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Summary Of In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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[“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls she writes about her life growing up as a kid.] From moving around her whole childhood and not ever having enough food, to growing up to being a successful writer. They somehow make it through, proving that money can't buy happiness…but it can pay the rent and buy clothes and food, which helps.*

Rex always gives the kids false hope, like telling them that he was going to build the glass castle once they struck rich from the Prospector to find gold. In Welch Rex always told the kids that they were going to find gold then get rich, then they would have the Glass Castle and be better off, “All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that. Once he finished the prospector and we struck rich, he’d start to work on our Glass Castle.”(Walls 25). #Rex just fills the kids with false hope, about getting a better life, but in later in the book the kids begin to figure out none of it was true.# …show more content…

When the Wall’s family car breaks down, they get picked up by a stranger, who uses poor a lot to describe the family, and Jeanette says,”We’re not poor.”(Walls 121). #Jeanette says this because in the book she liked to believe everything was okay because that’s what her family always told her. They never admitted to not having enough money to buy food or anything. The quote shows that once they say they are okay enough they think they will actually start to believe it.

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