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Alanta Van Den Biggelaar

Alanta Van Den Biggelaar

Joined September 2023

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Alanta Van Den Biggelaar
The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls
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On page 195, Rose Mary painted an image of a lady drowning in a stormy lake. This would be considered a symbol of her true feelings. It shows how she feels inside with all the pressure she feels from her family to get a job. It also means that she has too much on her plate, mentally and physically.
Jeannette wrote this story in this way because it shows that her mother was doing what she thought was best. The mother does not show many emotions..

Alanta Van Den Biggelaar But when she does, everything is let out. she was bottling things up for a long time, and when she lets it out it is like she is drowning in emotions.
I also do this so I understand how it feels when you can not control your emotions. When you are not able to stop crying, or you are just overly mad for no reason.
It was used in this way to create pathos from the reader. We feel pity for the mother because we have all had a moment where everythin
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Alanta Van Den Biggelaar everything is just too much and we feel like nothing is going our way.
It was smart to use both symbol and pathos because it makes the reader feel more connected to the book.

In the first comment, I mean her best as she is deciding what to do. She uses painting as a way to escape. It helps her make difficult choices

Thanks for introducing me to this book it is going on my x-mas wish list!
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MissYaremcio She has other memoirs too that you can look at! If you come West, I have a few of them I can loan you! 13mo
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Alanta Van Den Biggelaar
The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls
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Pickpick

This book is incredible! It will make you want to cry and yell at the same time. The Glass Castle tells the story of a young girl trying to find her place in her highly dysfunctional family.
Everywhere she goes, chaos and mania follows. Whenever her family begins to settle down and her life gains some semblance of normalcy, the little world she has created for herself is striped away as she moves once again.

Alanta Van Den Biggelaar The father would be considered a round character. One of his main traits is making empty promises. Like how he promised he would stop drinking.
After reading more about his past you start to realize that he is only doing what he was taught.
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Alanta Van Den Biggelaar One main theme that is seen though out the story is fire. As it represents destruction and death that follows Jeannette and her family. We first see this in the fist story she tell, when she was only 3 years old she had to go to the hospital because she got burnt from cooking hotdogs.
Fire starts to appear every time something bad happens to the family.
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Alanta Van Den Biggelaar I had everything typed out but I somehow forgot the major theme! Good thing I checked before Monday!!
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MissYaremcio Just a little doggie!!! Fire wouldn't necessarily be a theme, but a symbol of a theme. 5/6 14mo
julesG @MissYaremcio You're posting your students' marks on social media? Ever heard of data protection? I don't think this is the platform for teaching experiments. 14mo
Alanta Van Den Biggelaar @julesG
As the person whose mark was posted I do not take issue with it, so your opinion holds little baring. Also, it is one mark out of the whole year and I don't mind having people see I only received 83%. In today's world everything we do loops into social media so this is a complete nonissue.
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