The Glass Castle Prompt

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The Glass Castle Prompt Jeannette Walls started her book “The Glass Castle” off when she was cooking hot dogs because I believe that already in the first couple pages in the book, we can easily realize that her life was not as normal as many other children. Three year olds are not usually known to make their own food, especially hot dogs which need heat and fire to cook. You can also see that the parents are very easy going and that the kids are self-sufficient even in their early lives. The danger of the situation also strikes the reader and pulls them into her life in the beginning of the book, making the reader want to read more for they want to find out what happens to Jeannette in that incident, and what happens to her after. After her accident with the hot dogs, Jeannette is left with very large, noticeable scars all around her stomach area. Having scars on her stomach as suvior as she does, she gets very self-conscious of them, thinking that not many people will accept her for who she is and judge her for having them, or in worse cases treat her differently. In one incident when she was at the pool and changing into her swimsuit, she says “ I was going on thirteen and self-conscious, so I planned to slip my bathing suit on underneath my dress, but I worried this would only make me more conspicuous, so I took a deep breath and stepped out of my clothes. The scar on my stomach was about the size of my outstretched hand, and Dinitia noticed it immediately.” (Walls, 191.) Here you can see that she is nervous about her body, but in the end, Dinitia states “ It ain’t so bad,” and that made Jeannette feel a lot more welcome in their pool morning together. I believe that by Jeanette choosing this particular part of her life for the first occurrence in her book instead of another one, it starts us off at an early time period of her life. To have even remembered

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