"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society...Literacy is a platform for demostration, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity...Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential." ---Kofi Annan

20 October, 2007

Glass Castle post 9

Now...Dun,dun,dun!!! Please welcome....The very interesting neighborhood of Phoenix!!

Okay, the deal is that...
The neighborhood was filled with Gypsies and perverts. There was a little conflict between Jeannette's mother and the Gypsies (This is funny):
Since the Gypsies always steel properties of the Walls, and one day, Jeannette's mother actually witnessed a Gypsy bouncing on Brian's pogo stick, and she was furious. She yelled at the Gypsies and tell them to go away. However, the Gypsy wasn't very happy with that, and you know the deal with the mystical power that Gypsies possess, the next day, the Walls found dead chicken with its throat cut open by their front door. Then, Jeannette's mother was even more mad, she decided to "fight magic with magic". She held up a bone that she took out of their ham like a crucifix at an exorcism, and called down curses to the entire Gypsy clan and their house, saying that it will collapse and the earth will open up and swallow them forever. And the next day, the Walls found their pogo stick in the front yard.

Conflict with perverts (This is hilarious):
Apparently, Jeannette was kind of attacked by a pervert on the way back home. He offered to play with Jeannette and, of course, she yelled no and kicked him. But, that's not it, she went home and explained everything with Brian and they went on a ... PERVERT HUNT!!! ::sigh:: Kids...they can change everything into games, or, into the product of their overactive imaginations... So they searched for blocks, but didn't find him. When their father came home, and Jeannette described the attack to her father, he swore that he will -BEEP- that -BEEP-...(bad language, parents supervision advised...) And he actually went out with the two kids to do their pervert hunting...

Well, I'm probably not going to post anymore...so...people, take care, have fun, and enjoy your book...

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