Poverty In The Glass Castle

Poverty modifies the rhythm of life and language (De Boeck 147). This is shown in Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle as we follow the impoverished Walls family through their life on the road. Poverty can impact several areas in a person’s life, such as learning disabilities, physical health, mental health, and personal safety. All of which can seriously affect a young child’s development into adulthood. The children of this novel go through some rather disturbing things that most people if effected by them would cause them to freak out, but these children are so used to this destitute state that the repercussions of living this way has little to no effect on them.
Research shows there is a direct correlation between learning disabilities and poverty. Poverty more often than not causes a person’s IQ to suffer or drop severely below the average and to delay a person’s ability to comprehend and develop
There is always something out there that can hurt them. Families that live in poverty contain high levels of domestic violence (Hamzelou 42). Some neighborhoods can be so bad that even the police cannot protect them and the citizens have to take matters in their own hands. The Sans Fil Neighborhood is so bad that even though the local police are stationed nearby, they have to create their own security team (De Boeck 151). In The Glass Castle the family had to face some serious safety issues, all of which were mainly at fault of the parents but the kids make the best of it. When Jeannette was almost raped by a stranger who just walked into her room they went “Pervert Hunting.” They did almost the exact same thing when there was a snake living in their trailer except they called it “Demon Hunting.” The house in West Virginia was falling apart while they were living inside it and yet the children did what they could to make the place feel like home. They knew how to make the best of every awful thing that came their