My book:
 I really liked The Glass Castle. The book was never boring, and it always kept you wondering what was going to happen next. I also like how Jeannette explained everything. She always gave lots of detail and told you how she was feeling. The book makes you feel what she felt. When her parents were mean to her, it makes you feel sorry for her. She grew up with barely anything and it makes you realize all that you have. I would recommend this book to everybody.

 

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Summary: In this chapter Jeannette needs two-thousand dollars for school. She only has a thousand, so she's going to drop out of school. She tells Rex, and he gives her a thousand dollars. Jeannette finishes school. Rex and Rose move into an abandoned house and Jeannette moves in with her boyfriend Eric. She marries Eric four years later. Rose comes to Jeannette asking for a million dollars to buy her uncles' land, because she wants to keep it in the family. Jeannette won't give her the money...

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Summary: In this chapter Jeannette is 18 years old and living in New York City. She goes to a public school, but instead of going to classes she signs up for internships. Jeannette signs up for a weekly newspaper called "The Phoenix". Jeannette convinces Brian to come and live with her and Lori in New York. Brian agrees and comes. Jeannette applies for college and was accepted. She's hired as an editorial assistant at one of the biggest magazines in the city. Lori, Jeannette and Brian don't t...

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Summary: In this chapter Lori tries to get a scholarship, but every time she tries something goes wrong. She made a clay bust of Shakespeare for a scholarship, but Rex was drunk and he ruined it. So Lori didn't get that scholarship. Jeannette, Lori, and Brian have been putting all their money in "Oz". Oz is a piggybank. One day after school Jeannette comes home and goes to her room. Oz is smashed and on the ground. All their money is gone. Rex is the one who stole the money. They've been savi...

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Summary: In this chapter Jeannette gets a job at the local jewellery store, because Rex and Rose don't have jobs and the family is very poor. Jeannette says she's seventeen so she can get the job. She's actually 13. When Lori gets back from her summer camp she tells Jeannette that as soon as she's done high school she's getting out of Welch, and going to New York City. She looks forward to leaving her family. Jeannette decides to stand up to her family. Rex gets mad and hits her with his belt...

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Summary: Child Welfare come to their house. Jeannette is the only one home. He asks her a few questions, than says he'll be back later. Jeannette convinces Rose to get a job in case the Child Welfare man comes back. Even though Rose gets a job, they're basically living like they where before. Nobody knows what Rose is doing with the money. She says that they're using it all, but Jeannette doesn't believe her. Jeannette's friend Dinita starts changing. When Jeannette asks her what's wrong she ...

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Summary: In this chapter they are very low on money. For food, Jeannette goes back to looking in the garbage can at school. Rose is sneaking food, and not giving any to her kids. In the winter it's so cold that the house doesn't have water. They can't afford to keep the fire going, so the house is always freezing. Erma (Rex's mother) dies their second winter there. We find out that Jeannette wants to be a Veterinarian or a geologist. Brian and Jeannette find a wedding ring in the house. Jeann...
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Summary: We find out that somebody stole almost everything in their house in Phoenix. The stuff that wasn't stolen, they tried to bring back, but the car broke down so they had to abandon all of their stuff. The family buys a very old house. They plan to build the glass castle on the land. Jeannette and Brian start digging a hole for the foundation. The family is so broke that they put their garbage in the hole. Jeannette wants to fit in so she starts painting her house so that it will look...

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Summary: In this chapter the family drives to West Virginia. It takes them a month to get there. They plan to live with Rex's mom and dad. When they get to the small town named Welch they go and meet their grandparents. Their grandma named Elma is very mean, and their grandpa is nice. Their enrolled in Welch elementary school. Everyday Jeannette is beat up by the other girls in her class. Even the teachers are mean to them. Jeannette saves a kid from a dog. She takes him home, and one of the ...
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Summary: In this chapter Rex takes his family to the zoo to show them that if you're not afraid of the animals, than they won't hurt you. A couple days later Rex loses his job, and gets kicked out of the electricians' union. The family goes broke. When there's no food Brian and Jeannette go to the Dumpster to find food. Rose wants Maureen to have nice clothes, so they start shoplifting at the thrift store and they start steeling from the bank. They usually have Christmas about a week after Ch...
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Summary: At the beginning of this chapter Jeannette finds out that her Grandma Smith (Rose's mother), has died. She left them lots of money and a house. The family moves in to the house, Rex gets a job, and the kids all get their first bikes. Things tern around in this chapter, and everybody is happy.

