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By: Marina Rupp, Kyle Trowbridge, and Danny Hansen

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  1. The Glass CastleJeannette Walls"'Dad,' I said, 'you'll never build the Glass Castle.'  'Are you saying you don't have faith in your old man?'" (pg. 238).http://www.google.com/imgres?q=book+covers+for+the+glass+castle&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1024&bih=571&tbm=isch&tbnid=Oo26-o8Xq0ilKM:&imgrefurl=http://siobhancurious.wordpress.com/category/books/&docid=4joTzOwWZux6D By: Marina Rupp, Kyle Trowbridge, and Danny Hansen

  2. Our scene: Page 175-179 The Scene was of Jeannette and her family surviving a winter in Welch.We believe that this scene best represents the key to Jeanette's success because of how she pushes herself through the hardships, and comes to realize that life could be better. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=little+hobart+street+welch+west+virginia&gs_upl=2110l7344l0l10375l18l11l2l3l3l1l1578l5642l3-3.2.1.8-2l10l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=571&wrapid=tlif131798958989010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x884fb3938abc74c5:0x7a7a0e3b0f28b3dd,Little+Hobart+St,+Welch,+WV+24801&gl=us&ei=4ey "Would your father have ever been capable of building the glass castle?"     "As far as I’m concerned, he did build it. It wasn’t a physical structure, but rather a dream: the hope of a better life."

  3. Resiliency Resilience - the ability to recover from or adjust to easily to misfortune or change. "It got so cold in the house that icicles hung from the kitchen ceiling, the water in the sink turned into a solid block of ice, and the dirty dishes were stuck there as if they'd been cemented in place" (pg 176). Jeannette shows resilience throughout her life, in this scene you see how even though the water in their house was frozen, Jeannette was able to push herself to survive. Not only does Jeanette survive this terrible situation she strives to over come it and make something of her life.

  4. Free Choice and Societal Norms Jeannette went to a friends house and saw the different ways people were living. When the classmate's father moved the numbers up on the thermostat, Jeannette could feel the warm air. "I didn't want to say anything to show how impressed I was, but for many nights afterward, I dreamed that we had a thermostat at 93 Little Hobart Street" (pg 179). This scene helped Jeannette realize how much better she could be living if she could escape her life in Welch. 

  5. The Influence that Community Plays in Family Relations Jeannette and Brian would travel down the road picking up sticks, and coal that would fall off trucks. "The pieces we found were so small that after an hour we'd filled only half the bucket.  We needed at least a bucket to keep a fire going for one evening.  So while we made occasional coal-collecting expeditions, we used mostly wood" (pg. 175). Welch is a coal-mining town, having forty-two coal retailers. Without the coal and sticks they gathered, the Walls Family would not have survived the winter cold.

  6. Dysfunction and Family Life Mr.Walls always found a way to go out to the bar and drink.  Sometimes he would stay out for days until he ran out of money and came home, usually drunk. "We couldn't afford wood any more than we ould afford coal, and Dad wasn't around to chop and split any, which meant it was up to us kids to gather dead branches and logs from the forest" (pg 175). Mrs.Walls would have occasional jobs to earn money, but it wasn't kept for long, and with Mr.Walls having a drinking budget for beer, the kids were forced to mature to survive.  

  7. The Effects of Poverty Poverty-based families are very family-centered. They rely on the company of each other to get through the hard times. Jeannette learns through this experience that as bad as it may get, she will always have somone to fall back on and comfort her.     "'This house doesn't have a lick of insulation,' Brian told Mom when we got back inside. 'All the heat's going through the roof.'   'We may not have insulation,' Mom said as we gathered around the stove, 'but we have each other'" (176).

  8. Environmental Factors Vs. Biological Causes  "'I hate winter,' I told Mom.  'All seasons have something to offer,' she said. 'Cold weather is good for you. It kills germs.'     That seemed to be true, because none of us kids ever got sick. But even if I'd woken up one morning with a raging fever, I never would have admitted it to Mom. Being sick might have meant staying home in our freezing house instead of spending the day in a toasty classroom" (177). Through the enduring of tricky lose-lose situations, the Walls children develop thick skin and the ability to cope with the hardships of everyday life.

  9. Family and Survival Jeanette has many situations in her life that push her to survive and unite as famliy. If it wasn't for her family uniting in tough situations such as this one, she would not be where she is today.   In these situations she learned life lessons about what it takes to survive and how it can take a entire family to over come a situation.  " We couldn't afford wood anymore than we could afford coal, and Dad wasn't around to chop and split any, which meant it was up to us kids to gather dead branches and logs from the forest " (pg175).  In this part in her life she begins to realize that she can't rely on her parents to do there  part in the house anymore. It will come down to the kids being able to support there selves and move on through situations.

  10. Definition of Family Family - A group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head Often times, in extreme poverty cases, one parent usually supports the family by themselves. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=pictures+of+the+great+depression&um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLR&biw=1024&bih=571&tbm=isch&tbnid=hS0XmT_f8_5flM:&imgrefurl=http://history1900s.a

  11. Jeannette's Success http://www.bibliofemme.com/interviews/walls.shtml •  New York Times Best Seller •  Christopher Award for Adult Books •  American Library Association ALEX Award

  12. Works Cited • www.about.com • www.bibliofemme.com • www.google.com/images • www.google.com/maps • www.dipity.com Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle. 2006th ed. New York: Scribner, 2005. 175-79. Print. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=little+hobart+street+welch+west+virginia&gs_upl=2110l7344l0l10375l18l11l2l3l3l1l1578l5642l3-3.2.1.8-2l10l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=571&wrapid=tlif131798958989010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x884fb3938abc74c5:0x7a7a0e3b0f28b3dd,Little+Hobart+St,+Welch,+WV+24801&gl=us&e i=4ey Walls, Jeannette. "Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle." Conversations w/ Famous Writers. Blogspot, 25 Oct. 2005. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. <http://conversationsfamouswriters.blogspot.com/2005/10/jeannette-walls-glass-castle.html>.

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