Glass Castle post 2

As the story continues, Jeannette's life became more and more, well, unorthodox. Her family was trying to escape from the FBI, they move around constantly, looking for small towns, etc. However, I also learned that her father always had this dream of building a glass castle. 'All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that [glass castle]. Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our glass castle.'(25) Jeannette's family was searching gold in the endless desert, just hoping for the best chance thus they can eventually build a glass castle.

The glass castle, in my opinion, resembles unreachable, untouchable dreams that people have in their heart. Those dreams are like motivations that keep people moving through their repetitive, boring life. Although to most people, those dreams ARE impossible to reach, and they know that, yet still blindly believe in the dream and 'try' to accomplish it. That, I think, is the beauty of dreams. No matter how discouraged, dispirited you are, you can always remind yourself: oh, I still have this dream (goal), and drown in your own imagination of success, become numb to the reality. Dreams are one type of drug that's legal; they provide a way to escape from reality.