The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls Essay Thesis

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
The physical struggles mentioned above also come together to form the large struggle of finaical insecurity. Walls expresses in the novel that she along with the rest of her family went without food for weeks because of the lack of funds. Jeannette describes a scence where in her elementary school bathroom she would pick out the leftover food that the other children would throw out. Jeannette shows her lack of understanding when her peers “tossed away all this perfectly good food; apples, hard-boiled eggs, packages of peanut-butter crackers, sliced pickles, half-pint cartons of milk, cheese sandwiches with just one bite taken out because the kid didn’t like the pimentos in the cheese” (173). She points out that sometimes there was more food in the trash then she could of eaten, this is when she begins to take some of the food to her brother to ensure that he was eating as well, but she does not take any home for her mother. With the state of the Walls’ finaicial insecurity comes the the undeniable fact that they were unable to pay rent. Therefore the Walls family moved quite often to avoid the bill collecters or as her father