The Glass Castle post 2

After the first couple chapters I was very intrigued with the book and I wanted to keep reading. What I have learned so far shows me that her parents are not good role models and seem to not be interested in what is best for Jeannette. So after Jeannette returns from the hospital I was surprised to read that her parents let her keep cooking hot dogs with out their supervision. A quote that supports this that I liked was, “Good for you,” Mom said when she saw me cooking. “You’ve got to get right back in the saddle. You can’t live in fear of something as basic as fire.” This quote tells me that her parents are different from other parents and that their children’s safety isn’t the most important thing to them. Also just to remind you, she is still only four years old. Her dad then starts to eventually show her fire tricks that are very dangerous for a young child. He teaches her how to pass her finger through a flame and Jeannette started to do this all of the time. She then started to steal matches from her dad and she would go behind the garage and light them. Whenever they would go out or get to hot on her fingers she would curse that she picked up from her dad. All of these incidents prove and show that her parents are not what I would consider mature and effective parents.

The Glass Castle post 1

So far The Glass Castle is very interesting and caught my attention immediately. Jeannette was raised in a southern Arizona town when she was three years old with her odd parents, her brother and her dog. The book starts out when she is old and she sees her mother searching through a dumpster for food which shows that her parents are struggling. Jeannette then meets with her mother to talk and to catch up with each other. This then leads to her remembering of when she was a child and what her life was like when she was living with her family. Her parents are very over protective of her which to me is a bad thing because this causing argument with others and arguments of what she can and cannot do which creates a tension between her parents and others. The next chapter begins with her making hot dogs at the age of three. But the oddest thing about this is that her parents aren’t even watching over her! Jeannette eventually catches on fire and is immediately sent to the hospital with serious burns. This again shows that she experienced a childhood full of hardships and I think this was only one of the many traumas that she would have to overcome.

The Glass Castle

The book that I am going to read is called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I chose this book because both of my parents have read it and they recommend me to do the same. I am looking forward to read this book and I am very excited.