The Glass Castle | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

U-haul - When the Walls family leaves the town Mary Rose births her fourth child in, they rent this.

Jewelry - Rose Mary keeps this expensive item at her mother's home. Despite living in poverty and later on the streets, Rose Mary refuses to sell it.

Geode - The Walls family would often move so quickly that the children could only to take one thing. Jeannette twice chooses to take this object.

Stars - For Christmas one year, Rex Walls can not give his children gifts, so he gives them each their choice...
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