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Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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The Glass Castle by: Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls has a very rough childhood. To living in a RV to a car to a house, to a shack that's crumbling apart. She has a drunk as a father and a mother with some psychological issues making them useless as parents. Jeannette also has a brother and two sisters. The brother is named Brian the sisters are named Lori and Maureen. Brian, Lori, and Jeannette are close and really trust each other and help each other get through their childhood. Maureen is rarely even with her family she's mostly at friends houses or she stays at other people's houses.
Though Jeannette goes through a lot of hard times in her childhood. She needs to learn how to mostly survive on her own, get by on little to nothing. Everywhere she went she learns how to feed herself when there was no food around, keep warm, and help her family as much as she could. In doing this she's becoming very responsible and also she becomes very self sufficient. She's doing very well in school and even gets a job to pay for food for her family, when her parents wouldn't. She makes a budget to plan her spending and get the most out of her money. But it's her father who takes a big fraction of her budget to go and gamble or scam drunks. …show more content…

Her family would sometimes provide food, shelter, and clothes when they had the money, but it was never really how a child should be cared for. She needed to learn how to grow up and quickly, in order to make her life better so after she arrived at Welch she started doing extra curricular activities after school in order to stay longer to avoid going home. She also got a job to help pay for food because her mother quit her job and Rex didn't maintain a steady flow of money, after getting her job she created a

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