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Castle
Caleb A. Todd
Theme
After reading the novel “The glass castle” the theme would only truly reveal itself at the end of the story. After the
children struggle to grow up properly despite their parents disability to parent properly, it may turn out to be some convoluted
life lesson that everyone may be missing.
While reading the book and being able to somewhat relate to its contents it was hard to tell exactly what was right or
wrong, almost as if i were a naive child again who was new to life. Probably because that may be how we all feel when faced
with problems that we do not have the answers too or have faced but simply regret the actions we choose.
When seen on paper there may be no doubt that the parents in the story are not to be trusted, but despite it all the
question remains : “ did they do a bad job?” when looking at the results it's really hard to say, seeing as though all the children
have grown up to be quite successful.
Theme: while it may be weird or indifferent but love is love, it just may be hard to tell the difference what's true or false.
The glass castle
First off it be obvious to some more than other
but, Rex Walls does seem to be a father who cares
about his family despite his own shortcomings.
Rather than taking out his failures out on his family
he continues to dream on improving their life while
keeping his children full of hope.
“Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he A.K.A TOUGH LOVE
never would have let me drown, but you can’t
cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson
every parent needs to teach a child is “If you
don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to
swim.”
Strongest man
While the audience can tell already but, Rex
is somewhat a broken man who appears to almost
never have anything he's planned go his way.
Even after almost the entire family loses faith in
him except for his daughter Jeannette, Rex is still
committed in doing what's best for his family so
much in fact that he would later give up drinking
“I swear, honey, there are times when I think for two months and hold down a good job all for
you’re the only one around who still has faith in his daughter jeannette.
me,” [Dad] said. “I don’t know what I’d do if you
ever lost it.” I told him that I would never lose
faith in him. And I promised myself I never
would.”
Goodbye Rex
Even after all of his children ran away from
home in order to become successful and
constantly calling him out on his shortcomings he
never once hated his children, even after
Jeannette told him he would never build the glass
castle and ran away from home, he never once
hated her.
Fire is an object frequently personified in "The Glass While the family was starving for food, Jeannette describes
Castle." First when Jeannette is cooking hot dogs and her dress her family as cactus."We were sort of like the cactus. We ate
catches fire. "... the flames leaped up... " she recalls. Later, Walls irregularly, and when we did, we'd gorge ourselves." she states.
describes fire as "testing" her, "trying to escape" a garbage can These similes help the family's feelings about their situation
and actually "...being out to get me."Finally at the end of the really come to life.
novel , where the candle flames on the window are described to
be"...dancing along the border between turbulence and order."