The Walls family keeps doing the skadaddle throughout various places like California, Nevada and Arizona. While living in these different exotic places, Rose Mary, Jeannette`s mom gets pregnant along the way and also claims that her previous children including Jeannette were born in a period longer than 9 months, in fact they were born around 13 or 14 months and that's why her children are so smart and intelligent. Jeannette lived many though experiences throughout the book , for example when the Walls family stopped at a little town, Jeannette and her siblings were left in a motel room and Jeannette, while playing with fire burned the rooms curtain and the room after a couple of minutes gets entirely burned but luckily jeannette and her siblings get rescued by her father. This and other sad memories along the way. After a few months while living in a town called Blythe, Rose Mary gave birth to the new member of the family, Maureen. Immediately after maureen was born the family moved from Blythe to another place called Battle Mountain which Rex had researched and said it was a great place to get rich since there was a lot of gold there and if they found it they would have enough to build the Glass Castle. Battle Mountain was good pace for the Walls family, Rex got hired as an electrician at mine. Jeannette and her siblings went to school were they  made friends who lived in their neighborhood. Jeannette started a rock collection of beautiful minerals, some looked like gold. She and her brother Brian also began to pretend that the dump was their laboratory and so the mixed a bunch of stuff which a whole little wood house and again their dad saved both of them. Unfortunately after six months within being hired, Rex got fired so that he could get more time to find gold, become rich and build the Glass Castle. After rex lost his job, the Walls family ate less and less food almost none, sometimes food would last about 4 days when Rex managed to get money by gambling.

QUOTES

“Sink or swim!”

This is what Rex said to Jeannette the time he took her and children to swim but Jeannette didn't know how to. Rex taught Jeannette how to swim by just throwing her into the water let Jeannette learn for herself although this did not took only one try. Jeannette would shake desperately trying to grab her dad in order to get out but Rex let go until she would sink and then try again. Crazy thing is that she did learned by that insane method. When I read this I, again was amazed of what a crazy family Jeannette had, when I read this I said to myself, Why would someone do something like that? The fact that Jeannette shows no judgement or something else against her father makes me infer that , those type of crazy things became kind of normal to her.

CONCLUSION

Honestly this book just can not stop surprising me. It is just crazy ! I just want to keep reading and find out what happens next, does she ever leave her parents or maybe they get rich and live a happy and normal life afterwards? I just don't know , after all she had been through how did Jeannette Walls managed to rise up from the point where she has absolutely nothing to were she accomplishes a successful and admirable life.