Themes of The Glass Castle by Danny Cantoran https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn en-us 2019-10-09 15:07:18 UTC 2024-10-14 10:04:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Chaos & Order cantoran_danny245 https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396201303 “In my mind, Dad was perfect, although he did have what Mom called a bit of a drinking situation.” This picture shows how Rex had a drinking problem. How there was chaos when Rex had been drinking but there was somewhat of order when he was sober.]]> 2019-10-10 14:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396201303 Self Sufficient cantoran_danny245 https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396201596 “Until then, when I thought of writers, what first came to mind was Mom, hunched over her typewriter, clattering away on her novels and plays and philosophies of life and occasionally receiving a personalized rejection letter. But a newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. What the reporter wrote influenced what people thought about and talked about the next day; he knew what was really going on. I decided I wanted to be one of the people who knew what was really going on.” This picture shows the point where Jeannette started to become self sufficient by working at the newspaper. This helped her see the real world and realize many things about how she was being raised and to see the real world.]]> 2019-10-10 14:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396201596 Forgiveness cantoran_danny245 https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202120 “She’d been reading books on how to cope with an alcoholic, and they said that drunks didn’t remember their rampages, so if you cleaned up after them, they’d think nothing had happened. ‘Your father needs to see the mess he’s making of our lives,’ Mom said. But when Dad got up, he’d act as if all the wreckage didn’t exist, and no one discussed it with him. The rest of us had to get used to stepping over broken furniture and shattered glass.” This picture shows how Jeannette came to learn how her parents had problems and she could not do anything about it. She eventually had to forgive her father and her mother.]]> 2019-10-10 14:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202120 Broken Promises cantoran_danny245 https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202339 “I stared at the plans. “Dad,” I said, “you’ll never build the Glass Castle.”
“Are you saying you don’t have faith in your old man?”  This picture shows the Glass Castle how it was never made and Rex broke his promise to ever get it made , it became garbage.
]]> 2019-10-10 14:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202339 Coming of Age cantoran_danny245 https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202754 “At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn’t keeping my promise that I’d protect her–the promise I’d made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she’d been born. I couldn’t get her what she needed most–hot baths, a warm bed, steaming bowls of Cream of Wheat before school in the morning–but I tried to do little things.” This picture shows how since being young Jeannette may have felt the burden of having to take take of Maureen because she knew her parents couldn't.]]> 2019-10-10 14:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202754 Acceptance cantoran_danny245 https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202982 "it was one thing to live in a three­room shack with no electricity, since there was a certain dignity in poverty, but to live in a three­room shack and own a gold Cadillac meant you were bona fide poor white trash." This picture shows how when Rex stole money from his own children's hard work. The children had to accept that there was no changing their father he was just the way he was.]]> 2019-10-10 14:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cantoran_danny245/maktyh2tdgpn/wish/396202982