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The book I read was titled __The Glass Castle.__ Its the story of a girl who was raised with a very poor family. Her dad was an alcoholic and her mom didn't really care about getting up and doing something for their life. her oldest sister was always reading and painting like their mother. while Jeannette and her brother were always out looking for an adventure. Their family kept moving around and when they were finally getting used to a place they would have to move and when they thought things were getting better they would run out of money and end up starving and having to get their food from the restroom trash during school. Jeannette also had a younger sister but her sister always had lots of friends and she would go to their house everyday for dinner amd she would eat better then the rest. For most of her life time she lived in a very old wrecked town in West Virginia in which everyday her dad would come home entoxicated and very angry he usually wouldn't take out on them but he woould get into lots of arguments with his wife. Meanwhile her mom would stay in the house all day sleeping in and every little money she would get she would spend it in art supplies. I really enjoyed this book due to the fact that it was very emotional for example this family even though they had many troubles and hard times they loved each other unconditionally. For example once the oldest sister moved to New York she immediately saw that they had a better chance of getting out of the poverty they had lived in for many years she told her sister to come live with her. When Jeannette reached New York also and she saw it was working out for her also she told her brother to go live with them the same thing happened with their youngest sibling until finally the entire family was living in New York. Also the thing was they all wanted so badly to get out of where they were, all the children did the best they could to help each other out and all move to New York.

The part of the book that proved to me the most that Jeanette and her brother and sisters loved each other alot and one of the parts I liked the most because it showed they were strong enough to fight with anyone that tried to hurt one of them was on page 146. In which their grandmother was in a way molesting Brian which was Jeannettes younger brother she heard him protesting she rushed upstairs and screamed at her grandmother her grandmother got extremely infuriated and reached over to Jeannette and almost smacked her but then Lori her oldest sister came in and stopped her hand which infuriated the grandmother even more she slapped Lori instead but Lori was taught to defend herself so she smacked her grandmother back and they got into a fist fight.

The author of this book wanted to show us that not everything in life is easy and that she had to fight her way through poverty and that anyone could do it only if they believe in themselves and in that every bad situation you have to live through you have to make the best of it and do everything you can to get out of it