The Glass Castle Section 1 Questions

Old, dirty, has rags on her shoulders to keep her warm. She is rummaging through the trash.

She does not want her mom to call out her name. She does not want people to know she knows the homeless woman. She is embarrassed of her mother and ashamed of herself.

When J is dressed elegantly for a party and sees her mom rummaging through the trash.

<p>Proud, simple, doesn't care what others think.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She means that J is too worried about what others think of her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nonfiction story of a person's life from birth to death or to present day. It is as true as possible and based on factual evidence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nonfiction story of a person's life, written by that person from birth to present day of their life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is written by an author about his/her own life telling about a certain period of time or about a certain part of their life. Comes from the writer's memory and is understood to be as factual as memory permits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To place two concepts, characters, ideas, or places near or next to each other so that the reader will compare and contrast them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An author's use of humor to give the reader or audience an emotional break from the tension and heavy mood of a serious or tragic plot.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being on fire while attempting to cook hotdogs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J says cooking hotdogs was not hard and describes how she did it. The staff is shocked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They think she is abused and/or neglected at home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J likes the quietness of the hospital and that she has her own room. She also likes the food. She loves the hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He cracked his head open after falling off the couch. Instead of putting Brian in the hospital, he was wearing dirty bandages because the Walls parents did not want 2 kids in the hospital at the same time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To sprint out of the hospital with Dad without paying any bills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rex Walls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rose Mary Walls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brian Walls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lori Walls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lilly Ruth Maureen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vitalis, whiskey, and cigarettes. He smells like home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J is fascinated by fire.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her face melts after J brings a match too close to it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To run away from their current home. They do the skedaddle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The family shoves necessities into the car. Whatever can't fit doesn't go.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad throws the cat Quixote out of the car because he didn't like to travel. To rectify the situation, they sang songs and told her Quixote would be happier as a wild cat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That they would be moving a lot in the years to come.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad smoked his cigarettes from the wrong end so no one could trace the brand of the cigarettes back to him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mom's mom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They're constantly arguing. Grandma Smith thinks Dad is a loser and doesn't understand why Mom married him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mom seems to take care of the ELA, arts, humanities. Dad teaches mathematics and survival skills like shooting a gun or using a bow and arrow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hot in the day. Cold in the night. Dangerous sandstorms and once in a while thunderstorms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A tool Dad wants to invent to help him find gold.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad is very smart, can't keep a job, cares about his children, gets abusive when drunk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A dream house made entirely out of glass Dad wants to build in the desert with solar cells and water purification.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wants to provide but he may not have the skill set to. They need money to build the house!</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the two first met on Canyon Cliff and Mary Charlene's death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jeannette thinks it's very romantic how they first met.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mom says she really had no choice but to marry him because he wouldn't take no for an answer. Plus, Mom also wanted to get freedom from her mom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Suffering when you're young is good for you because it immunizes your body and soul. Fussing over crying children is only positive reinforcement for negative behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mom accepted it. What was meant to happen happens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad screamed like a wounded animal when he saw her and still can't talk about her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She pulls pieces from her life here and there. Just enough so the reader can understand the story.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make money by gambling in casinos.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unpacking all your things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>11 they could name. After 11, they lost track.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad takes a sharp turn, causing J to tumble out of the car. She stays in the same spot for hours waiting for her family to come back to get her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of the word 'snotlocker' by Dad.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of the dealers found out Dad was cheating and put the word out for him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Matches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fire starts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her life is inconsistent. One little thing could happen and her whole life could be destroyed. Her life is unpredictable and dangerous.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Its branches twist and turn, moving the way the wind pushed it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Joshua tree is beautiful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Joshua tree is ugly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jeanette.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad believes J about the Demon when Lori said it was her overactive imagination. Dad doesn't make her feel like an idiot and makes them tougher, fearless.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She becomes pregnant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cats the family rescued having kittens and then Dad taking them to the mine leaving them to die.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She loves art and writing and does all different types of both. She says she does not want to be 'pigeonholed.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Joshua tree's struggle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They say how others celebrate Christmas is not normal while their lifestyle is not normal at all.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad says Santa is not real but then says the FBI is after him instead of the bill collectors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad loves the stars.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stars.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It's not a star. It's the planet Venus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J loves them and even wants to keep one as a pet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mom says she had Lori for 14 months. Dad says there's no way unless Lori is part elephant. Mom gets mad and says her kids are extraordinary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She gets out of the car and tries to run away.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad chases her with the car and it seems like he's going to run her over and kill her. Dad eventually corners mom and throws her back into the car.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It doesn't. The next day they act as if nothing happened.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J was a great reader and her teacher always picked on her when the principal came in. Other students didn't like her because she was tall, pale, skinny, and participated in class a lot.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her father's methods are all she knows. She thinks everyone fights like her dad does all the time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brian threatens them with a branch. The bullies are not scared off. Brian fights with the branch while J throws rocks at their heads.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No; both of them got beat up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That she'd always take care of her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She wants to study her like a subject she'd painting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The police found the brake lights of the car were not working. If the cops stopped them, they would find out the car wasn't registered, he had no insurance, and the license plate was from another car.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At first she says it's going to be an adventure. This indicates she's a bit of a daredevil and also optimistic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The back doors of the truck open.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Prospector is securely tied by ropes in the truck so it doesn't move and break.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad has a great care for the Prospector. This same care is not shown for the kids who were sliding around the back and screaming.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad is angry, saying they could've gone to jail after the driver behind them signaled Dad to pull over. J says he is also scared.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A piano.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad designs a system of ropes and pulleys to get the piano into the house but mom drives the car a little too fast, breaking the door frame of the house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They would jump off the depot's roof, using a blanket as a parachute. They would put a piece of scrap metal at the railroad tracks and wait for the train to come and flatten it. They used a piece of cardboard to go toboganning down the depot's narrow staircase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad would make 2 statements of a fact and the kids would have to answer a question based on the facts or say 'insufficient information to draw a conclusion' and explain why.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Never play the slots. [...] They're for suckers who rely on luck,' said by Rex Walls.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A saying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Owl Club claims to be world famous. It had a bar filled with men who all knew and joked with Dad. There were slot machines with flashing bright lights. The waitress was nice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Walls enjoyed living in Battle Mountain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Blythe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Battle Mountain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dad worked as an electrician in the barite mine. The rent of the house and the cost of food came directly out of his paycheck so he was not spending the money on drinking and such.</p> Signup and view all the answers