In this day and age a home is recognized as a house or an apartment or a place you have a significant memory or experience. Humans expect curtain items to be present in there lives in order to feel normal, Jeannette and her siblings didn’t have these items and were never accustomed to them so they relied on other elements to make them feel normal. These items could be related to a home, a school, a friend, a car and even money. Jeannette and her siblings never really experienced any of those items growing up, due to the fact they were always moving around the country.Jeannette and her siblings ended up finding other things to make them feel normal/excepted. Like I said in my other blog post, on Christmas Jeannette’s father could not afford average Christmas present so instead he took Jeannette and her siblings out to the desert and had them a pick a star they wanted. I related this back to a possible home for Jeannette because in the book it expresses how much she loves the stars and the mountains. This shows that humans need shelter but shelter can be described as two different things. In a form with a roof over your head or place or thing that will make you feel safe no matter the circumstances you are in. We has humans have our “needs” and “wants” mixed up and most think without a house and/or stable living situation, you will not be able to succeed as your life progress. Jeannette proved this wrong as she grew up with virtually nothing and also with a dysfunctional family and still went on too attend college and have a successful career.

While reading the Glass castle you will find that Jeannette and her siblings don’t have the same definition of a home as the average kid living in America does. Jeannette and her slings have never stayed in one house or place in their entire life, they have always been on the move, so there parents can avoid taxes. From the constant traveling there outlook on the word “home” has been obscured. They don’t say it but in this point in their lives they don’t compare the word home to a house, they relate home to a place where they feel safe or something they enjoy doing or seeing. At this point in the book I would say the closest thing to a home for Jeannette is when she is with her family and when she is in the desert looking at the beautiful rocks and minerals. In the book it talks about how they don’t believe in Santa because Jeannette’s parents are not wealthy enough to supply gifts on Christmas every year so there is no point trying to trick them. When Jeannette was five on Christmas her parents did not have the money for gifts so instead her dad took them star gazing and told them to pick out a star they can call there own. This part stood out to me because this could also be another form of a home that Jeannette refers too. Staring into the sky looking at the stars could be more of a home than an actual house or town. Growing up this way has formed them to be less materialistic and this allows them to associate home with family and the nature instead of a house or state they live in.

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