“The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls, is a novel about the hardships throughout her life and the several lives of her family and how they overcome those hardships. Within the novel, Jeanette goes into detail about some of the incidents that her parents made and how they each chose a different parenting style. Her father, Rex Walls, was very hands on with his parenting, while contrasting her mother Rose Mary was very relaxed in her parenting technique. In each of the tiny stories Jeanette told during the novel, they each revealed more about how her parents chose to raise her and her siblings. In order to be a successful parent it takes hard work and a lot of effort, but you have to achieve a balance between both hands- on and relaxed parenting.…
Jeannette Walls is an author of many books, one of which being her memoir The Glass Castle. After years keeping her story a secret, in 2005 Jeannette’s husband inspired her to write her sad story for the world to see. Through the 288 pages, Jeanette illustrates her story of a life as nomads constantly on the move, with a passive mother and a drunken father. The stories she shares show the side of an abusive childhood that we rarely have the opportunity to understand. The glass castle is shattered in the reader's face, and its pieces rebuild their broken perspective.…
Although it is recalled in Jeannette Walls’s memoir Glass Castle her hard and difficult childhood, Jeannette Walls says that “we were luckier than other kids.” This is because of the fact that the Walls children have each other. Lori, Brian, and Jeannette continue to look after each other throughout their childhood. When Billy Deel starts attacking the Walls children with a BB gun, Lori “had Dad’s pistol, and she pointed it dead at Billy” (Walls 88). Although Lori is the most unlikely of any of the children to shoot the gun, she does it anyway in order to protect her family. In addition, Jeannette spends her whole summer working to earn money in order to support Brian and Maureen. Even after paying for food and other necessities, Jeannette…
The parenting style that the Wall’s use on their kids is very different from what other parents use on kids. Jeanette’s mother Rose Mary is not motivated to do a lot of stuff for her kids. Rose Mary is supposed to play the role of caring for the kids and watching over them while the father is at work. The father, Rex Walls, is supposed to provide for the family such as, bring home money and food for the kids to survive. Throughout the book the parents, Rose Mary and Rex, often do not pay attention to their kids and are not responsible in looking after them. This issue causes the Walls’ kids to work for what they needed and how to be more independent in life. The Walls’…
Due to her family’s constant negatively impacted actions, Jeannette grows to mistrust them. One such action happens near the beginning of the book, when the kids are still trusting and loyal to their parents. It was in Battle Mountain while the weather was cold, and the dad figured that to warm up the family was going to go to a hot spot up north. So the family visits the waterhole and starts to swim in it. During that time Jeannette is the only one out of the three kids that could not swim, so Rex takes it upon himself to teach her. Unfortunately, Rex’s method of teaching was unorthodox as well as dangerous. The method involved dragging Jeannette to the middle of the water and prying her loose from him, allowing her to sink underneath while…
In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls, the author, was most influenced by here time in Battle Mountain, as indicated by how she describes the desert and how they learned to improvise and make time useful. “ The thing we liked to do the most was exploring the desert.” ( Walls 54). In this quote Jeanette expresses her favorite thing to do while in Battle Mountain is to explore the desert and the wilderness. I think that she benefited for better becuase of this, since now she has the resources to show and express her curiosity about the world around her and that’s why she explores.…
In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls describes her childhood and her views of the world as she grew up. She pushed herself through poverty to eventually become successful. Throughout the book, Jeannette describes her horrific ordeals and crazy adventures her family had. They moved to dozens of different places and even lived in the family car for some time. The Glass Castle shows Jeannette’s power of forgiveness, a common theme in the book.…
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tell about young Jeanette’s life living with her family. They’re poor,hungry and living in bad conditions. It tells about how she get’s out of the life she’s living, and makes something of herself in New York. In this excerpt, Jeannette’s family moves into a new house in Welch, after Jeanette’s father’s mother kicks them out of her basement. Jeanette’s mother tries to use her positive thinking to help her children deal with the poor conditions they live in, but she’s actually just hiding her problems. The author conveys that her mother’s positive thinking is only hiding their real problems by using the literary element, characterization.…
The Glass Castle was written by the author, Jeanette Walls and she is also the protagonist of the book. The book tells the story of Jeanette Walls and her family life. It shows how they basically struggled day in and out like being short on food and money, they always moved around the country just to find a place to settle in.…
Jeannette Walls’ lIfe seemed to be such an oddIty that she decIded to wrIte an autobIography entItled The Glass Castle. Her life's story was a best sellIng novel for some tIme and Is now crItIcally acclaImed. Her struggles throughout her chIldhood and adolescence are now world famous and studIed by Liberty-Benton EnglIsh 12 students. The early lIfe Issues of the Walls chIldren mostly came from theIr strange parents and theIr tendency to gamble and throw all of theIr money away. They were often hard pressed to fInd food and they moved frequently so Jeannette and her sIblIngs could never fIt…
To begin with, The Glass Castle is a memoir that follows Jeannette Walls and her family. Throughout the book Jeannette, her brother and sisters, and her parents move throughout the southwest living in all kinds of different places, but no matter where they go they are always facing poverty. Rex, Jeannette’s father, is a brilliant man, who when sober, taught Jeannette and her sisters and brother physics, geology, and most of all, how to take on life courageously. Rose Mary, Jeannette’s mother, who painted and wrote, could not handle…
In Jeannette Walls’ memoir “The Glass Castle” many of her family members and other people in the book display certain characteristics that make her story unique and intriguing. Often such characteristics can cause problems for the characters and sometimes their own downfall. In particular, Jeannette’s father displays irresponsibility that affects not only him, but the other people in the story as well. This ultimately ends up causing his downfall and his children losing faith in him.…
The Glass Castle, a memoir written by Jeannette Walls is an eye-opening look at the world of poverty that touches so many lives within in the United States. There are many reasons for poverty wheather they be out of consequence or one is simply born into it there are many reason for its occurance. The story of Jeannette Walls is not only inspiring but motivating as her climb from the depths poverty allow her to become the successful journalist and novelist she is today. Throughout her life there have been many struggles including her own father, Rex Walls, the finicial instability their family faces together, and the bullies Jeannette must face alone. She clearly outlines her own growth with her father throughout the novel and proves that with…
Throughout the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, it’s unavoidable that the parents’ irresponsible and terrible actions…
Do you think that too much change in a family can cause dysfunction? Well in the story “The Glass Castle” the author Jeanette Walls tells her story about how the changes in her family caused dysfunction amongst them. Through her experiences, she shows her readers how changes caused mainly by her father changed the lives of their family. In “The Glass Castle” the author uses simile, imagery, and flashback to show the message of change.…