This was a great book. A memoir written by Jeanette. A tale of survival and dreams. This book makes you think about family values and resiliency of children.
The Glass Castle is full of unforgettable stories, which ones are the most memorable for you? Which are the most shocking, funnest, saddest, inspiring...?
The two stories that stand out the most to me are the first one that started off the book. When she was 3 years old cooking her own hot dog and got badly burned. It must have been traumatic for her to remember that. I can't remember what I was doing when I was 3. The second story that stood out to me is when she feel out of the car and they did not come back for her right away. The fact no one noticed she fell out and that they did not bring her to the hospital.
Discuss the metaphor of a glass castle and what it signifies to Jeannette and her father. Why is it important that, just before leaving for new York Jeanette tells her father that she doesn't believe he'll ever build it?
The glass castle is the house that Jeannette and her father Dreamed about building someday. I think is signifies for them stability and family. The metaphor is that glass shatters easily, just like the family consumed by homelessness and alcoholism. Jeanette hangs on to this dream that some day life will be stable, predictable, and caring. A glass castle is also transparent. I think the other metephor that could come from this story is the "outside world looking in" on the family and seeing the struggles and difficulties, that Jeanette and her siblings are trying so hard to hid. And her parents are also trying to hide. Denile. Their problems are very translucent. It was important for Jeannette to tell her father that the house was never going to be built before she left, because she would not have been able to leave other wise. Jeanette despite her father's self destruction and the effects it had on the rest of the family always had hope for her father to get better. She was her father's biggest supporter. She knew that the chance of having a home was too late. It was her way of letting go.
The Glass Castle is full of unforgettable stories, which ones are the most memorable for you? Which are the most shocking, funnest, saddest, inspiring...?
ReplyDeleteThe two stories that stand out the most to me are the first one that started off the book. When she was 3 years old cooking her own hot dog and got badly burned. It must have been traumatic for her to remember that. I can't remember what I was doing when I was 3. The second story that stood out to me is when she feel out of the car and they did not come back for her right away. The fact no one noticed she fell out and that they did not bring her to the hospital.
ReplyDeleteDiscuss the metaphor of a glass castle and what it signifies to Jeannette and her father. Why is it important that, just before leaving for new York Jeanette tells her father that she doesn't believe he'll ever build it?
ReplyDeleteThe glass castle is the house that Jeannette and her father Dreamed about building someday. I think is signifies for them stability and family. The metaphor is that glass shatters easily, just like the family consumed by homelessness and alcoholism. Jeanette hangs on to this dream that some day life will be stable, predictable, and caring. A glass castle is also transparent. I think the other metephor that could come from this story is the "outside world looking in" on the family and seeing the struggles and difficulties, that Jeanette and her siblings are trying so hard to hid. And her parents are also trying to hide. Denile. Their problems are very translucent. It was important for Jeannette to tell her father that the house was never going to be built before she left, because she would not have been able to leave other wise. Jeanette despite her father's self destruction and the effects it had on the rest of the family always had hope for her father to get better. She was her father's biggest supporter. She knew that the chance of having a home was too late. It was her way of letting go.
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