Forgiveness In The Glass Castle

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The kids were all that each other had to depend on when bad situations occurred. Brian is saved by Lori after grand mom Erma tried to force herself onto him. After Rex knowing that his mother is an abusive women because of his past experience with her, he still leaves the kids with her while him and Rose Mary returned back to their home in Phoenix. After a week Rose Mary and Rex left, Erma ordered Brian to follow her into grandpa’s bedroom. “I went into grandpa’s bedroom and saw Erma kneeling on the floor in front of Brain, grabbing at the crotch of his parents, squeezing and kneading while mumbling to herself and telling Brian to hold still, goddammit.(The Glass Castle pg146)” Lori quickly runs to the room after hearing commotion and tried to stop Erma. When Rex finally returned and heard about the incident they appear to not care about what happened. “I don’t care what happened! “He yelled. (The Glass Castle …show more content…

He can be very abusive when trying to show Jeannette affection. After Jeannette says no to Billy when he asked her to close her eyes for a kiss, he begins to be abusive. “The more I pulled, the more he pushed, until he was on top of me and I felt his fingers tugging at my shorts (The Glass Castle pg85). The incident gets interrupted when the other children hear. Later, Jeanette returned the ring and told him she doesn’t want to be his friend anymore. Billy is not too happy about this so this causes him to fire a BB gun at the Walls family while the parents are gone. This causes the kids to depend on each other once again because the parents are irresponsible and usually never around when they need them. “Lori wasn’t as good as me, but she pointed the gun in Billy’s general direction and pulled the trigger. I squeezed my eyes shut at the explosion, and when I open them, Billy had disappeared (The Glass Castle pg88). The Walls’ children react by locating their father’s pistol and firing back at

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