The Glass Castle by Jaden Oyenuga https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2 Made with wonder en-us 2019-10-11 15:35:40 UTC 2023-02-20 06:39:18 UTC hello@padlet.com 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396748812 2019-10-11 15:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396748812 “A squad car tried to pull us over because the brake lights on the green caboose weren’t working. Dad took off. He said that of the cops stopped us, they’d find out that we had registration or insurance and the license plate had been taken off another, and they’d arrest all. After barreling down the highway, he made a screeching U-turn, with us kids feeling like the car was going to tumble over on side, but the squad car made one too. Dad peeled through Blythe at a hundred miles an hour, ran a red light, cut the wrong way up a one way street, the other cars honking and pulling over. He made a few more turns, then headed down an alley and found an empty garage to hide in.” 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396749169 2019-10-11 15:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396749169 Through the car chase, Rex show how he ignores law and order, willing to outrun the police, drive recklessly endangering his family who is along for the ride, and flee a town to avoid dealing with the result of his decisions. The children bear the fallout of these decisions, having to ride to yet another town in the dark bed of a U-Haul truck. While trapped in the dark back of the truck, the children take turns caring for baby Maureen, and Brian does his best to close the doors when they fly open. Dad often has the family do the "skedaddle" and while he claims it is because FBI agents are after them, Mom says that it is actually to avoid bill collectors. 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396749785 2019-10-11 15:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396749785 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396750658 2019-10-11 15:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396750658 "But despite all the hell-raising and destruction and chaos he had created in 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 on one else ever had." 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396752308 2019-10-11 15:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396752308 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396753480 2019-10-11 15:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396753480 “Never did build the glass castle. No. But we had fun planning it.” 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396753690 2019-10-11 15:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396753690 The metaphor of the Glass Castle works to explain both her family's lifestyle and to provide further insight into Dad's character. The idea that someday the family will strike it rich and live in a house made entirely of glass, with its own power sources, suggests a faith in and desire for future stability despite the lack of it in their current lives. They believe this dream not only because Dad believes in it, but also in hopes that if he focuses on the Glass Castle he will be able to overcome his alcoholism in order to actually make it a reality. However, the very fragility of the dream, the house is made of glass, which can shatter, after all suggests its elusiveness. Dad, plagued by the loss of a child, paranoia, and alcoholism, is incapable of achieving the dreams he proposes, even though he verbally maintains faith in a different, more prosperous future for himself and his family. 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396754871 2019-10-11 15:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396754871 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396755228 2019-10-11 15:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396755228 "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim" 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396755535 2019-10-11 15:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396755535 After all the tough life lesson the Walls kids faced they were able to finally leave their parents and become whatever they desired to be. Jeannette got the chance of escaping to New York along with Lori, Brian, and Maureen and became a wonderful journalist, newswriter, and author. She always had a feeling about writing as a teenager, so being able to become one was a big accomplishment in her life. while going through struggles. Not only did Jeannette find her true calling but so did Brian, becoming a police man and the man his father never was. And Lori becoming like a her mom and pursing an art career. Although Maureen is still trying to find herself she figures she'll find it in California. 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396760651 2019-10-11 16:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396760651 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396774236 2019-10-11 16:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396774236 "The next day Brian waits in hiding for the girls to attack again, and the two siblings fight them off as best they can." 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396775992 2019-10-11 16:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396775992 Brian had so much love for his sisters, especially who he looked out for and protected the most whenever she needed it. In the story Brian was her right hand man, that would go out of his way for his sisters like protecting Jeannette from the group of hispanic girls, pinching in on money so Lori and Jeannette could go to New York and was not even planning on going. Or chasing the homeless man with a bat that had groped his sister and defending her while getting into a gun fight with Billy. Brian's nature is caring for everyone, it's one of his reasons he became a policeman. 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396776018 2019-10-11 16:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396776018 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396791697 2019-10-11 17:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396791697 “You want to help me change my life?” Mom asked. “I’m fine. You’re the one who needs help. Your values are all confused.” 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396791819 2019-10-11 17:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396791819 Even during their hardest times, Rex and Rose Mary Walls refuse to become charity cases. They do not even accept help from their children in their late adulthood. The value of being self sufficient descends mainly from Rose Mary Walls, whose upbringing in an incredibly disciplined home leads her to forgo the rules when she becomes a mother. Her children, she insists, must learn how to be self sufficient and strong. They should not rely on society or doctors or anything else to help them through life. Even when they fall ill or injure themselves, Rose Mary prefers to treat the wound at home rather than cater to what she considers a false need to visit the hospital. Though the Walls value self sufficiency they are not always able to maintain it, and sometimes their methods are not sufficient for survival at all. 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396791947 2019-10-11 17:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396791947 Dad and Jeannette's meeting also indicates a new peace forming between the two. For instance, when the topic of the Glass Castle comes up, instead of reminding Dad he will never build it, Jeannette stresses how much fun planning it was. In doing so, Jeannette exhibits more compassion and maturity than she did as a teenager, furious with her father's flaws. Thus, through their last talk together, Jeannette and Dad are able to hang on to their love and put aside their differences. 3493162 https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396794542 2019-10-11 17:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3493162/ol64pt23qoi2/wish/396794542