Review of The Glass Castle (2017) by Julianachavez11 — 05 May 2018

The Glass Castle is a novel based on true story written by Jeannette Walls. The book starts off when she's about three years old and follows her growing up. With her drunk but very loving father and her big dreams mother, Jeannette didn't get a perfect life style.

She had three other siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen. Jeannette was in the middle of the mix of the siblings. The novel starts off with Jeannette getting badly burned while she was cooking hot dogs for herself all at the age of three, now you can see that her parents were not much around to care for their children.

She writes more about her life and growing up and all the adventures she had. Rex Walls was always losing his jobs and then not getting one that worked for the city. Rose Mary Walls went to college and has a teaching degree but doesn't teach unless they make her because her dreams are to become a famous artist painter.

They moved states a lot, probably every couple years. She talks about everything that went on in their lives and how it impacted all of them in many ways. Towards the ending of the novel she talks about how Lori and her move to New York City away from their parents for a better lifestyle.

All is well and Jeannette even meets a man and gets married. It ended and she gets a divorce and gets remarried, Jeanette’s fathers passes away from a heart attack. At the very end she invites her whole family over for Thanksgiving and raises a toast for her father.