PLN #2

           The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tells a story about one very dysfunctional family, they move a lot, have trouble taking care of their children, and sometimes want to kill each other. The Walls family is always on the move, whether it’s because it’s too hot, or to boring or they are running from something. “The next day he announced that Blythe had become a little too how and we were hitting the road again.”(Page 48) The Walls family is also struggling to take care of their children, for one move the kids had to sit in the back of a U-Haul, they had no light, no seatbelts and they couldn’t talk. “We got to ride in the back. It would be fun, she said, a real adventure, but there wouldn’t be any light, so we would have to use all our resources to entertain one another.” (Page 48) At the time the mom had just given birth so there was little baby Maureen in Jeanette’s arms. The parents also have tried to kill each other. “We shot forward toward Mom, who screamed and jumped out of the way. Dad turned around and went for her again.”(Page 43) The Mom and Dad had just recently got in an argument over how long the Mom had been pregnant, 11 or 12 months. The Mom had argued that she always carried babies longer than the normal person and the dad disagreed. I'm betting that the rest of the book will end up continuing on like this but getting even worse as the kids grow up.