The Glass Castle (pgs 50-105)

Summary
In the rising action, Jeannette and her family moved to Battle mountain. They moved into an old wooden building that had once been a railroad depot. Altogether, there were fourteen rooms, including bathrooms and kitchens. They didnt really have funiture, so they managed. Jeannette's parents' room was on the second floor, while the kids slept down stairs in cardboard boxes. They did have a piano that their mother played when she wasn't painting or preparing something for the kids to eat.
Jeannette's dad got a job as electrician in a barite mine. Even though he worked, he found time to play soldier games, card games, and invented games with the kids. If he had enough money, he would take the family out to eat at The Owl Club. Soon after, Brian, Jeannette, and Lori enrolled in the Mary S. Elementary School. After school, Brian and Jeannette would go searching for gold, but usually would find garnets, granite, obsidian, Mexican lace and a lot of turquoise. Jeannette started her collection which she kept behind the house near her mother's piano.
Jeannette's father "lost his job" to continue with his work. Leading to violent arguements and Jeannette's mom gettting a job as a teacher to stop the kids from eating any thing they could get their hands on. Even though Jeannette's mother was making the money, her dad still thought he should be in charge of the money. Even though she wanted put as much money in the bank, she just couldn't say no to her husband.
A little while after Jeannette turned eight, a boy named Billy Deel moved to town. He was three years older than Jeannette, but still had a crsuh on her. He told her taht if she be his girlfriend that she would be sorry. He attempted raping her which didn't work, and coming to her house with a BB gun when her parents weren't home. Lori runs upstairs to get their father's pistol and shoots at Billy. Brian, Jeannette, and Lori run outside and Jeannette takes the gun and shoots at Billy who gets away. Police come by to question them telling them to come to c ourt tomorrow, but they never do because they leave town.
Now on the road again, Jeannette finds out that her grandmother died and her family was going to live in one of the two houses that she owned. They now lived in Phoenix witha decent house and food to eat. Again, they enrolled in school, but were put in "gifted" reading circles. Walking home after school were horrible because streets were full of perverts. The hot weather caused the doors and windows of Jeannette's house to be open. One night one pervert came into their house and touched Jeanette. Brian, Jeannette, and their father went looking for him, but they could never find him.
Quote
"'I swear, honey, there are times when I think you're the only one around who still has faith in me...I don't know what I'd do if you ever lost it." I told him that I would never lose faith in him. And I promised myself I never would" (Walls 79).
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Jeannett's father is doing a lot of weird things to fund his project: The Glass Castle. Everyone in the family, except Jeannette, doesn't think it's possible. He quit his job, which was his family's only way of buying things they need, to focus on his new inventions and finding gold. The only one who really believes and has faith in her father is Jeannette. She loves his ideas and his inventions. Whenever her brother Brian and sister Lori make fun of him, she's quick to defend him. Reading this quote makes me happy for Jeannette's father, but also feel pity. As of now, he has motivation to continue on with his works and ideas, but Jeannette's promise could be broken leaving her father with no reason to continue working.