Sections Four and Five

Jeannette did very well in New York City her first year and made some money in a restaurant. She got a couple of writing jobs and went to a college. Jeannette got her own apartment and Brian comes soon after and gets his own apartment. In Welch Maureen was not doing well so she came to New York when she was twelve and lived with Lori. About a year or two later Rex and Mary Walls come to New York City and live with Lori. Lori cant stand it for too long and kicks them out on the street and they are homeless. Jeannette soon marries Eric who lives on Park Avenue. Brain is a police officer and married, and Maureen moved to California. Soon after Maureen left, Rex dies from heart attack and Jeannette divorces Eric. In section five Jeannette got married to John and they had the whole family over for Thanksgiving dinner. This was a great reunion for all of them .  Im adding the song " These are My People" by Rodney Atkins because it relates to the Walls family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly5Nhca-tZY This is the link to the song, and the lyrics are below.

"These Are My People"

Well we grew up down by the railroad tracks

Shootin' b.b.'s at old beer cans

Chokin' on the smoke from a lucky strike

Somebody lifted off of his old man

We were football flunkies

Southern rock junkies

Crankin' up the stereo

Singin' loud and proud to gimme three steps

Simple Man, and Curtis Lowe

We were good you know

We got some discount knowledge at the junior college

Where we majored in beer and girls

It was all real funny 'til we ran out of money

And they threw us out into the world

Yeah the kids that thought they'd run this town

Ain't runnin' much of anything

We're just lovin' and laughin'

And bustin' our asses

And we call it all livin' the dream

[Chorus]

These are my people

This is where I come from

We're givin' this life everything we've got and then some

It ain't always pretty

But it's real

That's the way we were made

Wouldn't have it any other way

These are my people

Well we take it all week on the chin with a grin

Till we make it to a Friday night

And it's church league softball holler 'bout a bad call

Preacher breakin' up the fight

Then later on at the green light tavern

Well everybody's gatherin' as friends

And the beer is pourin' till Monday mornin'

Where we start all over again

[Chorus]

We fall down and we get up

We walk proud and we talk tough

We got heart and we got nerve

Even if we are a bit disturbed

[Chorus]

Section Three

The Walls family moved in with Rex's parents in Welsh near the Appalachian Mountains. The kids didn't like this town. Jeannette was always being bullied and they had to live with their grandparents who Jeannette described as lazy. Soon after moving to welsh the family got banned from Rex's parents house and had to move somewhere else. They moved to 98 Little Hobart street. This house was so small and had so many issues some people wouldn't even call it a house. Once Jeannette got into high school in Welch she became a writer for the school newspaper and loved it. In  her junior year she was the editor in chief. She left Welch to finish her senior year in new York City where Lori her older sister had moved a year earlier and was doing quite well.

Section Two

I finished the second section of The Glass Castle, “The Desert”. The Walls’ kids were strong for their parents. What kid can say that? The parents are supposed to take care on the kids and be strong for them, that was opposite in the Walls’ case. The first sentence in “The Desert” was “I was on fire.” This was a scary way to start off the story. It kept me reading until the very end though. Jeannette’s parents were very neglectful to her and her siblings. Her dad did this thing called the skedaddle. That must have been a lot of stress on Jeannette and her siblings, because they had to “start over” each time they moved.  On top of this Jeannette’s family was poor. Rex Walls couldn't keep a job, and all their mother wanted to do is paint or draw even though she had a teaching degree. At some points they didn’t have enough money to buy clothes, or even have working showers and toilets at most of their houses. This section of Glass Castle made me realize how blessed I am, and how many opportunities I have. 

I imagine Rex Walls to be like the dad in the book Matilda by Ronald Dahl. This picture is from the movie Matilda which came out in 1996.

Section One

I just read the first section of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The hurt and regret Jeannette must have felt is astonishing. Her mother is homeless and she is living in an apartment in New York City, which can cost up to three thousand dollars a month. When she met her mother at a the restaurant, her mother didn't want Jeannette's help, and I don't think she ever will want help. I added the song "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring One Republic, because I think the song explains what Jeannette's mother is feeling.

Apologize Lyrics:

I'm holding on your rope,
Got me ten feet off the ground
I'm hearin what you say but I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down, but wait
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around, and say...

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall
Take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
But it's nothin new
I loved you with a fire red-
Now it's turning blue, and you say...
"Sorry" like the angel heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid...

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
It's too late to apologize, yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah-
I'm holdin on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground...