Page 285-288 Summary

The Glass Castle, Pages 285-288 Summary

Journal Prompt: Have you ever experienced the death of a close family member or friend? If so, how did you you react?





It had been five years since Jeanette’s family lost their dad, Rex, and Jeanette decided it was time for a Walls family get-together. This would be their first get-together since Rex’s funeral. Jeanette only saw her mom occasionally and her mom hadn't even talked to John before. John and Jeanette invited the family to Thanksgiving at their farmhouse they bought the previous year, where John could finally introduce himself. Her mom arrived from the train station in an overcoat, trousers and old sneakers, along with Lori, wearing a black cape and fedora. Jeanette remarked that they made quite the pair.


In the car ride to the farmhouse, John told her mom and Lori all about the area and what it was like. While John was driving, Jeanette thought about all the many reasons why she loved John, one being that he found her scar interesting. He said her scar meant she was stronger than whatever it was that tried to hurt her.


Brian, who had become a decorated sergeant detective, showed up to the gathering as well. The kitchen was filled with a variety of different types of food. Brian commented that it really isn’t that hard to put food on the table if that’s what she decides to do, but Lori told him there would be no recriminations. Jeanette and John showed them their house and their gardens, which even her mom admired.





At the table, Jeanette’s mom toasted to Rex by saying, “Life with your father was never boring.” They all raised their glasses and Jeanette could almost hear her dad laughing at her mom’s comment like he always did when he was truly enjoying something.






Alexa Bally, Val Gavioli, and Damon

The Glass Castle 252-261 Summary

The Glass Castle Summary 252-261

Journal Prompt: Have you ever had a family member diagnosed with a sickness? If not, how would you react? 

Jeannette was living happily in New York City when she hears on the radio that there is a traffic jam on the New Jersey Turnpike. A van broke down and everything spilled out of it including a dog that was being chased by multiple cops down the turnpike. Later that day Jeannette received a phone call. It was her mom to tell her that they have just moved to New York. Jeannette asks them if the broken-down van was them and indeed it was. A couple of times a month the family would get together in New York City. Jeanette’s parents were homeless and they didn’t mind, but Jeanette struggled with their decision. That year the winter was very cold, so Jeannette decided that her parents couldn’t keep living the way they were. Instead of staying at the library just to have heat Jeannette believed they needed to do better for themselves. Jeannette and her mother met up at a coffee shop to talk about the parent’s options of living, but they just ended up talking about movies. A couple of weeks later, Jeannette’s father, Rex, was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He promised Jeannette that he wouldn’t die and that he would rest until healthy.

Prompt: Desmond Purchula

Summary: Jonathan and Lucas
Picture: Lucas

203-213 The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle 203-213

Journal Prompt: Have your parents ever put you in an uncomfortable situation and told you, you would be fine? If not how would you have reacted? 

Summary: 
Jeannette starts working for the school newspaper. She works with the Teacher that she was named after (Miss Jenette Bivens). This is when she first understands and gets a good sense of the world, instead of being told the twisted version her parents tell her. She decides to be a reporter. Jennette's mom left for 8 weeks to renew her teaching certificate in Charleston. This left Jennette in charge of the house. Jennette's mom had left her $200 to buy food, for Brian and Maureen, and pay the water and electricity bills. For the first week, everything was fine but one afternoon Rex asked Jennette for $5 to buy beer and cigarettes. Jennette gave Rex the money. A few days later Rex asks for another $5 and Jennette gives it to him. A few days after that Rex asks for $20 and says he needs the money to make money. Jennette gives Rex the money. That Saturday Rex asks Jennette to accompany him on a business trip. Jennette goes with him to a roadside bar. They both take seats at the bar. After some time Rex gets up to play pool and a man named Robbie seats down next to Jennette. Robbie asks Jennette if she knows how to dance but Jennette shakes her head. Robbie says, " Sure you do " and gets up to dance with her. Jennette gives a stare to her dad and Rex just grins and waves back. Robbie and Jennette dance and then Rex calls Robie over to play him in a game of pool. Rex loses the first match but starts betting more and ends up beating Robbie. After every match, Robbie would dance with Jennette. Eventually, Robbie was down $80 and he quit. He asked Jennette to go upstairs to his apartment which was above the bar. Jennette said she wasn't sure. Robbie shouted at Rex and said, " I'm going to take your girl upstairs." Rex was fine with it and told Jennette to Holler if she needed anything. Rex put Jennette in an uncomfortable situation and acted as if he knew she would be fine. Jennette was very angry at her father and when they went upstairs she never hollered instead she made a quick escape by saying, " I think I hear Dad calling."
Later when they were in the car Jennette tells Rex that the creep attacked her when they were upstairs. Rex said," I knew you could handle yourself, Its like time I threw you into the sulfur spring to teach you to swim, you might have been convinced you were going to drown, but I knew you'd do just fine."
 