Main characters: The main characters in this chapter are Jeannette, Rex, Rose, Brian, Lori, and Maureen.

Character development: Jeannette finds out what it's like to have a bit of money. She i...

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Summary: Jeannette terns 8 years old, and a kid named Billy moves to Battle Mountain. Billy is 11 years old, and he really likes Jeannette. One day he takes her to his house. They get into a fight and Jeannette leaves. The next day Billy gives her a ring. Jeannette takes it, but she doesn't want people to think that her and Billy are boyfriend and girlfriend so she doesn't wear it. While they're playing hide and seek Billy tries to kiss her but she bites him, and he stops. Billy is mad, so th...

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Summary: In the beginning of this chapter Rex losses his job. The family has to cut back on eating and spending money. Rex and Rose get into a huge fight. Everyone is outside listening to them fight when all of the sudden, the second story window breaks and Rose's paintings come flying out. Rose is next. She's hanging out the window saying that Rex is trying to kill her. The kids run upstairs to help. When Rose gets back into the room, Rex says that she did that. We don't find out who did it....
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Summary: Jeannette and her family live in an old railroad depot in Battle Mountain. Rex gets a job as a electrician. One day after school, Jeanette and her brother Brian go to their "laboratory" (an old shed) with flammable stuff from the dump. They put a match on the flammable stuff and the shed catches on fire. Jeannette runs to get help for her brother, and sees her dad walking home from work. They save Brian. Jeannette learns how to swim.

Main characters: In this chapter the main character...
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Summary: In this chapter Jeanette is 5, and it's Christmas. For Christmas Rex gives each of them a planet or star. Jeannette picks Venus. The family decides to move to Blythe. On the way there Rex and Rose get into a fight. In Blythe, the kids have to go to school. On the way home from school Jeannette gets jumped. The next day her and her brother get jumped. Rose has her baby and her name is Maureen. At the end of the chapter the family moves to Northern Nevada, because it's too hot in Blyth...

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Summary: In this chapter Jeannette falls out of the moving car and her family doesn't relize for a long time. When they come back for her, Rex cleans her up. They go to Las Vegas so Rex can win some money at casinos. The casinos figure out that Rex is cheating, and the Walls family has to move again.They go to San Francisco, and live in a hotel, but it burns down. They deside to go to the desert again and rent a house. Rose is pregnant, and devoted to painting and writing.

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 Summary: In this chapter Jeannette and her family are always moving from town to town. At every small town they stop, they aren't there very long. They live in Nevada, California, and Arizona. Jeannette's dad Rex, is working on building "the prospecter". It will sort through the sand and find gold. Once they find gold, Rex is going to build a glass castle.

Main characters: The main characters are Jeannette, Rex, Rose, Brian (Jeannette's brother), and Lori (Jeanette's sister).

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Summary: In this chapter Jeannette is 3 years old, making hot dogs. She bends over to give her dog a hot dog when her dress catches on fire. She was severly burned, and rushed to the hospital. While the doctors where treating her injuries, they found bruises and cuts all over her body. The doctors think that her parents where abusing her, but Jeannette says they wheren't. She had to get a skin graft, and all of the right side of her body was covered in bandages. While she was in the hospital,...
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Summary: In the Introduction, Jeannette is in a taxi going to a party, when she looks out the window and sees her homeless mom going through a Dumpster. She ducks down and tells the driver to take her home. When she gets to her apartment she calls her mom's friend and leaves a message. It's their only system of staying in touch. When her mom gets back to her a couple days later, they decide to go to a restaurant. They meet at the restaurant and talk.

Main Characters: Jeannette (the narrator)...

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Title: The Glass Castle
Author: Jeannette Walls
Genre: Adult Fiction

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