The Glass Castle

the book the glass castle by Jeannette Walls it was a great book to read to me it was more of a biography then a story . in the book its about jennette walls and her family and her child hood. it started when one night jennette was on her way to a party and she saw her mother rumbling through a garbage can in NEW york city. then thats when she takes us back to a memory of her young child hood. Jennette walls grew up with 3 siblings. In also in the book we saw that they lived a hard life . she lived with a alchoholic father,who manipulates and uses his wife and his children for his own needs and yet never stops loving them and hoping they love him.really the book is about the adventure Jeannette Walls and her dysfunctional family takes throughout their lives until the four children are old enough to move away from their parents and start over as normal as possible. Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, is an alcoholic who lives life doing the “skedaddle”, running away when you did not have anymore money, and they would go from town, to town living life like scavengers because there was never enough of anything for them since Rex could not hold a job very long and Rose Mary Walls was a struggling artist. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, architecture, math, astrology and how to embrace life fearlessly, which they did with ease because they had to learn at a young age to fend for themselves. After embracing the fact that they were all truly brilliant and life does not have to be what it is, the children make a plan to get away from their parents and start over in New York. They all find a way to build new lifes for themselves. I rate the book a 100/100 it show that all people have hard times in their life.