Section Two

The home in Welch at which the Wall's family had

 lived in at one time.

In the middle of the novel, “The Glass Castle” we begin to see some peace from traveling from place to place. The Walls family settled in with Rex’s mom, Jeannette’s grandmother, in Welch. Welch was different from most places they stayed at, it for one allowed them to enroll in school, get meals on the regular, and the weather seemed to be completely different. I felt a little better when they stayed there, except for the grandmother. She was a lady who didn’t seem like one, I disliked her from the first mention of her.  After a scuffle between the children and her occurred they moved out and onto Little Hobart Street. There they lived in what seemed to be a rundown shack on the top of a hill. This was something they were looking forward to, owning something of their own besides her other grandmother’s inheritance in Phoenix. I had intentions that the family would be like any normal one, getting jobs and going to school and eating food on the daily. I almost threw my book when I would find out that Rex would go out and use the money, they had earned to buy food, on gambling or for alcohol and cigarettes. I have decided that I dislike the parents of the Walls family and don’t plan on changing my mind about them. I feel like the parents take their children for granted because they’re always there and don’t worry about them turning against them.