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.