https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q Identifying and describing quotes from Jeannette Walls' novel, The Glass Castle (Jillian Patterson and Dylan Brunell, Period 2) en-us 2019-05-15 16:41:48 UTC 2024-05-18 13:33:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 341438 https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443094 Conformity by definition is following the rules, which is something the Walls family rarely do in the novel, the real challenge is finding a quote that shows it all so simply. (Page 104) "The water was too shallow to swim in, but we paddled around pretending to be crocodiles until we attracted a small crowd of people who kept insisting to Mom that swimming was forbidden in the fountain. 'Mind your own beeswax,' Mom replied. I was feeling embarrassed and started to climb out. 'Ignore the fuddy-duddies!' Mom told me, and to make it clear she paid no nevermind to such people or their opinions, she clambered into the fountain and plopped beside us, sending gallons of water sloshing over the sides." This is an example of non-conformity not just for Rose and her children breaking a rule by swimming in the public pool, but by the crowd silently judging the act reminds the reader just how out of the ordinary all of these actions of the Walls family are. Other recognizable acts are Rex and Jeannette petting a cheetah in a zoo, getting drunk and yelling anti-Jesus statements at a priest during a Christmas service, and taking Jeannette from the hospital "Rex Walls style" by stealing her from the hospital bed. ]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443094 347544 https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443160 Rose and Rex Walls are constantly yelling, fighting, and arguing throughout the novel, but when the following day comes, it's as if the fights never happened. (Page 122) " 'Rose Mary, you're one hell of a woman,' Dad said. Mom told him he was a stinking rotten drunk. 'Yeah, but you love this old drunk, don't you?' Dad said. Mom at first said no, she didn't, but Dad kept asking her again and again, and when she finally said yes, the fight disappeared from both of them. Vanished as if it never existed. Dad started laughing and hugging him. It was as if they were so happy they hadn't killed each other that they had fallen in love all over again." This is an example of unconditional love because Rex and Rose Walls are clearly not in the happiest marriage, and though it isn't confirmed, most of the love comes from Rex, saying it was love at first sight. Though they have this twisted relationship and a family to take care of on the road to stress about, they always were capable of covering it up for the Walls children, acting like the abuse was nothing and going right back to liking each other again.]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443160 347544 https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443385 Jeannette and Rex Walls have a lot of emotional conflict with one another, but when Rex is close to his death bed, he knows everything has to be set aside to show just how happy Jeannette made him. (Page 279) " He took another long pull on his magnum. 'I got a lot to regret about my life,' he said. 'But I'm goddamn proud of you Mountain Goat, the way you turned out. Whenever I think of you, I figure I must have done something right." This is an example of forgiveness because Jeannette has a lot of things to be upset at her father for. He drinks, he's abusive to Rose, and he uses Jeannette at one point to help earn some quick cash from a drunk man hitting on her. But in the end, Rex did what he could for Jeannette, managing to find $950 for her college tuition and still refusing any form of help in return, even when weeks away from dying of tuberculosis. Even with all of these negative emotions towards him, Jeannette wouldn't be as successful as she was without Rex, so putting the past behind them was simply nature. ]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443385 341438 https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443465 The Walls family have lived in multiple apartments and various homes. But the conditions of these home come to show just how unruly or organized these places can be. (Page 94) "When we pulled up in front of the house on North Third Street, I could not believe we were going to live there. It was a mansion, practically, so big that Grandma Smith had had two families living in it, both paying rent. We had the entire place to ourselves." (Page 150) "We all stared. The house was a dinky thing perched high off the road on a hillside so steep that only the back of the house rested on the ground. The front, including a drooping 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 is an example of chaos vs order because you can compare and contrast these places to tell how different their lives were in these places. In Phoenix, the quote from page 94, it wasn't even believable to Jeannette that they would live in a place so nice, with a nice backyard, a fancy piano, and even a place to bathe, being the aspect of order. The home in Welch, described with the quote from page 150, is the worst place Jeannette has ever lived in, with leaks in the ceilings, no heating or air conditioning, and eventually using a window as a front door, being the chaos aspect. ]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443465 341438 https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443482 While Rose Walls was up in Charleston to see about becoming a teacher again for the money, and Lori was away at an educational camp, Jeannette was in charge of the house, taking care of everyone, buying groceries, and managing money. She did the calculations for budget, bought groceries, and even applied for a job all on her own, without any help or support from Rex or Rose. (Page 214) "Being a strong woman was harder than I thought. Mom still had more than a month in Charleston; we were about to run out of grocery money; and my babysitting income wasn't making up the difference." (Page 215) "It was my first real job. Babysitting and tutoring and doing other kids' homework and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap didn't count. Forty dollars a week was serious money." This is an example of self-sufficiency because Jeannette has all of these responsibilities, duties, and extra opportunities that she's piled onto herself and is still able to make it through them, along with being able to turn a profit for the family at the jewelry store she applied at, all at the age of 13, which for children this day and age, would be a little ridiculous. ]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443482 347544 https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443518 An escape vs 
In this situation Lori and Jeannette are done with their parents behavior and life in Welch. So Lori and Jeannette come up with plan for Lori to move out of Welch and leave to New York and live the life they dreams to have. (Page 223) " Lori began to see New York as a sort of Emerald City, this glowing, bustling place at the end of a long road where she could become the person she was meant to be" 
Jeannette planned on going with Lori to New York but only when she almost done with highschool. They made a plan for Lori to leave in June and go to an art school in New York. Jeannette and Lori raise money by doing side job and putting the money in a keep safe piggy bank named, "Oz". They both raised a lot of money between them. It was only 2- months before the big move when everything went downhill. Oz was broken into and all the money was stolen, the girls knew exactly who it was. It was Rex, reality hit them both in the face at that moment. The reality is that their drunk of a father needs the money for cigarettes and alcohol and will do anything to get it. He stole their daughters dreams and didn't even own up to his actions. ]]> 2019-05-15 16:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/347544/j85wx5plzo7q/wish/360443518