COMEBACK pages 56-82

Mia has been released from the psych ward and is now going home. She doesn’t want to be near her parents and her mother’s sister offers to let Mia stay with her in Indiana. Mia jumps to the offer and packs her bags. Mia’s mother is upset about this and doesn’t know what to do. Immediately when she gets there she begins to drink and smoke joints with her new friend Meliane. She tries uncut cocaine with her for the first time and a hour later she is throwing it up with blood. The next day she is out trying heroin and speedballs and is up for any drug she can get her hands on. She begins to make this a daily process every day meeting at her friend Trevor’s house and shooting up. Meanwhile her mother is planing to lock her up in a rehab.

COMEBACK pages 20 - 56

In these chapters Mia’s mother and stepfather take her to a psych ward for teenagers with problems, because Mia is threatening to run away the day after they find her. When they get their she is stoned and her parents make them test her for every drug and do a STD testing. Mia is extremely upset about this and becomes very upset with her parents. Her parents believe she will be safe their and cannot escape. Then her mother begins to talk about the secrets of Mia’s childhood. When Mia was four her dad sexually abused her and her mother reminisces on when Mia was younger and the incidents that happened, and how she found out what was happening. Her father was also a big marijuana smoker and smoked in fount of her all the time. Mia as a younger child also constantly herd her parents fighting and verbal abuse. Her mother also said that when Mia was 11 she started cutting herself.

COMEBACK pages 1-20

The book starts of with Mia, "a perfect child" what her parents called her, trying to escape her current life. In the first chapter Mia runs away from home beacuse she wants to expirence the real world. Her parents (mom and her step dad) are outraged and cannot belive she whould do something like that. Her parents search all over town for her and find her and make her come home. When she gets home they discover a jornal mia had been keeping of her "secret life" and find out she has been planing to run away for over a year. Mia is extremely upset by this and tells her parents they cannot stop her from ruunning away.

THE GLASS CASTLE page 196-288

The chapters starts off with Jeannette and Lori (her older sister) saving money to escape their family and move to New York. They are saving their money in a piggy bank and come up with every penny they can get. They end up with over $100 and their dad breaks into the piggy bank and steels the money and spends it on alchol. Jeannette and Lori become extremely mad at their father and become more determined to move. Lori gets a job that offers enough money for a bus ticket so she immediately takes it and moves to New York. A month later Jeannette follows, along with Brian and eventually Maureen (her other 2 siblings). Their father accuses Lori of steeling his children and they leave Welch and move to New York. Jeannette is unhappy about this because she left Welch to escape them. Their parents are homeless and try moving in with them and now they can afford an apartment, much nicer them their old house. Eventually things become bad and they get kicked out and move to the streets. Jeanette has got an high paying job and a boyfriend that lives on Park Avenue so she moves in with him. Eventually Jeannette's father dies because of the damage alchol and smoking has done to his body. In the end Jeannette is happily married livening in a house with her husband and invites her family over for dinner. Her mother is extremely impresses by her success.

THE GLASS CASTLE pages 171-195

In these chapters Jeannette tells her mother that she should leave her father so they can collect welfare. Jeannette thinks that her father is dragging the family down because of his drinking and Jeanette, her mother, and her siblings should all leave him. A few weeks later a man from the government comes to their house concerned about child neglect. Jeannette answers the door and lies to him and says her parents have jobs and their is no neglect and makes him leave. She tells her mother this and then her mother paints a picture of a drowning woman and then agrees to get a job.

I don't understand why she would paint a picture of a drowning woman, it makes no sense to me.

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.

THE GLASS CASTLE pages 74-121

The chapter starts out with Jeannette at age 7. Her family has moved again into their grandmas house because she passed away. Jeanette's father is becoming an alcholic. That winter their family wanted to have a big Christmas party for the first time. So they save up money and buy a tree and presents for each other. On Christmas night Jeanette's father is extremely drunk and receives a lighter for a present. immediately after receiving the lighter he goes up to the tree and lights it on fire. The tree quickly burned and took all the presents along with it. Later that week Jeanette's father decides to take her and her brother and sister to the zoo to prove to them that the animals are not dangerous. When they get there her dad goes up to where the cheetah is and climbs the fence taking Jeanette along with him. He goes up to the cheetah and starts petting it and shows Jeannette its safe. By this time many people are crowding around them and cannot believe whats happing. Then someone called security and they got out safely and kicked out of the zoo.

I think that Jeanette's father has a drinking problem and he is putting his kids in extreme danger.