Essay On The Glass Castle
Society influencing literature, probably wondering what this means. Honestly what is this world now? I bet if I look around your regular classroom what do I see. I see the friends, kids, students faces in their phones what happened to the book worms where your face isn’t into a screen, where your face is into a book with paper pages. The book I’ll be summarizing is a book about lesson about to be responsible, a book about having an unstable family and an unstable family life. The title of my reading is about The Glass Castle. The author's name is Jeannette Walls, the book is about a family with poverty, the lesson of this entire book is about being responsible. being a good influence and to have a good structurized family because things can affect others and you
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might not know how far it could affect them. Fiction has to be discluded in the curriculum because, we need more factual type of books that describe the real word, the world includes homeless, abuse, discrimination, stereotyping, not having responsibility, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, and starvation. The book, The Glass Castle relates to the real world it shows a similarity how people are low on income, how people try hard to get money, starve when they have no food, sleep on the floor because they have no bed, and trying to survive with an unstructured family. This book gives a message to the reader it describes the real world how people survived, how people dealt with humiliation and how people dealt with bad parents. This book is relevant to the real world it is how the world included homeless, abuse, discrimination, stereotyping, not having money, no responsibility, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol abuse and starvation. This all includs to people that have low income, people that had to wear the same clothes at school and people would humiliate you for being who you are. The message of this book relates to people and also can affect people as well. It shows similarity to people that are poor and have a struggle in the environment, it shows how people don’t have enough money to buy food for themselves or even for their family, an alcohol addiction affects money and also affects the people who surround you. This book is for anyone, that have an immature family and cannot support and take care of their family.
In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls and her family were poor they always traveled place to place for somewhere to sleep. Sometimes the parents would even steal for food and lie to their kids saying they got it from being good. Having to lie to your kids you start to believe your own lies is just a bad way of introducing your kids into the real world. Stealing when done consistently, you start just to get used to it. The parents did not steal for a want they did it for a need since they were poor. These parents were setting another bad example for their children instead of working for the food. Having no other choice but to steal is considered poverty. Poverty is living in a state of not having food not having a home not having things you desire or even things you need such as a bed and clothes. A quote from the book said in page 84 “Mom gave me a startled look. I’d broken one of our unspoken rules.” The social issue in this quote of the book was not saving the food and the mom thinking and telling her that she was selfish that she ate the sugared margarine and the last parts of bread because her and her sister were hungry so the mom was mad at her because Jeannette ate the last bit of their food. So the real issue is not having enough food for everyone and not having enough money for the food. The author's purpose to this quote is that the author is trying to say that there’s a social issue, which is that there's not enough food and since there's not enough food that means there's not enough money with the family. This quote proves my thesis because it's a real world issue on homelessness and also to other poor people. It also supports my point on starvation because if the kids weren’t so hungry they wouldn’t have eaten the jar of margarine, because of the lack of money in the family. Another quote from the book on page 77 talks about not having enough money or food for their pets “Mom liked to encourage self sufficiency in all living creatures.” When Jeannette’s mom said this is when she was telling Jeannette that they couldn’t afford pet food and they would rarely eat the scraps of the left overs. I feel like Jeannette was self including herself and her siblings in this quote “to all living creatures.” This quote supports my thesis about them having poverty and how they don't have enough money to pay for food, but when Jeannette starts thinking about what her mom had said she starts to think of herself and her family that they can't buy food for themselves. Why this quote relates to my thesis is how when she thought to herself and for her family about if they can't even buy food for their pets what makes it relevant that they can even by food for themselves. So why I strongly feel for this book is that this book should be read and included in an assignment for schools. This book is a non fiction book and an autobiography Jeannette talks about her struggles, and what her family has through. When I read this book it changed a part of me because this book is a learning lesson to understand what other people have been through and maybe to you as well. As I said, this book needs to be included in schools because reading is an essential part of school. When someone reads this from Jeannette other people could be going through the same struggle as her and her family and relate to her.
