有一天,我们在广播中听到郊区的一名妇女在她的房屋后面看到一只山狮,并打电话给警察,枪杀了动物。爸爸很生气,他把拳头放在墙上。他说,那只山狮的生命与那个酸老竞标对她的生命一样多。您不能仅仅因为它是疯狂的而杀死了东西。
(One day we heard on the radio that a woman in the suburbs had seen a mountain lion behind her house and had called the police, who shot the animal. Dad got so angry he put his fist through a wall. That mountain lion had as much right to his life as that sour old biddy does to hers, he said. You can't kill something just because it's wild.)
在“玻璃城堡”中,发生了一个重大事件,当时妇女在家里发现一只山狮并触发警察的反应,导致该动物死亡。这一事件深深地打扰了珍妮特·沃尔斯(Jeannette Walls)的父亲,他认为野生动植物具有固有的生存权,并谴责了女人的行为。他强烈的愤怒使他撞墙,说明了他对所有生物价值的强烈感受。
这一刻封装了家庭与自然的复杂关系及其更广泛的价值观。珍妮特(Jeannette)的父亲对山狮(Mountain Lion)的死亡感到一种不公正感,强调不应仅仅因为被视为威胁而受到伤害。他的观点鼓励人们对生活的尊重,以及对社会如何与野生动植物互动的批判性观点,反映了人类对回忆录中自然责任的广泛主题。