A text-to-world connection relates the ideas of poverty and self-sufficiency highlighted in the "What I Learned" post with what millions of Americans are learning right now during the recession. Jeannette and her family always make do with the situation they are in, from sleeping in their car to "overdrawing" their account at the bank by having Rose Mary and Rex withdraw money simultaneously. Not that Americans should resort to that kind of illegal action, but they should follow along that same line, thinking of ingenious methods to gain necessities.
A text-to-text connection between Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and The Glass Castle is the idea of a dysfunctional family, and especially, how they stick together. Both the Walls family in tGC and the Price family in tPB stay together as a family to survive in poverty, the Prices in the untamed Congo and the Wallses wherever they go. Interestingly, both families' father figures, Nathan Price in tPB and Rex Walls in tGC, are idolized by their children while growing up, but then looked upon from a flawed, more realistic point of view as their children grow older and become more independent.
A text-to-text connection between Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and The Glass Castle is the idea of a dysfunctional family, and especially, how they stick together. Both the Walls family in tGC and the Price family in tPB stay together as a family to survive in poverty, the Prices in the untamed Congo and the Wallses wherever they go. Interestingly, both families' father figures, Nathan Price in tPB and Rex Walls in tGC, are idolized by their children while growing up, but then looked upon from a flawed, more realistic point of view as their children grow older and become more independent.
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