https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6 A Memoir by Jeannette Walls en-us 2018-06-03 07:21:31 UTC 2025-10-06 19:57:40 UTC hello@padlet.com labargeaj https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265190396 " If i came along and helped look after her two toddlers, she said she'd pay me two hundred dollars at the end of the summer and buy me a bus ticket back to Welch. I thought about her offer. "Take Lori instead of me," I said. "And at the end of the summer, buy her a bus ticket to New York City." Mrs. Sanders agreed." 
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I chose this quote because Jeannette shows unconditional love as she turns down a job offer that could've provided her with the money needed to help support the family since her mother and father weren't doing that. However Jeannette wants her sister to succeed and not be stuck in Welch. In order for her sister to achieve her goals of becoming an artist and to get away from her parents. Jeannette decides that for her sister she would give the job to her so she would be able to have enough money when she goes and lives in New York City. The picture below is of New York City which I chose because it shows how much Jeannette was willing to sacrifice and give up in order for her sister to leave and become successful in New York. ]]> 2018-06-03 07:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265190396 labargeaj https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191089 "The next day when I went out to the playground after lunch, the gang of girls started toward me, but Dinitia hung back. Without their leader, the others lost their sense of purpose and stopped short of me. The following week, Dinitia asked me for help on the english assignment. She never said she was sorry for the bullying, or even mentioned it, but she thanked me for bringing her neighbor home that night, and i figured that her request for help was as close to an apology as i would get. Erma had made it clear how she felt about black people, so instead of inviting Dinitia to our house to work on her assignment, I suggested  that on the upcoming Saturday, I'd go to hers."
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I chose this quote because this girl name Dinitia started bullying Jeannette from the very first day of school at Welch Elementary. Dinitia and her group of friends would beat her up everyday and continue to bully her until one day Dinitia sees Jeannette helping one of her neighbors by walking him to his house. This act caused Dinitia to stop bullying Jeannette which lead the other girls to stop too. Dinitia started asking for help on homework and actually talking and hanging out with Jeannette. Although she never apologized for her previous actions of bullying Jeannette. Jeannette believed that was her way of apologizing. Even though Jeannette was bullied by her she showed forgiveness to her by becoming her friend and helping her with her homework. I chose a picture of a girl helping her friend out with homework. The image represents Jeannette helping Dinitia with homework even after the fact that she bullied her she was still willing to help her and even became friends. ]]> 2018-06-03 07:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191089 labargeaj https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191217 "One day that winter, when I came home from school, a gold Cadillac Coupe DeVille was parked in front of the house. I wondered if the welfare agency had found some millionaires to be our foster parents and that had arrived to take us away, but Dad was inside the house, twirling a set of keys on his finger. He explained that the Cadillac was the new official Walls family vehicle. Mom was carrying on about how it was one thing to live in a three-room shack with no electricity, since there was a certain dignity in poverty, but to live in a three-room shack and own a gold Cadillac meant you were bona fide poor white trash. 
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I chose this quote to help represent chaos and order. The Walls family experienced a chaotic life as the parents made all their children fend for themselves in providing their daily needs. Their house was falling apart, they had no electricity, couldn't pay the fees or taxes that were due, couldn't afford to buy new clothes, supplies or shoes, to sum it up they weren't able to provide or pay for anything they needed to have a decent life. The parents decided that they didn't want to work or take responsibility of taking care of their children so instead they make them mend for themselves which even includes finding food to eat for the day otherwise they went hungry. However sometimes like shown in the quote that i provided above, the parents would try to find order in their lives by finally providing with something necessary that they needed for example a car to travel. Although it was on rare occasions that order occurred in the household. I chose an image of the car described from the book that the father decided the family needed. ]]> 2018-06-03 07:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191217 labargeaj https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191247 "We can't keep dumping garbage out there," I said. "What are people going to think?" "Life's too short to worry about what other people think," Mom said. "Anyway they should accept us for who we are." 
