Reading Reflections

                                                      reading reflections
                                                           Pg 1-32

My Reading Reflection on the last couple of chapters is of anger. The parents have shown the worst characteristics of parents for they take little care of them. At three years old Jeannette was making her own lunch, weird but when she catches fire and nearly dies then it’s a problem. The mother thinks that an independent child is good, but many see that an independent child as too young to be doing so. She acts as if all children must act this way, but it’s a terrible way for a child to develop, and for a child not to cry is to me frightening. So my outlook on the mother is one of hate not of respect.





                                                                   Reading reflection
                                                                              pg 32-53

When i first heard of the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I was told it would be a page turner, that I would love it. Those who told me so i feel have lied, for I hate many of the few characters that are truly told about. When i read I simply think, why these parents are even allowed to have children. Of all the questions on th3e sheet I thought that what do you think of the fact that the furniture is secure, but the children almost fall out? When I read this I feel scared for the children. Let me elaborate what happened in the short story. The children (and a baby that is not even a week old) are put in the back of a U-Haul for fourteen hours and are loosely put in while the furniture is stationary. When the doors of the U-Haul are opened by the jarring of the truck on bumps in the road, the children go sprawling.  They easily would have gone out of the truck if a car had not seen them and honked for them to stop the truck. As this happens the father comes and yells at them for opening the door when it was clearly not their fault. What this says of the father is that the parents should not be parents. They mindlessly put the children’s lives in sake but also blame them for it. When a parent can’t take responsibility for their own actions then they don’t deserve to be parents at all.

                                                          Reading reflections
                                                                    53-75

                                                              Reading reflections

                                                                            53-75

In this short read of, The Glass Castle by Jeanette walls, they parents are faced with the problem that they no longer are able to feed and take care of the children. The father's failing inventions and his crack pot ideas aren’t coming true. The mother is as useless as usual, but she did get a job. Only by the help of the children does she keep it for her attitude toward teaching is like her attitude toward child rearing, relaxed and unproductive. To me this is wrong the children should not have to fend for themselves of they don’t need to help their parents keep a job, it’s pathetic. I no longer care about the book for the parents make me too mad to keep reading. I have made a system though; I read in an interval of five pages and sit to think how I despise the parents. The book is good otherwise it captures the real life of someone fighting for life everyday like an animal. The book seems to act like the movie Slum dog Millionaire.

                                                                    Reading Reflection
                                                                             180-240

In the book The Glass Castle we learn of the despatcher of Lori sparked a fire in Jeannette’s brain telling her to leave Welch for New York. As she tells her father and mother her plan of going to live with Lori, when the parents her the father leaves and the mother tells her it’s a good plan with a hurt tone in her voice. Later that evening her father came and called her into the kitchen; their he showed Jeannette the plans for the glass castle, in his desperate attempt to stop her from going he told and old lie that neither of them still believed. His favorite girl left the month after.