the glass castle the skedaddle
dad came home in the middle of the night a few months later and roused all of us from bed.
ime to pull up stakes and leave this s**t - hole behind,\ he hollered.
we had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile into the car.
\is everything okay, dad?\ i asked. \is someone after us?\
\dont you worry,\ dad said. \you leave that to me. dont i always take care of you?\
\course you do,\ i said.
hats my girl!\ dad said with a hug, then barked orders at us all to speed things up. he took the essentials - a big black cast - iron skillet and the dutch oven, some army surplus tin plates, a few knives, his pistol, and moms archery set - and packed them in the trunk of the blue goose. he said we shouldnt take much else, just what we needed to survive. mom hurried out to the yard and started digging holes by the light of the moon, looking for her cache of cash. she had forgotten where shed buried it.
an hour passed before we finally tied moms paintings on the top of the car, shoved whatever would fit into the trunk, and piled the overflow on the backseat and the car floor. dad steered the blue goose through the dark, driving slowly so as not to alert anyone in the trailer park that we were, as dad liked to put it, doing the skedaddle. he was grumbling that he couldnt understand why the hell it took so long to grab what we needed and load our asses into the car.
\dad!\ i said. \i forgot tinkerbell!\
inkerbell can make it on her own,\ dad said. \shes like my brave little girl. you are brave and ready for adventure, right?\
\i guess,\ i said. i hoped whoever found tinkerbell would love her despite her mashed face. for comfort, i tried to cradle quixote, our gray and white cat who was missing an ear, but he growled and scratched at my face. \quix, quixote!\ i said.
\cats dont like to travel,\ mom explained.
anyone who didnt like to travel wasnt invited on our adventure, dad said. he stopped the car, grabbed quixote by the scruff of the neck, and tossed him out the window. quixote landed with a screeching meow and a thud. dad accelerated up the road, and i burst into tears.
\dont be so sentimental,\ mom said. she told me we could always get another cat, and now quixote was going to be a wild cat, which was much more fun than being a house cat. brian, afraid that dad might toss juju out the window as well, held the dog tight.
to distract us kids, mom got us singing songs like. \dont fence me in\ and. his land is your land,\ and dad led us in rousing renditions of. \old man river\ and his favorite. \swing low, sweet chariot.\ after a while, i forgot about quixote and tinkerbell and the friends id left behind in the trailer park. dad started telling us about all the exciting things we were going to do and how we were going to get rich once we reached the new place where we were going to live.
\where are we going, dad?\ i asked.
\wherever we end up,\ he said.
later that night, dad stopped the car out in the middle of the desert, and we slept under the stars. we had no pillows, but dad said that was part of his plan. he was teaching us to have good posture. the indians didnt use pillows, either, he explained, and look how straight they stood. we did have our scratchy army surplus blankets, so we spread them out and lay there, looking up at the field of stars. i told lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like indians.
\we could live like this forever,\ i said.
\i think were going to,\ she said.
the skedaddle\ reading questions
1. what can you infer about why the walls family leaves the trailer park in the middle of the night? the story doesnt tell us, so make an educated guess.
2. what does jeannette walls reaction to leaving quixote the cat tell you about her life with her family?
3. at the end of the chapter, jeannette and lori briefly talk as theyre sleeping under the stars.
\we could live like this forever,\ i said.
\i think were going to,\ she said.
what does lori seem to understand about their family that jeannette might not understand yet?
4. based on what youve read so far, what do you think that rex walls, jeannettes father believes about the world? choose two things that he seems to believe and choose quotes from either he skedaddle\ or he desert\ to support your position.
rex walls seems to believe... we can see this when he...

