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.