In the memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the author, was most influenced her time in Battle Mountain, as indicated by how she describes the most stable parts of Jeannette’s life there. Although, for the most part, Jeannette’s life is a disastrous mess this point in time shows the family possibly moving in for good and settling into a more responsible family life. For example, “On Sunday night, if Dad had money, we'd all go to the Owl Club for Dinner (Walls 55)”, showing how the family is about to go about normal habits and eat out instead of the beans they usually split for the month. In Battle Mountain they were very liked by their community, they fit right in. It explain that Rex is very liked in the Owl Club’s bar and is a very…show more content… Another example of her family growth is shown on page 56, “After dinner, the whole family stretched out on the benches and the floor of the depot and read, with the dictionary in the middle of the room so we kids could look up words we didn't know (Walls 56).” As a family, for them to all be together not argueing, doing something educational to not only help teach the children, but bring the family together was a big accomplishment. She was also enrolled in schooling with her siblings, something well needed by all of them. This was something they had never done that was foreign to many of the kids but feel nice to Jeannette. She felt as if they were a normal family, all the negative parts of her life and problems they had been running away from disappeared at this time. There were many locations Jeannette had lived in, all that her family had fled from very abruptly, finally at Battle Mountain everything started to change for the better. It taught Jeannette a lot about her family and how they could act within their family and communities. Battle Mountain gave her a lot, although it was short lived it changed many things in her life for the
