The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

       I am currently reading the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. This book is a biography on Jeannette Walls and her crazy childhood life. Her family is always on the run, something about them that isn't said is bad. I mean the FBI is after them and Walls and her siblings doesn't have the average kid like anymore. 

      In the beginning, Jeannette doesn't understand what's really happening. Like, every time they run away from the FBI, she thinks it's adventure. "I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like indians." Another Inference I could make is that her childhood is getting taken away from her. I mean the only toy she had was a Tinkerbell doll. And that doll had a smudged up face because it melted. She misplaced it and forgot it the last place they "lived." When I heard that she left her doll in the last place, I felt like that was a very important moment of her life. It was kinda like the moment where she leaves her childhood behind. That doll represented the heart of her childhood. But when she left Tinkerbell, she still has her cat Quixote. When Quixote made weird noises and started scraping things her dad threw Quixote though the window. While her heart was taken out, she still tried to enjoy her life. I mean many kids would dream to have lives like this. Later on in the chapter, she says that "After a while, I forgot about Quixote and Tinkerbell and the friends I left in the Trailer Park." This shows that she grew up. She is really grown-up. I mean she once cooked hot dogs and got burned. She was hospitalized. After she is taken from the hospital, she then cooks hot dogs again. How does her gut tell her to that? I mean why touch something that hurt you? Is it to live?

        After reading 1/5 of the book I can infer that Jeannette is enjoying her life but she will have to encounter somethings that will trigger her memory forever. For example, I think she will notice that her mother is not always going to be there. Since she's pregnant with two kids, her mother doesn't really want to live this life anymore. I think there will some problems with her dad going on. She is also being departed from the story a lot. It's like a character that doesn't really matter. But a mom is a lot things. It could become really hard with a temper-dad and a life like this. I wonder how her life is going to become clear again. I wonder how it will all add up and if the FBI ever caught them.