  
Kanna & Nick - Worked on Summary and journal prompt
Kanna - Chose Picture

The Glass Castle pages 186-195

Journal Prompt - Have you ever swam in a public pool, if not would you?


SUMMARY

     Brian and Jeannette found a ring in their house, they gave it to their mother to bring to a shop to see how much it was worth. When their mother came home, they asked her how much it was worth because it was apparently a genuine two-carat diamond. She said it didn't matter because she was keeping it because instead of getting the kid's food, she wanted to boost her own self-esteem. Later Jeannette urged her mother to leave her father because they can get some aid for food and clothes from the government. Her mother was disappointed that Jeannette would think of such a thing.
     Brain and Jeanette wanted to go swimming but the kids there made fun of them and told everyone that they had some sort of od disease, so they left without a swim. Jeanette's friend Dinitia told her to come in the morning the next day and swim with her because the kids who were picking on her wouldn't be there. Jeannette went and got to go swimming, she enjoyed it very much. Later when she was home a man knocked on the door. When she opened the door he looked very official. He was there to see the kids because someone had told him that there may be child neglect at that house. Jeanette sent him away quickly when she told her mother, she said she would think about what to do. Later, she told Jeannette that she would get a job.


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- Tristan, Grace, and Mae

Glass Castle Summary pgs 164-174

Glass Castle pgs 164-174

Journal Prompt:
Have you ever gotten in a group fight with another group? If so, was it worth it? If not, what would it take to get into a fight?

Summary

The Walls family had recently moved to Welch, West Virginia. One of the first things that they noticed was all the fighting. Nearly half the people on the streets had a black eye or some sort of injury from combat. Jeannette, Brian, Lori, and Maureen got into more fights than most kids. The other kids would make fun of them for being poor and for living next to a garbage pit. One day Jeannette and Brian were playing on an old tank by the armory when a kid named Ernie and some of his friends came over. They started to tease them and taunt them so Jeannette pushed him back. On Saturday, Ernie and his friends came to their house and started throwing rocks at them. One of them hits Brian in the head. Then Jeannette runs outside and scares them away. They figured he would come back so they built a catapult to throw rocks at them. When they came back, they launched rocks at them and Ernie and his friends ran away. All summer long, dad would disappear for a few days without telling everybody why. One night, he came home with a gash in his arm. He told Jeannette to stitch it up but she couldn’t so he helped her do it. Every once in a while, they would have enough food to go around. When they didn’t, Jeannette and Brian went hunting for food. They often found themselves hungry and rooting through the trash.

Prompt Question and Image: James Mudrick
Summary of Pages: Daniel Bates

The Glass Castle Pages 145-148

                          The Glass Castle pages 145-148

Journal Prompt: Have your parents ever taken a trip without you to a place you wanted to visit? If so, How did that make you feel? If not how do you think you would react? 

Summary: 

Mom and Dad get back to Phoenix to check the house of the stuff they need to bring all the way across the country. While the children were with Erma (Rex’s mother) she became meaner. But unexpectedly Erma sexually assaulted Brian. Jeanette walks in on this happening and she yells an Erma. Erma tries to assault Jeannette but instead slaps Lori. Lori gets back up and punches Erma in the face and down she went. Erma doesn’t allow the kids upstairs anymore so they have to use the storm door to get in and out of the basement. When Dad returns he is very mad but not at Erma at the kids. The kids then think if Erma ever did what she did to Brian to Dad. 

Lainie and Ashley- Worked together to put together the summery

Elizabeth and Zoe- Worked together to find a picture and they came up with a journal prompt

Welch and First day at School: pages 129-139

JOURNAL: What would you do if you went to a new school and you didn’t know anyone there? Why?





SUMMARY:

Rose Mary, Rex, Lori, Jeanette, Brian, and Maureen were driving from Phoenix, Arizona to Welch, West Virginia. In Welch, they meet their Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Stanley. They realize soon that their father’s family is not how they had wanted and that they were almost worse than their father.


Rose Mary and Rex brought them around Welch to show them the history of the town. The town had seemed run down and also could have influenced why her father acted the way he did. Her mother enrolled Jeanette and Brian into the elementary school where they were told that they had disabilities because they spoke faster than the western accented principal. In the class, she had tried to show she didn’t have a disability but the teacher and class made fun of her, they even physically hurt her.


On the first day at her new school, it was a rainy, dreary day. During her class which was "English for students with learning disabilities," a question was asked by the teacher and Jeanette didn't agree with the said question, so she didn't raise her hand. This then prompted the teacher to mock her defense on why she didn't agree in front of the class and say Phoenix like "'Feeeeenix'". After being humiliated by her teacher, Miss Caparossi, the girl behind Jeanette poked her between the shoulder blades with a sharp pencil, only to beat her up after school.


Jeanette was threatened and beaten up because the other students thought that she was trying to be better than them. This was due to her mother telling her that she should try to be better than them. Jeanette's bullies pushed her onto the ground, in the rain and mud and started to kick her to their heart's content.