Shattering of Hope

The name of this book is The Glass Castle. Throughout the story, Rex Walls is constantly "working out" ways to build and perfect the Glass Castle. Rex never starts to build it, and as we progress through the story, the odds of him building the Glass Castle grow slimmer and slimmer. I feel the Glass Castle is a symbol of hope and faith. When all of the kids move into a house in Welch, Jeannette and Brian were the only two that still beleived the Glass Castle would be built. Pretty soon, none of the kids believed the Glass Castle would ever be built. They had all given up on that idea. They had all lost hope and faith.  Everyone knew that they were stuck in Welch and that

it wasn't going to get better. In order to believe that something good will come out of your life, you must have both hope and faith. To me, that is what the Glass Castle meant to the Walls children. But I think to Rex it was a goal. A goal that he never tried to accomplish so it became a distant dream. Before going to New York, Jeannette told her father to build the Glass Castle, but don't do it for her. Without the idea of the Glass Castle, I think the Walls would have lived a different life. I don't know if it would have been better, but I am sure it would be one without faith and hope.

Above are the blueprints the Walls family made for the Glass Castle.