28 19:48:18 UTC 2026-01-25 19:09:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Simplehouse.png 3424451 https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287831537 “If you want to be treated like a mother,” I said, “you should act like one.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
During the span of Jeannette's life with her parents there were a lot of broken promises from her mother and her father. The quote directly relates to her mom not being a mom because she never acts like one, she always neglects her kids and gets them in to trouble in some way like when they were sent to special ed class because their mom forgot their papers for schooling.]]> 2018-10-01 19:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287831537 3424451 https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287843352 “Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
When Jeanette and Lori moved out to New York they learned their parents had shown up through the local news. They welcomed their parents under their roof and gave them a place to stay although it wasn't the most stable household between Rose Mary asking for 1 million dollars and Rex's drinking problems they were willing to forgive their parents and let them stay.]]> 2018-10-01 19:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287843352 3424451 https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287844527 “No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Growing up with their family the kids had to face a lot of obstacles in their path but with every experience they changed and became who they are today. Through all of the neglect and abuse they powered through and at the end of the line broke out and told how they really felt about their parents. In this quote Jeannette explains that Lori was the smart one, Maureen was the pretty one, and Brian was the brave one but the one similarity between them all is that they all worked hard to get where they are and became who they are.

]]> 2018-10-01 19:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287844527 3424451 https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287845715 “I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Jeannette's family was very unpredictable and unstable between her dad who used them for money and her mom who neglected them. Lori kept the order between the children and the family always standing up for herself and her siblings because she saw what was really wrong with her parents and how they were treating them. Rex & Rose Mary however create all the problems by simply ignoring their kid's problems, using them for money, or just out right neglecting them.]]> 2018-10-01 19:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287845715 3424451 https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287846462 “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”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Jeannette's family had the idea in their head that they had to let their kids experience everything for themselves and learn from it also known as "helicopter parenting." This idea relates from the Fantasy V.S. Reality theme because the parents raise their kids in reality but the parents themselves are living a fantasy, from Rose Mart dreaming of becoming a famous painter to Rex's obsession with building the glass castle, the way they raised their kids made their kids realize just how bad they had it and therefore their kids took action to go out and live their own lives.]]> 2018-10-01 19:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287846462 3424451 https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287848182 “You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
During her schooling Jeanette was bullied by a girl named Dinitia who hated her for thinking Jeanette believed she was better then everybody so her and a group of girls bullied her. But then Dinitia saw Jeanette helping a boy out and it changed her mind. The two of them after that quickly became close friends until she was sent to prison.]]> 2018-10-01 19:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3424451/injq64jmbshf/wish/287848182