Growing up in the Walls household

1.    Jeannette gets burned making dinner. At a very young age of only three years old Jeannette is making herself dinner. After she is burned it is apparent that there is lack in parental supervision. This demonstrates how much freedom Jeannette has going up.
2. The Walls family pack their bags in the middle of the night. This is the first time the family has moved since the beginning of the novel. They move during the middle of the night to avoid bill collector.  Rex Walls acts as if it is an adventure so the children won’t be scared.
3. Rex Walls tells the kids of his dream of the glass castle. This may seems like it’s not an important event in the novel, but it is because it sets up the disappointment displayed throughout.
4. The family moves to Phoenix. Once they settled in, life seems to be returning back to normal. There is food on the table, money in their pocket, and the children attend school. But when things came to a halt and the money ran out, chaos breaks lose. The children are no longer cared for properly by their parents they are forced to steal from other kids lunches just to feed themselves.
5. The family moves to Welch. The family moves back to Rex’s hometown where now we get an insight of what his life was really like. Here we find out his past and what may have shaped him into the man he is today.
6. The child welfare employee knocks at the door. Jeannette opens the door to be very shocked that there is a welfare employee standing on the other side. He questions her about her home life, but she lies to make it seem like they are a normal family. After, she answers the questions the man is convinced her life is alright and leaves. 
7. Jeannette’s sister, Lori, moves to New York. Once Lori has moved to New York Jeannette becomes very dedicated to what she does. She now becomes serious with her studies and graduates from college.
8. Jeannette moves to New York. After graduating from college Jeannette finally get out of her house. She now was fulfilling her dreams of moving to New York.
9. Jeannette’s father dies. Once her father dies the family drifts apart. They no longer have any communications among anyone in their family. It now becomes clear to us that Rex kept the family together for so long.
10. They have thanksgiving together. This was the first time they have seen each other since their father has passed away. Throughout dinner they talked about the good times they shared growing up and they never spoke about all the chaos they encountered.