Reading Response "The Glass Castle"

   I absolutley love the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. It shows something most people wouldn't even, no wouldn't even bother to think of. It shows the true side of America "the Beautiful".
   When people think of America, they think of everything being perfect. Seldom do others think of the places that seem as if they were third-world countries. This book shows these places from a child that is growing in them point of view. Jeannette, the main character tries to make something of herself in these awful places, to not carry on who her father is; lazy, a drunkard, uncaring.
   Jeannette grows up in challenging places, where you have to do your most to survive, where you have to fight to simply live. But she does everything she can to change herself, to not turn into those that live in those horrid places, those that are cold hearted and unemotional. She wants to become succesfull, not poor, powerful, not weak.
   This book gives you many things to think about, especially that not everything is not what it seems, especially big, huge things.