Red Glass Sophie's Change Quotes

Mr. Lorenzo and Angel help Sophie, Dika and Pablo to his village along with their journey to Guatemala. Angel helps Sophie feel comfortable and have some fun. After Angel finds his mother’s jewels he is jumped and had everything stolen from him, which made Sophie push herself past her comfort zone. Sophie decides to go to Guatemala to save Angel and Mr. Lorenzo because she is gaining confidence. As soon as Sophie leaves for Guatemala she takes action, “I closed Angel’s visa and I wondered how strong I was, wondered what Sophie la Fuerta could do” (176). Sophie is very brave when she goes to Guatemala because there are so many dangers in getting there. Sophie is even pushes herself farther and compels using a hole in the ground to potty. Finally, when Sophie finds the two men she is a great deal of help by getting their papers to them so they can all head back home to Tucson. Sophie does not learn how to control her fears on her own though; there are many people on this expedition that help her learn to be “Sophie la Fuerta” and love life.

Before interment, the girl was a curious, active character but throughout the story, and her prolonged isolation, her self-identity and personality undergo many changes. For example, in the beginning when her mother reminds her they have to leave their home, taking only what they can carry in their arms, the girl declares, “ ‘I already know that’... She wore a white cotton frock with tiny blue anchors and her hair was pulled back in two tight braids. She tossed her books on the sofa and told the woman [her mother] that her teacher, Mr. Rutherford, had talked for an entire hour about prime numbers and coniferous trees” (12). This quote demonstrates how

The story told in, Red Glass, is one that many can relate to. The main character, Sophie is a fearful, anxious, and nervous girl, she has no friends and rarely goes outside she is scared of everything and never traveled by herself. Her and her family were forced by Dika(her aunt) to adopted a kid named Pablo whose parents died. Then Dika, Sophie, and Dika’s so called boyfriend Mr.Lorenzo and his son Angel that attended Sophie’s High School and they where getting to know each other. Four of them had to take Pablo back to his city to see his family so this meant for a road trip from Tucson, Arizona to guatemala. Sophie was scared, and didn’t want to go on this trip but she did. As the trip progresses her fears go away, and she’s not scared anymore about anything her so called boyfriend gets hurt and she goes on a risky trip by herself. By the end of the book she is fearless and brave. In the novel the Red Glass, by Laura Resau, the primary theme is Don’t let fear or anxiety stop you from doing things you love/trying new things.In the start of the novel, Sophie is anxious and afraid of everything, as the book progresses, she begins to realize that she is missing on a lot because of her fear, at the end of the book she is brave and fearless. Sophie changes throughout the novel, but at the beginning she’s very fearful.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir to put down. It is a book about Jeannette’s unique childhood and how her experiences as a child shaped the rest of her life. When she was a child, Jeannette did not have a normal childhood like today’s average children. Her family would constantly push her around, but it was not typical child abuse because she did not realize her life was any different than other children. She thought it was completely normal for a three-year-old to cook her own food on the stove, and when she was forced to use a cardboard box as a bed, she was completely okay with it. Through this memoir, Jeannette Walls grasps the reader’s attention with her rare childhood experiences.

Set in seventeenth-century Boston, “The Scarlett Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story of principal human values and the consequences if said values are replaced with deceit and falsehood. Sincerity and honesty are indirectly pinned as requisites by Hawthorne in order to be a genuine and sane person in society. This is best expressed in the line, "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.” Hawthorne continued his claim by recounting the stories of Pearl, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth who all went about deceit differently or not at all.

“The Glass Castle,” written by an American author and journalist, Jeannette Walls, is a memoir about herself rising up and eluding from the continuous poverty and her unusual parents. Through out the novel, Jeannette describes her non-typical childhood with her optimistic yet delusional mother and a smart yet alcoholic father. Despite the fact Wells’ parents taught their children to be very strong and determined, Jeannette very much believed the way she was raised as being not normal.

As flames engulfed her dress, they burned down her stomach as she screamed for help. This was the first memory Jeannette Walls had in The Glass Castle . The plot of the story reveals her childhood of poverty as she moved around the country with her delusional family. Her alcoholic father and mentally ill mother created a very different lifestyle for their children, and raised them like no other. The unique plot, strong characters, and many settings make the novel successful. In this autobiography, she perseveres through tough times and leads the reader down the path she took to adulthood.

The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeanette Walls in which she tells the story of her childhood and the way she became who she is. Her path to her balanced present was too difficult and full of hardships, yet she managed to become a successful and prosperous person whose life experience gives her a push to make her life happy. It stands to mention that the novel is full of symbols which contribute to reader's understanding of Jeanette's character and represent her most important traits and desires. Besides, all the symbols such as the fire, the Joshua tree, the geode and the glass castle are recurring and contribute to understanding the struggle of Jeanette's childhood, her ability to overcome it and build a successful life.

“On one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." Chapter 1, pg. 46

I had never given much thought into how I would die. There’s something about being young that causes us to believe we’re invincible. It’s not like dying young is uncommon, it’s just that there’s something extra despairing about a life ending before it had really begun. Over the past 18 years, I’ve never thought twice about my mortality. I mean, it wasn’t anything special to me. I knew that I would eventually die, but eventuallies aren’t always as far as you think. Here I am, only 18 years old, my cold body

In the text of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the mother says, “I’m not upset because I’ll miss you, I’m upset because you get to go to New York and I’m stuck here. It’s not fair (Walls 237).” Jeanette thought her mom was sad because her daughter was leaving forever but she was just jealous that she couldn’t go to New York. This quote makes the mother look selfish and like she doesn’t care about her children. Jeannette’s mother had just started a teaching job that she didn’t like and had to deal with her father’s problems every day, so it was clear that she was under a lot of stress and was probably tired of living in Welch. But the mother also didn’t seem depressed when Lori left for New York when she should have been because her oldest

This image illustrates how Trujillo's system truly brunts the lives of Patria, her sisters, and their fellow people. To them, Trujillo is almost godlike. He usually gives them arcane commandments, smites those who contravene his power, and is delimited by wealth. Patria shows her disbelief in how callously God is behaving toward her because of her child's death. Throughout In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez’s Patria Mirabal develops from an optimistic young Catholic girl to a woman who doubts; subsequently, that educators can further come to understand the influence of God on one’s actions.

In the novel The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the uncertain future of the Walls’ children was questionable from the start. From a drunk father, to never having a steady home, the author tells of her idiosyncratic youth to describe the bitterness and longing for an ordinary childhood.

…What Daisy? No, a bad lie got me out in the final, weren’t you watching?

Violet Markey has lost her older sister (and best friend) in a fatal car crash on an icy bridge. She is overwhelmed by guilt, as she was the one who begged her sister to take her home, and told her to take the shortcut, ultimately leading to Eleanor’s death. When this happens, she loses friends and is afraid to make any, afraid she will lose them too. After losing Mitch, I also lost my Nana and Papa (grandmother and grandfather). My cousin, Dimity had bowel cancer and although she is alive and well now, it is still scary to think how close we were to losing her. This made me realize, unlike other people my age, how close death is in our everyday lives, and, unlike cartoon character, we cannot peel ourselves from the rubble and complete our quest or journey. Losing some of the major people in my life has, just like Violet, made me scared to let go of people and even more scared of letting them into my heart. However, just like with Violet, her friends help her world to grow.