The Glass Castle has a relevance to the real world and also had abuse such as homeless, abuse, discrimination, stereotyping, not having money no responsibility, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol abuse and starvation. So what I meant by how this book is relevant to the real world because the book involved homeless and abuse and not having money and starvation, these things are involved in the real world. For example, you go look at New York City Manhattan and you see homeless people on the streets even maybe where you live. Anywhere you look you will see someone with a card board saying that they’re hungry and they need food that's homeless plus starvation. Imagine how they feel when people just look at them from any car or even in person, it's humiliating. A quote on page 112-113 talks about “She’d been reading books on how to cope with an alcoholic, and they said that drunks don’t remember their rampages, so if you cleaned up after them, they’d think nothing had happened. ‘Your father needs to see the mess he’s making of our lives, ‘Mom said. But when Dad got up, he’d act as if all the wreckage didn’t exist, and no one discussed it with him. The rest of us had to get used to stepping over broken furniture and shattered glass. In this quote the author is trying to tell us that when Rex Walls the father would gamble and drink he would get so angry and hurt the family and not even know it when he wakes up in the morning. How the reader is trying to tell us this is how when the mom announced to Jeannette “your father needs to see the mess he’s making of our lives.” This quote shows that he hurt their lives if he wouldn’t have gotten drunk or been an alcoholic their lives would have been okay instead of where they are at. This just proves to my thesis and why we should start reading non fiction books at our schools. This book just doesn't describe one issue in their family it points out multiple issues, such as in the quote he is an alcoholic and he messed up their lives and when he wakes up he doesn’t even notice a thing and goes on with his life as nothing happened. So this is why we should read more non fictional books instead of the tooth fairy coming to take your tooth under your pillow and giving you a penny or a dollar. This quote describes to Jeannette and how she tries protecting the family on page 206 “At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn't keeping my promise that I’d protect her, the promise I’d made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she’d been born. I couldn’t get her what she needed most. Hot baths, a warm bed, steaming bowls of cream of wheat before school in the morning but I tried to do little things.” This quote is about motivation she’s trying to explain she couldn’t do the things she promised her youngest sister. When Jeannette did her hardest trying to take care of her sister she only could have did the little things that were available to do for her. So how this is relevant to my thesis statement is how they’re poor and she couldn’t do the same things people with money. She was basically trying to be the mother, trying to set Maureen better than her and better than her parents. There’s so much more detail to the book as you have read so far. How Jeannette knows now about her dad, not knowing right from wrong and not even knowing what he as done to this family. We also now know about how Jeannette tried to be that mother figure to her baby sister Maureen, to set her straight and to help her be better and not be like their parents. Because now Jeannette understands who and what her parents are.
The title of The Glass Castle not only discusses the struggles they’ve been through it also illustrates with other people in the real world.
For example when Jeannette was trying to own up to her sister's promise she couldn’t. She wanted to so bad but to other people that had read that quote that's motivation that the author was trying to tell us. Why this illustrates with other people till today is that there's examples out in the real world with poverty and also have their own different type of struggles just as Jeannette’s. On the page 255 Jeannette presents again about being homelessness from the parents view making the entire situation that they’re in a great wild adventure. The parents disguise the truth to the kids making their lives look like a breeze in the wind and refuse to even tell the truth. The parents like being poor they say to Jeannette Walls and the other children because having money is being spoiled and giving your children too much attention is bad as well. The parents almost make it sound that being homeless good and being poor is a good thing. That is why when Jeannette and the other kids try offering money to help their parents they refuse. This describes a deep introduction to
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might not know how far it could affect them. Fiction has to be discluded in the curriculum because, we need more factual type of books that describe the real word, the world includes homeless, abuse, discrimination, stereotyping, not having responsibility, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, and starvation. The book, The Glass Castle relates to the real world it shows a similarity how people are low on income, how people try hard to get money, starve when they have no food, sleep on the floor because they have no bed, and trying to survive with an unstructured family. This book gives a message to the reader it describes the real world how people survived, how people dealt with humiliation and how people dealt with bad parents. This book is relevant to the real world it is how the world included homeless, abuse, discrimination, stereotyping, not having money, no responsibility, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol abuse and starvation. This all includs to people that have low income, people that had to wear the same clothes at school and people would humiliate you for being who you are. The message of this book relates to people and also can affect people as well. It shows similarity to people that are poor and have a struggle in the environment, it shows how people don’t have enough money to buy food for themselves or even for their family, an alcohol addiction affects money and also affects the people who surround you. This book is for anyone, that have an immature family and cannot support and take care of their family.
