Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

People all the time question who has made the biggest impact in our life and then we have these people that we look up to, but that didn’t raise us or give birth to us. The memoir The Glass Castle, by. Jeannette Walls would prove that the people who affect us the most are our parents because they are there for us all the time and we spend our whole life up with them until maturity.

In Jeannette Walls’s, The Glass Castle, a complex relationship forms between Rex and Rose Mary, and their children. Most of the time, Jeannette, Lori, and Brian, were left to take care of not only themselves, but their little sister, Maureen; fending for the utmost basic essentials, such as food and shelter. Throughout the memoir, one may see that many of the situations Jeannette found herself in, are some of the most poignant moments. Each experience was difficult with her parents’ during her upbringing. Her selfish yet free-spirited mother and alcoholic father were too lazy and self absorbed to keep decent jobs. Any range of emotions are expressed, due to how Jeannette seems fond yet

A trauma narrative is a narrative that describes an experience or experiences that cause someone to be destressed and cannot be incorporated into their memory easily. Throughout her own traumatic narrative, Jeannette Wall’s describes different aspects of her everyday life that showcase various levels of significance. She is able to show how certain life events impact her plans for escaping her current socioeconomic status and her plans for the future. The text is also able to tell us about trauma, poverty, ourselves, and our society. Furthermore, the text demonstrates the impact that trauma and poverty can have and how they can have lasting effects. These concepts help us to think about our own life experiences and situations and they also show us how to be analytical about our society. Lastly, this narrative is able to reveal to us the different aspects of a traumatic childhood and how important and impactful this type of upbringing can be. Jeannette Walls uses her own traumatic autobiography to show that despite her adverse upbringing in poverty and passive and unattached parenting she was able to become successful. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, shows the benefits and the value that can come from having a traumatic narrative. This is significant because it shows that an experience can shape a person, but a person can also shape the experience.

Having parents that tried so hard to set themselves apart from society, all while struggling to earn money, had an impact on their children's lives, and it wasn't for the better. These children lived to struggle. With a bad home life, and parents that didn't seem to care for them enough, Jeannette, Brian, Maureen, and Lori Walls all eventually moved away from their careless parents, to New York. Although it took time for Lori and Jeannette Walls to save up what little money they had, due to the fact that the father continually stole it, they were able to move to New York successfully. Later in the memoir, their parents also decide to move there, except they don't try to better their lives like their

Of the many situations that Jeannette would constantly relocate and have issues from instability within her family. It was assumed that while the Walls children were young both Rex and Rosemary saw no problem with involuntary uprooting. They would make it like a game for the children. Among the effects of moving that didn’t come to consideration or the lack of emotional growth, poor education, and by far a stable environment. Many of the locations that the Walls would live in would be spoiled by an incident that would essentially give Jeannette and her siblings the ticket to leave. The Glass Castle opens with an incident where Jeannette gets burned trying to make her own food. Following the trip to the hospital Rex sneaks Jeannette out of the building to skip town and the medical bill. Adversity even follows Jeannette to New York after she leaves the family and deals with the discovery that her parents had followed. Not only was the road to make it to New York difficult, but now dealing with her mangled family continued to weigh on her. Reluctantly, Jeannette learns from these experiences. The incident with the burn is inferring the resilience of Jeannette and how she would be able to contain the madness. Adversity in New York near the end of the story shows us that despite the problems in the past Jeannette is a compassionate being and strong enough to go help the people that could have ruined her

“We don’t accept handouts form anyone” says Rose Mary Walls, the mother of Jeannette Walls. In the memoir The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls she describes events from her life from childhood to adulthood and how she overcame her struggles. She had to adjust to her family’s situation and comply with how her parents wanted her to act, which was to be independent. Walls’ memoir embodies the theme of being self-sufficient by illustrating scenes that take place in hers and her siblings life that demonstrate the need to become self-sufficient. Jeannette Walls has been learning how to be independent from a young age.

Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle depicts her harsh, broken childhood. Walls records somber moments with an upbeat attitude. Her demeanor displays her bravery in the darkest of times. With determination, Walls conquered her challenges and rose to the top.

The formation of character all relies on upon the individual. Identity can be formed by the general population one surrounds his or herself with, the earth one lives in, or even past occasions of triumph and disappointment. Jeannette Walls, author of the celebrated around the world book The Glass Castle, demonstrates that the potter that formed and molded her identity was the critical occasions held in her past. Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose beliefs and difference of opinion were both their condemnation and their salvation. Rex and Rose Walls had four kids.

It would be absurd to believe that one is the product of their upbringing. It is, in fact, most definitely possible to have a successful life after going through a rough childhood. Phillip Bartlett states, “I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” Throughout the memoir, Jeannette Walls constantly proves this statement to be correct. Despite the abuse from her parents and her forager lifestyle, Walls goes on to attend Barnard college and become a successful writer.

Jeannette’s entire adolescent life consisted in never really having a real home to call her own. While she lived in many places her father's inability to hold a job because of his volatility as his pride kept them from having everything that the Walls needed. Constantly moving to escape unpaid bills, casinos that Rex had knocked off, or inability to find work the Walls family was constantly on the move. As a young child Jennette is able to cope with sudden changes because of her father's ability to make her believe in the vision “The Glass Castle” that he will build for the family once they strike gold and become rich. The inability to have a stable home with a stable income has a direct correlation to the father's struggles. You see that Rex loves his family but doesn’t have the power to fight his notions of a real man is so his family continues to struggle. The fact that he can’t ask for help or graciously accept help from people willing to provide for them aids instability and in the hunger. The memoir does show how stability and instability can be good as well as bad in people's lives. Forced to grow up a little faster than most the Walls children learned that the only people they could count on were each

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls provides its readers with a personalized incite towards her past, a new perspective to her life and how the chooses she made in her past shaped her into who she is today. The novel is written in her perspective, this giving a full understanding of what she as the author is feeling, seeing, and living through. Non-the less it also provides an understanding of the other characters that became important in her life and what their role was in it. For example, a person Jeannette admired and even looked up to was her father. He is of course an example of turbulence in her life. Either his alcoholism, anger issues, or even gambling problems she still found a way to find the good in him through all the bad.

Although allowing children to individually solve their problems fosters independence, avoiding parental responsibilities erodes a child and parent’s relationship. In The Glass Castle, author Jeannette Walls conveys this theme through her parents neglect, especially when she faces physical and emotional peril.

[We have all heard the phrase helicopter parent. A helicopter parent is a parent who watches over every single aspect of their child's life. Almost all of us can say that at one point we have seen or even had a helicopter parent around us, but can we say the same about the opposite? Do we see parents that come home drunk or are selfish or don’t care much for their children? ]

The irregular and sometimes harsh childhood of Jeannette Walls is finally revealed in the memoir The Glass Castle. Jeannette’s story is filled with hardship and many times of nomadic and daring adventures through the desert. Walls uses a broad variety of her experiences that relate in both pathological and ethological manners, and voices a story full of an inferior and unsettling lifestyle through realism and heartfelt passion.

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls is a perfect example to an incite of her past event. The memoir as well as her autobiography, gave a new perspective to her life that showed how she become the person she is and the most important moments in her life that changed her. Though the book is only in her view, it does give an inside on the lives of the other character. But, it doesn’t show what is really going on with them. For example, Jeannette’s father struggled with alcoholism, though she always has a remarkable view of him. There had been certain things in the book that show that his life was struggling. Such as on page 43 when Jeannette’s mom jumped out of the moving car and ran into the darkness. Starting the fight