Tuesday, October 16, 2007

THE GLASS CASTLE pages 121-171

In these chapters Jeanette's family has moved in with her other grandparents. Her grandmother is extremely weird and will not come out of the house. Her grandmother is an alcholic and packs Jeanette and her siblings lard sandwiches for lunch. After a month of living there their family decides to move out, and they find an extremely run down house. It has no plumbing, electricity, or a bathtub. They don't have any beds so they use cardboard for mattresses. They have a neighbor that's a prostitute and Jeannette is interested in her and her nine children. One day she gets invited over to her house by one of her children and finds there family completely normal. Jeannette's father has still promised her and her siblings the glass castle. So Jeannette and her brother start to dig a hole right next to their run down house for the glass castles foundation. The hole becomes so big that Jeanette and her brother can stand in it. A few days later Jeanette's father started to fill the hole with garbage; Jeannette was hurt by this, but her dad promised one day they would clean it out. A few months later the hole is filled with garbage and their that leads to Jeanette being teased that she lives in garbage, and starts a lot of fights at school. Jeanette's father continues to drink and he leaves the house for days and telling no one where he is going.

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