Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Joshua Tree

What does the Joshua tree represent in The Glass Castle? Use textual evidence to support your response.

5 comments:

  1. What does the Joshua tree represent? The Joshua tree represents Jeanette's family NOT only Jeanette, I feel this way because at the end of the book when Jeanette says "I wanted to dig it up and replant is near our house" The mom said "Its the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty". The mom is saying the quote so the quote has to do with how the mom feels and I think its how the mom feels about her family.

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  2. The Joshua Tree represents the family because the family is precious in its own way. Some textual evidence is "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty." This represents that the family goes through a struggle to survive and that makes them unique from everyone else, its their family and there's no other family like theirs.

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  3. The Joshua tree represent the family's complications and the family's attitude and up and downs. Jeanette's mom said the struggle of the tree make beautiful and Jeanette took that into her own hand. To take the tree from where it is from and plant it near were they were camping out. And the mom said no you are destroying is natural habitat because the tree has to struggle to make it look beautiful.

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  4. The Joshua Tree represent the family struggles because in the text the mother states that " The Joshua Tree's struggle give it its beauty". That means all the family struggles. I think this represent the family because all that the Jeanette has gone through will always show love they have for each other, and how nothing can destroy their family.

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  5. The quote I found in the glass castle it said " you'd be destroying what makes it special she said it the Joshua trees struggle that give its it beauty which relates to Jeanette because she got burned and still looks pretty with the burns the struggles

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