Crazy Parents

After Rex got fired things got complicated. The family was starving of hunger, if they had food they would have almost none which is why one day Jeannette ate the last bar of butter that was left and her mother started shouting with rage towards Jeannette because she was intending to eat it, Jeannette told her she was very hungry, then both Jeannette and Rose Mary hugged and started crying they didn't want to live in that kind of poverty anymore. Rex would disappear during the day and spend it drinking. Rose Mary started and big argument with Rex because they had nothing to eat  and so he had to do something, Rex told her to find a job and so she did as a teacher. Rose Mary doesn't enjoy teaching because that would be the job that she would do if she failed her career as an artist. She got criticised for her lack of discipline control over the children she didn't thought that rules were necessary in children. Rex still was unemployed and even though Rose was the only one of the Walls with a job, Rex, still managed to gain control over Rose’s  money income and he would throw away that money by wasting it on alcohol and other unnecessary things, unimportant. It is a hard time for the Walls were the kids have to suffer through bad experiences. Even when it is Brian’s birthday his dad bought him a comic book and took a woman out to dinner called Ginger so that Brian would enjoy his birthday since Brian though that the woman was nice, but his dad and Ginger ended up leaving Brian with his comic alone while his dad and Ginger disappeared for very long time. Afterwards Ginger says that she likes Brian’s comic book and Rex makes him give his birthday present to Ginger.

QUOTES

“Tell them that we like eating margarine,” I said. “Then maybe they’ll stop fighting”.   

This happened while Rex and Rose Mary because Rose was sick of living in extreme poverty, where they had nothing to eat but some pieces of margarine. When I read this it really makes me really sad. Not because of the parents but those innocent children that unfortunately have to live with two irresponsible parents who can’t even provide basic needs for children it makes me really.

“She had to punish someone, and she didn’t want to upset the other kids,” Lori said.

After Rose Mary got into a fight with Rex about their resources, she went and applied to a job  as a teacher of middle school, she got accepted to teach Lori’s class. Rose was chastised because she let her students do anything they wanted, no discipline. The principle warned her that she had to enforce discipline or else she would lose the job. She didn’t obey but so that she didn't get fired, one day the principal entered into the classroom and Rose, in order to show the principle that she now enforced discipline she screamed at her daughter Lori and even whipped her with a wooden paddle. This couple of parents just can’t stop surprising me and not in a positive way. Again I feel sorry for those children because from what I read that woman is a psychopath.

CONCLUSION  

This was definitely one of the craziest parts that I’ve read until now of the Glass Castle. I it is shocking, the way that Jeannette and her sibling lived during this their childhood, very tough childhood very tough. I think that maybe one of the reasons this book became famous and successful is because of the madness that Jeannette had to live and experience at her childhood and adolescence. Still can’t believe that this actually happened in real life.