Glass Castle 3 . . .

Well this week my reading in the glass castle was very interesting. The Walls family has just recently moved into an abandoned train station in the quaint desert town of Battle Mountain. This dust bowl of a city embodies the stereotype of a western mining post. the buildings, which surround one main street, are made mostly of adobe and brick and don't rise more than one story. Beyond these super markets and "sun-bleached cars" (Walls 51), lies the the train station where he Walls now call home.
As I was reading it really struck me that, what most families would consider to be a worn down, dirty and scary place to stay, the Walls think is a beautiful, characterized and adventurous place to live. It seems that mr. and mrs. Walls are not always the most reasonable people on the planet, but they still make sure that their children are happy, no matter what the circumstances. The author even includes an experience in which she and her siblings went through a time when they had to sleep on cardboard boxes, but when their parents started talking about getting the kids mattresses, they said they, "liked our boxes. they make going to bed seem like an adventure." I thought this was a very revealing insight into the dynamic of the Walls family and showed that even with nothing the parents had taught their children to be content.