In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls and her family were poor they always traveled place to place for somewhere to sleep. Sometimes the parents would even steal for food and lie to their kids saying they got it from being good. Having to lie to your kids you start to believe your own lies is just a bad way of introducing your kids into the real world. Stealing when done consistently, you start just to get used to it. The parents did not steal for a want they did it for a need since they were poor. These parents were setting another bad example for their children instead of working for the food. Having no other choice but to steal is considered poverty. Poverty is living in a state of not having food not having a home not having things you desire or even things you need such as a bed and clothes. A quote from the book said in page 84 “Mom gave me a startled look. I’d broken one of our unspoken rules.” The social issue in this quote of the book was not saving the food and the mom thinking and telling her that she was selfish that she ate the sugared margarine and the last parts of bread because her and her sister were hungry so the mom was mad at her because Jeannette ate the last bit of their food. So the real issue is not having enough food for everyone and not having enough money for the food. The author's purpose to this quote is that the author is trying to say that there’s a social issue, which is that there's not enough food and since there's not enough food that means there's not enough money with the family. This quote proves my thesis because it's a real world issue on homelessness and also to other poor people. It also supports my point on starvation because if the kids weren’t so hungry they wouldn’t have eaten the jar of margarine, because of the lack of money in the family. Another quote from the book on page 77 talks about not having enough money or food for their pets “Mom liked to encourage self sufficiency in all living creatures.” When Jeannette’s mom said this is when she was telling Jeannette that they couldn’t afford pet food and they would rarely eat the scraps of the left overs. I feel like Jeannette was self including herself and her siblings in this quote “to all living creatures.” This quote supports my thesis about them having poverty and how they don't have enough money to pay for food, but when Jeannette starts thinking about what her mom had said she starts to think of herself and her family that they can't buy food for themselves. Why this quote relates to my thesis is how when she thought to herself and for her family about if they can't even buy food for their pets what makes it relevant that they can even by food for themselves. So why I strongly feel for this book is that this book should be read and included in an assignment for schools. This book is a non fiction book and an autobiography Jeannette talks about her struggles, and what her family has through. When I read this book it changed a part of me because this book is a learning lesson to understand what other people have been through and maybe to you as well. As I said, this book needs to be included in schools because reading is an essential part of school. When someone reads this from Jeannette other people could be going through the same struggle as her and her family and relate to her.
The Glass Castle has a relevance to the real world and also had abuse such as homeless, abuse, discrimination, stereotyping, not having money no responsibility, physical and sexual abuse, alcohol abuse and starvation. So what I meant by how this book is relevant to the real world because the book involved homeless and abuse and not having money and starvation, these things are involved in the real world. For example, you go look at New York City Manhattan and you see homeless people on the streets even maybe where you live. Anywhere you look you will see someone with a card board saying that they’re hungry and they need food that's homeless plus starvation. Imagine how they feel when people just look at them from any car or even in person, it's humiliating. A quote on page 112-113 talks about “She’d been reading books on how to cope with an alcoholic, and they said that drunks don’t remember their rampages, so if you cleaned up after them, they’d think nothing had happened. ‘Your father needs to see the mess he’s making of our lives, ‘Mom said. But when Dad got up, he’d act as if all the wreckage didn’t exist, and no one discussed it with him. The rest of us had to get used to stepping over broken furniture and shattered glass. In this quote the author is trying to tell us that when Rex Walls the father would gamble and drink he would get so angry and hurt the family and not even know it when he wakes up in the morning. How the reader is trying to tell us this is how when the mom announced to Jeannette “your father needs to see the mess he’s making of our lives.” This quote shows that he hurt their lives if he wouldn’t have gotten drunk or been an alcoholic their lives would have been okay instead of where they are at. This just proves to my thesis and why we should start reading non fiction books at our schools. This book just doesn't describe one issue in their family it points out multiple issues, such as in the quote he is an alcoholic and he messed up their lives and when he wakes up he doesn’t even notice a thing and goes on with his life as nothing happened. So this is why we should read more non fictional books instead of the tooth fairy coming to take your tooth under your pillow and giving you a penny or a dollar. This quote describes to Jeannette and how she tries protecting the family on page 206 “At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn't keeping my promise that I’d protect her, the promise I’d made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she’d been born. I couldn’t get her what she needed most. Hot baths, a warm bed, steaming bowls of cream of wheat before school in the morning but I tried to do little things.” This quote is about motivation she’s trying to explain she couldn’t do the things she promised her youngest sister. When Jeannette did her hardest trying to take care of her sister she only could have did the little things that were available to do for her. So how this is relevant to my thesis statement is how they’re poor and she couldn’t do the same things people with money. She was basically trying to be the mother, trying to set Maureen better than her and better than her parents. There’s so much more detail to the book as you have read so far. How Jeannette knows now about her dad, not knowing right from wrong and not even knowing what he as done to this family. We also now know about how Jeannette tried to be that mother figure to her baby sister Maureen, to set her straight and to help her be better and not be like their parents. Because now Jeannette understands who and what her parents are.
The title of The Glass Castle not only discusses the struggles they’ve been through it also illustrates with other people in the real world.
For example when Jeannette was trying to own up to her sister's promise she couldn’t. She wanted to so bad but to other people that had read that quote that's motivation that the author was trying to tell us. Why this illustrates with other people till today is that there's examples out in the real world with poverty and also have their own different type of struggles just as Jeannette’s. On the page 255 Jeannette presents again about being homelessness from the parents view making the entire situation that they’re in a great wild adventure. The parents disguise the truth to the kids making their lives look like a breeze in the wind and refuse to even tell the truth. The parents like being poor they say to Jeannette Walls and the other children because having money is being spoiled and giving your children too much attention is bad as well. The parents almost make it sound that being homeless good and being poor is a good thing. That is why when Jeannette and the other kids try offering money to help their parents they refuse. This describes a deep introduction to
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