For a New choice book that i have started to read about a week ago i chose the Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. Tho book is about the author Jeanette Walls and her struggles growing up as a child and how she had to cope with her 2 unstable alcoholic parents. They constantly bounced between homelessness and dumpy apartments. THe book opens up with Jeannette sitting in a taxi and she suddenly sees her homeless mother digging through a garbage can which sets up the reader for the depressing life she lived as a child with her parents Rex and Rosemary Walls. There are lots of examples in the begining of the novel that display her parents terrible parenting and their neglect towards their children. Jeanette also foreshadows her dads bad temper caused by his alcoholism which caused her much stress as a child. A text to self relationship that i have made while reading is between a family member of mine who is an alcoholic, and rex the alcoholic father of Rosemary. My uncle was at onetime an abusive alcoholic towards his family and it got so bad to the point his family was going to leave him unless he found treatment. This relates back to the novel and how Rex's alcoholism causes many family problems and destruction which is impacting the lives of Jeanette her mother and her siblings.