Characters 1
The narrator of the story.
Who is Jeannette Walls?
The names of Jeannette's parents and three siblings.
Who are Rex, Rose Mary, Lori, Brian, and Maureen?
Jeannette was doing this when she was 3 years old and caught on fire.
What is cooking hotdogs?
The one thing that Jeannette chose to bring when they moved to Phoenix.
What is her geode (rock)?
The term the Walls family had for leaving town in a hurry.
What is the skedaddle?
While in a taxi, Jeannette sees this character searching through the trash in the streets of New York.
Who is Rose Mary Walls?
The nick name that Rex has for Jeannette.
What is Mountain Goat?
Rex had a plan to build this after he finds gold.
What is the glass castle?
The medical emergency that killed Rex towards the end of the memoir.
What is a heart attack?
The name of their piggy bank with their escape fund.
What is Oz?
The name of Jeannette's first husband.
Who is Eric?
The relatives that the Walls family moves in with when they move to Welch.
Who are Erma, Grandpa Ted, and Uncle Stanley?
How Jeannette learned to swim.
What is Rex throwing her into the hot springs?
The thing Rose Mary asked Jeannette to borrow a million dollars from Eric for.
What is land?
The character who has repeatedly said:
"Have I ever let you down?"
Who is Rex Walls
The Walls child that found a love for art, like their mother.
Who is Lori Walls?
The Walls child that didn't like being labelled as "gifted" or "special" in school.
Who is Brian Walls?
Lori got these and it made her decide to be an artist.
What is her new glasses and ability to see the world?
The crime Maureen committed which led her to be sent to California.
What is stabbing her mother?
The character who said "I'm an excitement addict."
Who is Rose Mary Walls?
The famous person that Jeannette interviewed for her school newspaper.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
The girl that bullied Jeannette, then befriended her before she was arrested for stabbing her mother's boyfriend.
Who is Dinitia?
What is making her own braces?
The way that Jeannette found out her parents were in New York.
What is the radio news about the van on the highway?
Who is Jeannette Bivens, Rex's old English teacher?