https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f Memorable events of Jeannette Walls the good and bad. en-us 2020-12-16 21:22:41 UTC 2020-12-17 20:19:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f643.png 3711331 https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025852709 "I didn't feel like celebrating. After all he'd put himself through, I couldn't believe Dad had gone back to the booze" (Page 123, Jeannette Walls)

This quote relates to the theme broken promises because all Jeannette wanted for her birthday was her dad to stop drinking because he's a heavy alcoholic in the story, but in the end he always goes back to his additive habits. This picture of an egg shell broken in half represents Rex's promise to his daughter to stop drinking as her birthday present but fails to keep his promise as with other promises in within the book.]]> 2020-12-16 21:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025852709 3711331 https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025854282 "We'd stopped talking about the Glass Castle once the foundation we'd dug was filled up with garbage." (Page 238, Jeannette Walls)

The picture relates to the quote because the glass castle was a big fantasy for Rex and the kids  but whenever they started paying more attention to it expressed the real reality of their life meaning trashy and uncared for life style.  Rex manly wanted a better lifestyle and to cop with it,  uses the glass castle as his dream to cover up their reality.]]> 2020-12-16 21:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025854282 3711331 https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025918437 "No way was I going to lose Brian and Lori and Maureen." (Page 194, Jeannette Walls)

This picture relates to the this quote because when the child service man came to ask about where Jeannette's parents where she knew what was going to happen they would take her siblings away and be separated. She couldn't do that to Lori, Brian and Maureen she loved them more than living in better living conditions with the child services.]]> 2020-12-16 22:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025918437 3711331 https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025920129 "I was afraid that Mr. Becker wouldn't give me the job if he knew I was only thirteen, so I told him I was seventeen. He hired me on the spot for forty dollars a week, in cash. I was thrilled. It was my first real job." (Page 215, Jeannette Walls)

This picture relates to this quote because she had to be independent because that week her dad lost his job and they were running out of money. So she took matters into her own hands and at age 13 she got a job to provide for her siblings because they were going to starve of no food.]]> 2020-12-16 22:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025920129 3711331 https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025953984 "Have I ever let you down?" he asked Brian and me then turned and walked away. In a voice so low that Dad didn't hear him, Brian said "Yes"." (Page 79, Jeannette Walls)

This picture relates to the quote because ever time Rex has said this to the kids he always ends up failing them and the kids are expected to say nothing of his actions. And this one time Brian has had enough and accepts that his dad always has failed them so he decided to speak up but under his breath.]]> 2020-12-16 22:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025953984 3711331 https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025955099 "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 no one else ever had." (Page 279, Jeannette Walls)

The chain being broken and turned into free roaming birds relate to the quote by meaning when Jeannette was in her childhood her Dad had treated her with no protection of a proper parent and has let unlawful things happen to them. Now grown up, at the end of the book she realizes that she doesn't need to hold a grudge against her deiced dad and forgives what he has done in the past and knows he always loved her.]]> 2020-12-16 22:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3711331/rov68w6kfq6w3h0f/wish/1025955099