Glass castle flash cards (jeanette)
(58 cards)
1) Gets burned by the fire
- Shows how at an early age she was independent and responsible for her own care.
2) What does Rex say about burns
“Burns need to breathe”
3) Does she continue cooking alone after her incident
Yes she does continues to cook alone
4) What does Dad say about Jeanette and her resilience after her fire accident?
“She already fought the fire once and won”
5) How is jeanette obsession with fire show?
- Tried to show her favorite toy fire but it melted tinker belles face, it melted. She loved her anyways and way they left the house she had hoped the next little girl did as well.
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6) What did Dad toss out the window during their move.
The cat
7) What do the kids compare themselves to?
A cactus they did not eat regularly and could withstand the tough conditions in the desert
8) What was the start of Rex’s Drinking and angry mood start
- After the trauma of finding his baby dead in the crib
9) What does Jeannette feel when she falls out of the car.
(She feel out of the car because her Dad was drinking and smoking while driving)
- Waited for a long time for her parents to come back.
- “They might decide it wasn’t worth the drive back to retrieve me” - felt like the cat they had thrown out of the car - Too much of a burden to keep around.
10) How did jeanette Torture fire
“Giving it life than sniffing it out”
- Lit things / toilet paper on fire than flushed it down
11) What was the second fire incident?
the hotel fire that started while they were sleeping.
11) What was the important quotes from the second fire incident?
“Wondered if all the fire was out to get her”
All she knew was that she did “Live in a world that at any moment could erupt in fire”.
12) What did Jeanette’s Dad tell her when she’s afraid of the night.
“as soon as you stare them down they run away”
13) Why does her Dad call he mountain goat
Because when they were climbing up a mountain she never fell down - Symbolic because despite all the challenges her family faces she continues on.
14) What did jeannette feel about the Joshua tree and how did it differ from her mom’s view.
- jeanette wanted to uproot a joshua tree and take care of it.
- Mom said that if Jeanette did that she would be “destroying what made it special”
That the struggle was what gave it its beauty.
15) Pool incident
They visited the natural hot spring and her dad teaches her to swim by throwing her in telling her she could “Sink or Swim” and that if she didn’t want to sink she would need to learn how to swim.
16) She got jumped by school girls
DAD played it off - but Brian defended her.
17) What happens the first time they are riding in the back of a uhaul truck
The doors fly open and they have to protect maureen.
18) What were Moms Rules regarding how Kids should be raised.
She believed that kids should not be burdened with too many rules. They should be free to explore and make mistakes that way they can learn and adapt.
19) What was the third fire incident?
It was when Brian and Jeanette were experimenting with toxic waste. They were testing to see if any of the waste was flammable and set the shed they were working in on fire.
They got a little too close to the boundary line.
The boundary line in a flame was the point her dad told her was where rules don’t exist.
20) How did brian and Jeanette make money
They found pieces of scrap metal and cans to turn them into the depot as a way of making money.
21) What did Lorri and the kids eat when they had no other food
Butter and Sugar
22) Mom disagreed with the way they lived with little food.
Argument ended with Mom hanging out the window.
23)Neighbour Billy Rapes Jeanette and than later came back with a BB gun and started shooting at the kids. Were the parents present during this time?
No, Mom and Dads free range parenting approch left the kids in danger.
Defended themselves with a pistol
