Glass Castle post 1

The Glass Castle is a book about an everyday girl who lives an unordinary life. The way she lived was, by today's standards, unorthodox. The first memory she has is from when she was three and accidentally lit herself on fire while making hot dogs. Once she leaves the hospital, Rex Walls style (basically her father picks her up and they leave without paying the bills), she is back to making hot dogs and her father has her wave her hand over a flame so as not to be afraid of fire. However, eventually she becomes obsessed with fire and melts her favorite toy.

People often found themselves can't open entirely to, accept and live with the reality with a satisfied manner. They can found themselves telling lies, covering up things for not to embarrass themselves. For instance, Jeannette, the author, hides and pretends that she had not seen her mother when witnessing her picking things out of the dumpster. However, Jeannette’s mother became less easily caught by surfaces of things. '"Just tell the truth," mom said. "That's simple enough."'(5) was Jeannette’s mother’s answer when her daughter asked her what she should say if her friends ask her about her parents. When people start, let’s put it this way, ‘having a life’, they put attention to things that are in their control, for example, friends, fame, career, etc. and fear to lose any of them. Yet, what they don’t realize is that as they are trying to hold firmly onto material wealth, they are probably losing things that are very important to them which they might think, at that time, worth absolutely nothing. The quote from Jeannette’s mother let me rethink about many things. Didn’t we all grow up this way: giving off the very sincere, truthful and simple answer to any question? Since when we started to put the way others view us into top priority? When we acted, or at least looked like careless about things, were there doubts in out mind that we just decided to ignore? After all the struggling, what was gained? What was lost?