Rex Walls was the unconventional father due to the occasional endangerment of his children. People think he’s an unfit parent. However‚ Rex was a loving‚ caring father who teaches his kids important values‚ with many positive parenting traits who just messes up from time to time. Rex cares when he gives his kids stars for Christmas because he doesn’t have money for toys. Rex says‚ “Years from now‚ when all the junk [the other kids] got is broken and long forgotten‚ you’ll still have your stars”
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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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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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Hailey Schwab Block 3B Ms. Cyr 9/19/14 The Glass Castle The memoir entitled The Glass Castle‚ written by Jeannette Walls is a story of the eventful life Jeannette endured growing up with her three siblings and her parents. Jeannette lived a tough life‚ she was constantly moving‚ never had nice clothes to wear‚ and had to grow up faster than most children. The reason for the constant struggles in Jeannette’s life led back to her parents. Her father Rex Walls was outrageous‚ always making spur of
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Annotating (Glass Castle) Glass Castle Did you notice anything unusual about Jeannette Walls portrayal of poverty‚ or homelessness? * Even though they had bad times with food and other necessities‚ they still were happy as a family * When she was young‚ she viewed life as an adventure and when she got older and in West Virginia she started to see reality of her life and she didn’t want to be seen as the girl who lives in the beat up house and the family that didn’t always have food
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The Glass Castle 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. The first element Jeanette used to show how
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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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Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle‚ documents her childhood which is surrounded by poverty and inattentive parents. Both of the parents of the Walls children were self-absorbed in their own lives‚ the children learned that they must depend on each other to meet their own basic needs. Even though Rex Walls was an alcoholic and Rose-Mary was indulged in her paintings‚ they managed to teach their children the most important life lesson that well-rounded adults must know. The memoir expresses Jeannette’s
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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
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dogs again‚ I felt a blaze on my right side.”(9) Western Desert; (21 April 1960 – 20 April 1965); 1-5 years old The book revolves around the idea of the Glass Castle‚ not the Glass Castle itself. Her parents‚ especially her father‚ make many promises to her throughout her life‚ and each one of them is broken or never achieved. The Glass Castle stuck with her throughout her childhood‚ and the idea‚ that was never fulfilled‚ was first introduced to her by her father when she was a very young age.
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