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I chose this quote because it shows non-conformity from the mother. The family had been filling the Glass Castle foundation that the children dug with their garbage because they couldn't afford the garbage collection fee so they decide to place the garbage their. However the hole starts to over flow with their trash and Jeannette is also worried about what everyone thinks of them having a pile of trash on their property. When Jeannette tells her mother her thoughts on getting rid of the trash because its overflowing and she's been bullied for it so she decides to tell her mom they need to get rid of it. The Mom tells Jeannette that life is too short to worry about what other people think of them and that people should accept them for who they are. This shows non-conformity because they don't follow everyone else by having the garbage collector pick up their trash instead they keep a pile of garbage on their property. I chose this picture because it represents the pile of garbage that the Walls family had on their property because they couldn't afford the garbage collection fee so decide to leave their garbage in the Glass Castle foundation that the children dug. ]]> 2018-06-03 07:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191247 labargeaj https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191288 "I told Lori about my escape fund, the seventy-five dollars I'd saved. From now on, I said, it would be our joint fund. We'd take on extra work after school and put everything we earned into the piggy bank. Lori could take it to New York and use it to get established, so that by the time I arrived, everything would be set." 
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I chose this quote because Lori, Jeannette, and Brian worked to earn money in order to be able to send Lori to New York so that she would be able to get out of Welch and away from her parents. Jeannette wanted Lori to have a chance to live a happy life and to succeed in life but not be stuck in Welch for the rest of her life. so the kids came up with a plan without the parents or anyone else's support in order to fund Lori's move to New York. This shows self-sufficiency because the children learned how to provide for themselves without Welfare, other families, and their parents being involved. They learned to rely ojn themselves to get things done and provide for their needs. This had a huge impact because it allowed Lori to be able to escape the terrible place of Welch and go to New York. Lori was able to do this with the help of Jeannette and Brian but her parents didn't help at all, their own father even robbed money from their savings fund and lied saying that he didn't have anything to do with the missing money. I chose an image of a piggy bank that represents the piggy bank that contained the money saved to allow Lori to go to New York. Although the piggy bank eventually gets broken by the dad because he needed the money and steals it. The piggy bank still symbolizes the perseverance and accomplishment the kids had in order to allow Lori to finally have a happy life without her parents, Eventually even after being robbed by the dad they get enough money to have Lori go to New York. ]]> 2018-06-03 07:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191288 labargeaj https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191323 "It was hard work, but after a month we'd dug a hole deep enough for us to disappear in. Even though we hadn't squared the edges or smoothed the floor, we were still pretty darn proud of ourselves. Once Dad had poured the foundation, we could help him on the frame. But since we couldn't afford to pay the town's trash collection fee, our garbage was really piling up. One day Dad told us to dump it in the hole. "But that's for the Glass Castle," I said. "It's a temporary measure," Dad told me. He explained that he was going to hire a truck to cart the garbage to the dump all at once. But he never got around to that, either, and as Brian and I watched, the hole for the Glass Castle's foundation slowly fill with garbage."
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I chose this quote because it shows the fantasy the children believe from the father, but start to realize the reality of the lies and false promises he gives to them. All their lives the father has been telling them about how when he strikes rich they will build this beautiful Glass Castle, When they move to Welch the father finally stakes out where he is gonna build the Glass Castle on their property. The children excited and believing their father's fantasy of having this amazing Glass Castle built just for them decides to help their father and the process go a lot faster by helping dig the foundation which took them a month. However low on money as usual they couldn't afford to pay for the garbage collection fee which results in them having way too much trash but no where to put it so the father decides to put to good use the ditch for the Glass Castle foundation and use it to place all their trash in. He promises that he will personally have someone come all at once to pick up the trash however it continues to stay their and the children start to realize the fantasies and dreams the father shares with them but never accomplishes and keeps his promise. The children start to realize the reality of things and learn to not trust or rely on their father for things. i chose this Image to go along with the quote because it resembles the hole the children dig for the foundation of the Glass Castle that eventually gets filled with garbage and remains there. ]]> 2018-06-03 07:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/labargeaj/suocgywkmdz6/wish/265191323