The Power to Overcome Sid Udayan January 10‚ 2012 ENG4U1 Ms. Skakic It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. This is evident in Jeannette Walls’ memoir‚ The Glass Castle‚ which reiterates the story of Jeannette who is raised within a family that is both deeply dysfunctional and distinctively vibrant. Jeannette is faced with numerous barriers throughout her life. Despite the many obstacles set forth by her parents during her
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In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls‚ four dysfunctional kids learn how to grow up on their own and take on new responsibilities due to the absence of their parents. The parents‚ Rex and Rose Mary live very different lives but seem to always be on the same page when it comes to doing things for there kids. The story takes place in many different states because Jeanette’s dad Rex does not always have a stable job. The Walls family moved to various towns in the Desert until they had to
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Jeannette Walls’ memoir‚ The Glass Castle‚ Jeanette’s unconventional childhood is characterized by constant poverty and the chaos and confusion of having dysfunctional parents along with their nomadic lifestyle‚ moving from neighborhood to neighborhood. What is exceptional about Jeanette’s story is that although her parents were irresponsible‚ neglectful and careless‚ they were still able to manage to instill admirable qualities in their children and raise sane adults. Jeanette’s parents‚ Rex and Rose
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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
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In the book “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls poverty goes deeper than just low income. Even while Jeannette’s parents had money coming in‚ they struggled to support their family properly. They went hungry‚ had no electricity‚ or even indoor plumbing‚ so this proposes the question can poverty be caused by more than just low income? Do people actually want to live in poverty? For Jeannette’s parents it sure seems that way. Rex Walls had grown up in a poverty stricken town of Welch. He grew
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Alcoholism is a very prevalent problem in The Glass Castle and Jeanette Walls’ life. This quote from the book‚ “No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics‚” (Walls 83) shows how much her life was influenced by this problem. Maybe she knows what happened in her father’s past that turned him to alcohol‚ and maybe she thinks that when people are treated the way she is by her father
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serene‚ extravagant - the glass castle. In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls‚ the image of the glass Castle was Jeannette’s symbol of trust in her dad that he would stop drinking and strike it rich to get them out of poverty‚ so that the family could live a better life. Jeannette’s father was an alcoholic and her mom was unmotivated. The family moved around frequently while living on their dad’s low paying series of odd jobs. While still believing in the glass castle and her father‚ Jeannette
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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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A Silver Lining in The Glass Castle If friends are the family we choose‚ then family are the people we are either luckily or unfortunately stuck with. While friendship can make an escape from an insufferable family‚ if you had the childhood of author‚ Jeanette Walls‚ you might have found friendships are difficult to forge when your family makes you a social pariah. Walls spent her childhood as a nomad through small desert towns‚ impoverished and at the whim of her eccentric parents. Her father fell
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In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls the parenting style most exemplified by Rex and Rosemary Walls is permissive because they avoid serious situations‚ didn’t act like responsible adults‚ and were more friends than parents. Permissive parents avoid serious situations‚ “avoid confrontation” (Cherry‚ The Four Styles of Parenting). “I’d broken one of our unspoken rules: We are always supposed to pretend our life was one long incredibly fun adventure” (Walls 69). The parents didn’t want to come face
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