https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig Christian Bravo en-us 2019-10-03 14:53:02 UTC 2025-08-25 21:53:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image.webp?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f410.png 3429461 https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395647529 "The next time they visited, Brian's head was wrapped in a dirty white bandage with dried bloodstains. Mom said he had fallen off the back of the couch and cracked his head open on the floor, but she and Dad had decided not to take him to the hospital." Pg.13

The picture of the person walking away in a different direction is reflective of the time when they visited Jeannette in the hospital and Brian had a bandage on his head, but he didn't go to the hospital for it. This is an example of non-conformity because the parents did not take Brian to the hospital for his head injury. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395647529 3429461 https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395648817 "When I recovered, Dad picked me up and heaved me back into the middle of the Hot Pot. "Sink or swim!" he called out. For the second time, I sank. The water once more filled my nose and lungs. I kicked and flailed and thrashed my way to the surface, gasping for air, and reached out to Dad. But he pulled back, and I didn't feel his hands around me until I'd sunk one more time. He did it again and again, until the realization that he was rescuing me only to throw me back into the water took hold, and so, rather than reaching for Dad's hands, I tried to get away from them. I kicked at him and pushed away through the water with my arms, and finally, I was able to propel myself beyond his grasp. "You're doing it, baby!" Dad shouted. "You're swimming!" I staggered out of the water and sat on the calcified rocks, my chest heaving. Dad came out of the water, too, and tried to hug me, but I wouldn't have anything to do with him, or with Mom, who'd been floating on her back as if nothing were happening, or with Brian and Lori, who gathered around and were congratulating me. Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is. "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim." What other reason, he asked, would possibly make him do this?" Pg. 66

This picture of someone drowning and the someone grabbing them is reflective of the time when Jeannette almost drowned because Rex threw her in the pool, but they made up later. This is an example of forgiveness because she forgave Rex because she learned how to swim.]]> 2019-10-09 15:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395648817 3429461 https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395648968 "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." Pg.279

This picture of a father holding his daughter's hand is reflective of the time when Jeanette saying that in the end she loved her father and she couldn't imagine what her life would be like without him. This is an example of unconditional love because Jeannette loved Rex because he loved her in a way no else ever had. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395648968 3429461 https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395649125 "I told Mom that if she left Dad, she'd be eligible for government aid, which she couldn't get now because she had an able­bodied husband. Some people at school not to mention half the people on Little Hobart Street—were on welfare, and it wasn't so bad. I knew Mom was opposed to welfare, but those kids got food stamps and clothing allowances. The state bought them coal and paid for their school lunches. Mom wouldn't hear of it. Welfare, she said, would cause irreparable psychological damage to us kids. "You can be hungry every now and then, but once you eat, you're okay," she said. "And you can get cold for a while, but you always warm up. Once you go on welfare, it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life."  Pg. 188

The picture of the person rejecting the money is reflective of the time when Jeannette told her mom to leave her husband and she would be able to go on welfare, but she denied it. This is an example of self-sufficiency because she didn't want help from others. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395649125 3429461 https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395649525 “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 filled with garbage.’’ Pg. 155

The picture of the glass castle is reflective of the time when the children started digging the foundation and then it became a garbage fill because the parents couldn't pay the trash collector. This is an example of broken promises because the glass castle was supposed to built, but it never happened in the end.  ]]> 2019-10-09 15:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395649525 3429461 https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395658076 "We brought the ring home and showed it to Mom. She held it up to the light, then said we needed to have it appraised. The next day she took the Trailways bus to Bluefield. When she returned, she told us it was in fact a genuine two-­carat diamond. "So what's it worth?" I asked. "That doesn't matter," Mom said. "How come?" "Because we're not selling it." She was keeping it, she explained, to replace the wedding ring her mother had given her, the one Dad had pawned shortly after they got married. "But Mom," I said. "that ring could get us a lot of food." "That's true," Mom said, "but it could also improve my self­-esteem. And at times like these, self­-esteem is even more vital than food." Pg.186

This picture of a woman holding a ring is reflective of the time when Rose Mary kept the ring the kids found and she did not sell it. This an example of narcissism because it would improve her self-esteem. ]]> 2019-10-09 15:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3429461/wg7sr37rsyig/wish/395658076