The Glass Castle (pgs 106-167)

Summary
In the climax, the Wall family ends up moving again because the dad gets tired of city life and once again looses his job. He couldn't keep a steady job because of his weird researches. Luckily for the children, their school served them food for a quarter and when they didn't have a quarter, it was given to them by a teacher. Sometimes, he would come home drunk from his supposive research. One time, he came home drunk and got into a fight with his wife that ended with laughter and hugs.
For Jeannette's birthday, she asked her dad to stop drinking, which only lasted a certain amount of time. The family goes on an expedition that is cut short because their car brakes down. Leaving all their belongings behind, they are forced to walk eighty miles. Luckily, a kind woman picks them up and gives them food and drinks. When the mom had enough money to pay for another car, she bought a 1956 Oldsmoblie. After getting the car, the family moves in with Jeannette's father's mother, Erma.
Erma lived with her husband and her son Stanley. She was very miserable and treated her grandchildren badly. She told Jeannette that she shouldn't be hanging around "n******" because people would start to think she was a n****** lover. One incident that occured caused a fight between Lori and Erma. After that, they were not allowed outside the basement, but luckily there was a door through the basement leading outside.
They end up moving out of her Erma's house and into their own. Jeannette tries making the outward appearance of the house more pleasant, which doesn't work, while her mother works on the inward appearance by hanging up up her paintings. Jeannette ends up getting teased for being dirty, living in house half painted in yellow, and for having trash in a hole in their backyard. Her and Brian fights Ernie and his gang off, from the side of their house with a hand made catapult, and do their victory dance :).

Quote
"He was shaking his head, but wildly, almost as if he thought he could keep out the sound of my voice" (Walls 148).
Reaction
Reading this quote made me think about Jeannette's father's childhood. After the incident, instead of usually being on the children's side, he chose his mother. It makes me wonder how his mother treated him. She probably made him miserably and maybe did what she did to Brian to him when she was drunk. When his kids try to explain the situation to him, he just shook his head, trying his best not to hear. He didn't want to be reminded of what he had to go through as a child.