Outside Reading-Week 5, Post B

The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

This week I finished the book. Overall I was happy with the ending because Jeannette had seemed to find her place and was happy for the first time, which was what she was striving for since she was a child. Most of this section was about Lori and Jeannette either in New York or working towards getting there. As Lori moved, Jeannette followed then Brian, next Maureen, and finally the parents. I think that Jeannette was disappointed they came, because New York was her dream and chance to get away from her old life. Though she attempts to ignore her parents, I think she feels she needs to take care of them when they become homeless. When they do, she ends up helping them and tells her mom “‘You can’t just live like this,’’ I said. ‘Why not?’ Mom said ‘Being homeless is an adventure.”’(pg 255). I also believe that Jeannette’s mom wants help because she is always coming over, but won’t admit it, and tries to hide her feelings.

Eventually Jeannette marries a man named John who has gone through similar things that Jeannette has. I think that her first husband, Erick was too ‘normal’ for Jeannette. Maybe she felt she couldn’t relate to him, and that she was just forgetting about her entire past. Since Jeannette did not have Lori living with her no longer, she probably felt she couldn’t talk about all the bad things in her life, until she met John.

I would recommend this book to anyone. This book makes you really amazed that all theses events could happen to one person and just how hard they worked to get out of it.