Alcoholism In The Glass Castle
Fiction is important to all
5 percent of global income is made up of 40% of the world's population.. In the memoir, The Glass Castle, one of the Walls family main problem is the father of the family. In the book the main character, Jeannette Walls always explains her dad's alcohol problem. It gets so bad that for her birthday gift she asked him to get sober. He also gets very angry, violent, and isolated. Fiction needs to be included in the curriculum because fiction brings people in a different world, a better world, and being taken from reality is good for people. Life can be hard. People can do bad things. Sometimes people just want to escape.
Life can get really hard and reading stories about this in fiction can help put people including …show more content…
It is important to learn about this issue because there is a lot of people including teens that suffer from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a self-diagnosed disease with the consumption of mass amounts of alcohol a day. There are more than 3 million cases of alcoholism is the United States per year. In UXL Encyclopedia of Science article “Alcoholism” they said “,Alcoholism occurs in all types of people, both the rich and the poor, and in males and females.” I think what the author’s message is that this disease can start within anyone. This quote shows that fiction can be a distraction from bad people or becoming a bad person. World of Health article Alcohol and Abuse says “,Men who have more than 14 drinks per week or four drinks at one time...are at risk for alcohol abuse or dependence.” This quote explains how you can tell when one is an alcoholic. And it helps women to understand an alcoholic so if there in a relationship with an alcoholic they can be aware and see the signs before things get out of hand. If you can pick a fiction book you can get distracted from the need of drinking and hopefully become sober. There’s thousands of fiction books that you can get lost in and i think that we should make it an habit of reading them. My book The Glass Castle should be read in classrooms to show young adults that alcoholism can happen to them, their family members or friends, but i still think it is important to read fiction
5 percent of global income is made up of 40% of the world's population.. In the memoir, The Glass Castle, one of the Walls family main problem is the father of the family. In the book the main character, Jeannette Walls always explains her dad's alcohol problem. It gets so bad that for her birthday gift she asked him to get sober. He also gets very angry, violent, and isolated. Fiction needs to be included in the curriculum because fiction brings people in a different world, a better world, and being taken from reality is good for people. Life can be hard. People can do bad things. Sometimes people just want to escape.
Life can get really hard and reading stories about this in fiction can help put people including …show more content…
It is important to learn about this issue because there is a lot of people including teens that suffer from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a self-diagnosed disease with the consumption of mass amounts of alcohol a day. There are more than 3 million cases of alcoholism is the United States per year. In UXL Encyclopedia of Science article “Alcoholism” they said “,Alcoholism occurs in all types of people, both the rich and the poor, and in males and females.” I think what the author’s message is that this disease can start within anyone. This quote shows that fiction can be a distraction from bad people or becoming a bad person. World of Health article Alcohol and Abuse says “,Men who have more than 14 drinks per week or four drinks at one time...are at risk for alcohol abuse or dependence.” This quote explains how you can tell when one is an alcoholic. And it helps women to understand an alcoholic so if there in a relationship with an alcoholic they can be aware and see the signs before things get out of hand. If you can pick a fiction book you can get distracted from the need of drinking and hopefully become sober. There’s thousands of fiction books that you can get lost in and i think that we should make it an habit of reading them. My book The Glass Castle should be read in classrooms to show young adults that alcoholism can happen to them, their family members or friends, but i still think it is important to read fiction