Dad Got A Job…
• Imaginary games
• Dad’s belief that if a man plays the cards
he is dealt he is a piss-poor bluffer
• Mom did not like cooking much
• Continued reading
Mom And Dad…
• Math hw incident
• Not many rules (street light rule)
• * Geodes *
None Of Us Kids…
• Cans to make money = self-reliance
• Green Lantern
Our House In Battle Mountain…
• Buster the buzzard
• Mom = self-sufficiency
• “Sink or swim”
“Bad News,” Lori Said…
• Dad begins to disappear after losing his
job
• Kids decide to eat less
• Mom and dad fight
The Next Morning…
• Mom’s teaching job = putting dreams on
back burner
• Mom punishing Lori and Lori
understanding
Once Mom Started Teaching…
• Mom could not say no to Dad
• Jeannette promises to never lose faith in
her father and hands over the sock
• Brian answers “yes”
Some People Liked…
• Battle Mountain = first real home
• Billy Deel
• Implication that Jeannette’s dad had a bad
upbringing
Grandma Smith’s Big…
• Jeannette’s grandmother is dead
• The family is off on another adventure
When We Pulled Up…
• Phoenix, AZ
• “We were definitely moving up in the
world.”
• Gifted students
• Lori’s glasses and becoming an artist
• “Theory don’t always carry the day.”
• Holes in the house
A Lot Of Our Neighbors…
• Gypsies and perverts
• “It was essential that we refuse to
surrender to fear”
• “He knows your father is a cross we must
bear.”
City Life Was Getting…
• “Too dependent on creature comforts…”
• A visit to the zoo
It Was Around…
• Dad lost his job
• Chocolates from the dumpster
• Shoplifting for Maureen’s preschool
clothes
• Dad sets Christmas on fire!
I Turned Ten That…
• “Do you think you could maybe stop
drinking?”
• “It’s his present to me.”
• The Grand Canyon
• “Those poor kids must be dying of thirst,
poor things.”
Three Days Later…
• Mom made living in West Virginia sound
like a great adventure, and pretty soon all
us kids had signed on for the trip
• “Dad, please come, we need you!”
• WELCH
Back in Battle Mountain…
• “Life is a drama full of tragedy and
comedy…You should learn to enjoy the
comic episodes a little more.”
• Erma
The Next Day Was…
• Jeannette’s dad is an atheist
• Welch was shabby and worn out, but you
could tell it had once been a place on its
way up.
The Next Day Mom…
• How was Jeannette welcomed at school?
• Why was she welcomed in this way?
• Stabbed in the back and laughed at by
students and teacher
• They believed Jeannette thought she was
better than them
When We All Got…
• How did Jeannette deal with the bullying?
• Why did Dinitia Hewitt finally stop bullying?
• According to Jeannette’s mom, why
should you never hate people?
• Took it and planned revenge at night
• Jeannette helped her neighbor
• Everyone has one redeeming quality
In Late Winter…
• What do we learn from the confrontation
between the Walls kids and Erma?
• What does this teach us about Rex’s
upbringing?
• Erma is inappropriate and the kids stick up
for one another
• Rex’s problems probably began at home
Mom And Dad Told…
• Where is the Walls’ new home?
• What reason does Rex give his children
for buying this house?
• What does Jeannette put on her shelf?
• 93 Little Hobart Street
• The Glass Castle
• Her geode
Seeing As How Welch…
• The Glass Castle foundation
• Mom named the dead rat Rufus
• “Weird-looking half-finished patch job”
(158)
Little Hobart Street
• “[Mom and dad] always refused charity.”
• Ginnie Sue
We Fought A Lot…
• Fought against others (together) and
fought together, to fend off enemies and to
fit in
• Ernie and his gang meet Jeannette and
Brian
As The Weather…
• Jeannette
– finds it harder to have faith in her father
– Stitches the cut in his arm
– She still saw the good in him though (like
mom)
Dad Had Taken To…
• Rex is away a lot
• The kids become excellent foragers,
relying on themselves for food
• Mother caught eating a chocolate bar
beneath the covers
Winter Came Hard…
• “We may not have insulation…but we
have each other.”
• Fire kept them warm and fire blew up in
Lori’s face
Erma Died During…
• Suicide? She wrote her own funeral plans
• “For the daughter of the town drunk, you
sure got big plans.”
• House started to deteriorate = mom
bought a new bucket
One Day While…
• Self esteem is more vital than food
• Jeannette tells her mom she should leave
Rex
– Jeannette is realistic
Mom Never Told…
• The pool was the only escape from the
heat of Welch
• Jeannette went with Dinitia to the pool
• I’d never felt cleaner.
That Afternoon I Was…
• Child-welfare man makes a visit
– He represents the person who could separate
Jeannette from her siblings
Qualified Teachers…
• Mom was a teacher again
• Money began to disappear again
• Lori and Jeannette began a budget
I’d Started Seventh…
• “I decided to make my own braces.”
• “And I think they’re by God working.”
That Year I Started…
• Miss Jeanette Bivens
– Teacher
– First person to show faith in father
– Key to Jeannette’s escape
At Times I Felt Like…
• Maureen
– Did not experience California
– Developed a powerful religious streak
• Jeannette is head of the house hold
– Soft spot for dad
– Scar saved Jeannette
The Next Evening…
• Jeannette’s jewelry job
– Steals watch because she felt it is what she
deserved (like mom)
– Returns it after a week (like herself)
In Late August…
• Lori was a “normal person”
• Mom will start doing stuff for herself
• Dad whips Jeannette
– Jeannette will rely on herself to get out
That Fall, Two Guys…
• New York City = the Emerald City
• Oz and savings
• “Once you resolved to go, there was
nothing to it at all.”
As Spring Approached…
• Mom supportive of Lori; father seems to
be holding her back
• Lori is able to leave (thanks to Jeannette)
and never looks back
That Fall, When I…
• Jeannette = news editor
• Making other people famous made her
popular
• Chuck Yeager
Lori Had Been Writing…
• Miss Katona and everything else in Welch
held her back
• Jeannette is determined to leave despite
her dad’s glass castle idea
It Had Been A…
• Jeannette gave Maureen her geode
• Rex would always be there for Jeannette;
she knew but would never go back
New York City
• Jeannette thrives in New York working for
newspaper
• Mom and dad moved to the city three
years later (Being homeless is an
adventure.)
New York City
• Dad’s scare with tuberculosis
• Dad cleans up his act but his
interdependency with Maureen brings him
back to the drinking and homelessness
• Rex pays for Jeannette’s final semester in
college
New York City
• Mom and dad settled in a squat house
• Jeannette finds Eric (Is this the man for
her?)
New York City
• Mom owns land that is worth a million
dollars
• “I am deeply disappointed in you.”
New York City
• Lori = freelance artist
• Brian = police officer
• Maureen = looking for someone to take
care of her; she stabs mom; moves to CA
New York City
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•
•
Rex is dying
Contracted a disease from a fight
Rex dies of a heart attack
Jeannette leaves Eric
Thanksgiving
• John said “smooth” was boring but
“textured” was interesting
• Mom and Jeannette laugh alike
• “the candle flames suddenly shifted,
dancing along the border between
turbulence and order”