Themes in the glass castle by Leonardo Galvan-Flores https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86 Rex Walls en-us 2019-05-15 16:43:48 UTC 2024-06-02 18:11:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Chaos and order 336408 https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360444238 Fire symbolizes chaos fear and destruction. It is also a weird obsession of hers like the time she went to San Francisco and she started lighting on fire paper towels and throwing them in the toilet and nearly burnt the hotel down.  She over came terror, homelessness, and starvation. But also it represents he resilience like the time she was getting raped by Billy but she fought back and stood up for herself. 

"That was the thing about the hospital. You never had to worry about running out of stuff like food or ice or even chewing gum. I would have been happy staying in that hospital forever." 
This is order for her because Jeannette says this because at home there isn't much to eat and if there is she has to make it herself is.
]]> 2019-05-15 16:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360444238 Self-sufficiency 336408 https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360444656 "You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent need to teach  a child is 'if you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim."
This is while Rex tried to "teach" Jeannette how to swim but he only throws her in the water waiting for her to figure it out

self sufficiency is shown in the first chapter when Jeanette got severely burned when she was making her own hot dogs at the age of 3. 

]]> 2019-05-15 16:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360444656 Fantasy Vs. Reality 336408 https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360445138 "We laughed about the all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. “Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,” Dad said, “you’ll still have your stars."

The reality of this is that Rex is teaching his kids that Santa isn't real and toys are just a temporary and the kids will forever have their stars that Rex gave them. Also, Rex didn't give give his children anything because he doesn't have any money to buy gifts. But, it is a fantasy because you can' t physically own at star.

"Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert."
The fantasy  about this is that Rex will never have the Glass Castle built. Rex will say these thing because he wants his kid to think that he is this great guy and he means well

]]> 2019-05-15 16:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360445138 Forgiveness 3423121 https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360446712 When Rex takes the family for a swim, everyone  already knows how to swim  except Jeanette so to teach her, Rex throws her into the deep part of the Hot Pot while the heat and minerals are hurting her he just waits. Once she catches her breath, he tosses her in again.]]> 2019-05-15 16:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360446712 Unconditional Love 3423121 https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360446779 After Rex comes home one night, he tells the family that it's time to "skedaddle". At this time two things happened Jeanette forgot her Tinkerbell doll and they didn't want to return to get it which made her super sad but they prefered to leave it. Right after Rex stopped the car and grabbed the cat then tossed it out like they have before with other cats. Even after getting rid of her pet that she was using for comfort while they were leaving their home , Jeanette still looked up to her parents and loved them no matter what.]]> 2019-05-15 16:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/360446779 non-Conformity 336408 https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/362354129 Non-conformity is shown several times in this story when rex refuses to live in the city and use modern day technology. 
"he began complaining that we were all getting too soft, too dependent on creature comforts, and that we were losing touch with the natural order of the world." ]]> 2019-05-21 23:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/336408/qflsucyv1q86/wish/362354129