Case Analysis: The Glass Castle

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Jeanette and Brian pair together when faced by bullies from outside. In welch, Jeannette and Brian were being bullied by another kid in the neighborhood named Ernie Goad. Ernie wanted the Walls family out of the town so he calls the Walls family garbage and assaults Brian and Jeannette with rocks. “Ernie Goas appeared and began throwing rocks at me and yelling that the Wallses should all leave Welch because we were stinking it up so bad ( The Glass Castle pg165). Ernie and his gang would constantly return and bully the two siblings. “Ernie’s gang returned a few minutes’ later, throwing stone and shouting that they had actually seen the pigsty where the Walls kids lived and that they were going to tell the whole school it was even worse than

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