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the glass castle the skedaddle
dad came home in the middle of the night a few months later and roused all of us from bed.
	ime to pull up stakes and leave this s**t - hole behind,\ he hollered.
we had fifteen minutes to gather whatever we needed and pile into the car.
\is everything okay, dad?\ i asked. \is someone after us?\
\dont you worry,\ dad said. \you leave that to me. dont i always take care of you?\
\course you do,\ i said.
	hats my girl!\ dad said with a hug, then barked orders at us all to speed things up. he took the essentials - a big black cast - iron skillet and the dutch oven, some army surplus tin plates, a few knives, his pistol, and moms archery set - and packed them in the trunk of the blue goose. he said we shouldnt take much else, just what we needed to survive. mom hurried out to the yard and started digging holes by the light of the moon, looking for her cache of cash. she had forgotten where shed buried it.
an hour passed before we finally tied moms paintings on the top of the car, shoved whatever would fit into the trunk, and piled the overflow on the backseat and the car floor. dad steered the blue goose through the dark, driving slowly so as not to alert anyone in the trailer park that we were, as dad liked to put it, doing the skedaddle. he was grumbling that he couldnt understand why the hell it took so long to grab what we needed and load our asses into the car.
\dad!\ i said. \i forgot tinkerbell!\
	inkerbell can make it on her own,\ dad said. \shes like my brave little girl. you are brave and ready for adventure, right?\
\i guess,\ i said. i hoped whoever found tinkerbell would love her despite her mashed face. for comfort, i tried to cradle quixote, our gray and white cat who was missing an ear, but he growled and scratched at my face. \quix, quixote!\ i said.
\cats dont like to travel,\ mom explained.
anyone who didnt like to travel wasnt invited on our adventure, dad said. he stopped the car, grabbed quixote by the scruff of the neck, and tossed him out the window. quixote landed with a screeching meow and a thud. dad accelerated up the road, and i burst into tears.
\dont be so sentimental,\ mom said. she told me we could always get another cat, and now quixote was going to be a wild cat, which was much more fun than being a house cat. brian, afraid that dad might toss juju out the window as well, held the dog tight.
to distract us kids, mom got us singing songs like. \dont fence me in\ and. 	his land is your land,\ and dad led us in rousing renditions of. \old man river\ and his favorite. \swing low, sweet chariot.\ after a while, i forgot about quixote and tinkerbell and the friends id left behind in the trailer park. dad started telling us about all the exciting things we were going to do and how we were going to get rich once we reached the new place where we were going to live.
\where are we going, dad?\ i asked.
\wherever we end up,\ he said.
later that night, dad stopped the car out in the middle of the desert, and we slept under the stars. we had no pillows, but dad said that was part of his plan. he was teaching us to have good posture. the indians didnt use pillows, either, he explained, and look how straight they stood. we did have our scratchy army surplus blankets, so we spread them out and lay there, looking up at the field of stars. i told lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like indians.
\we could live like this forever,\ i said.
\i think were going to,\ she said.
the skedaddle\ reading questions
1. what can you infer about why the walls family leaves the trailer park in the middle of the night? the story doesnt tell us, so make an educated guess.
2. what does jeannette walls reaction to leaving quixote the cat tell you about her life with her family?
3. at the end of the chapter, jeannette and lori briefly talk as theyre sleeping under the stars.
\we could live like this forever,\ i said.
\i think were going to,\ she said.
what does lori seem to understand about their family that jeannette might not understand yet?
4. based on what youve read so far, what do you think that rex walls, jeannettes father believes about the world? choose two things that he seems to believe and choose quotes from either 	he skedaddle\ or 	he desert\ to support your position.
rex walls seems to believe... we can see this when he...

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# Brief Explanations:
1. The Walls family may leave in the middle - of the night likely due to financial troubles, running from debt or authorities, or Dad's impulsive nature for adventure.
2. Jeannette's reaction to leaving Quixote shows she has a sense of attachment and sentimentality, indicating a somewhat stable emotional bond within her family despite its chaos.
3. Lori seems to understand that their family's life is full of instability and that their current idyllic - seeming moment under the stars is fleeting, while Jeannette may be more naive or hopeful about a stable life like that.
4. Rex Walls seems to believe in self - sufficiency as seen when he says they don't need much to survive and packs essential items like the skillet and pistol. He also believes in adventure as he tells the kids about all the exciting things they'll do in the new place.

# Answer:
1. They might be leaving due to financial issues or Dad's impulsive adventure - seeking.
2. Her reaction shows she has emotional attachments within the family.
3. Lori realizes the family's life is unstable and the moment is fleeting.
4. Rex believes in self - sufficiency (packing essentials) and adventure (telling kids about future exciting things).

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