Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Rex Walls

Jeannette lived a very underprivileged life, it was always difficult for her to see the good in everyone, especially her parents. Somehow she managed love them anyway. The Walls’ were always traveling around without a clue as to where they were going, often running from financial crime. However, Jeannette and her siblings found that there was, in fact,so much to admire of their parents. and looking at any situation you can see Rex’s optimism, and Rose Mary’s loyalty.

In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls tells the story of her childhood and describes her life in poverty. She had experienced what injustice was first hand. Her father, Rex, was an alcoholic that spent all of their money on booze. Because of this, they never had any money to spend on a house or food. They were always moving because they did not pay their bills and were running away from their problems. Her mother, Rose Mary, was irresponsible and only thought about herself. She refused to get a job and when she did, her kids had to drag her out of bed every morning. She did not watch her children and she let them do whatever they wanted. This caused the children to get into trouble with other kids and even adults. She spent money on useless commodities and could not afford to buy her starving children any food. Every day, the children had to rummage through the trash to find food to eat. When Jeannette finally realized she did not want to live with injustice anymore she left. It was very hard for her father to watch her go but she did not look back. She started focusing on the future and became a successful journalist. This was one of the many ways she gained her justice back. She offered to help her parents by buying them clothes and offering them money. She was trying to make everything just again by giving her parents what they never gave to her. Her parents never took any of her gifts because they saw it as charity and did not appreciate it. The injustice that happened to Jeannette made her who she is today. If she did not go through all of those injustices, she might not have realized that her passion in life was to write. It has made her a better person and she can now help others going through the same thing through her writings.

Although we all have an idealistic dream of a perfect life, we should always see life how it is and not how you want it to be. Dreaming big has inspired many people into creating things like no one has ever seen;however, I believe in thinking realistically since life is how it is not how you want it to be and not all dreams go as planned.

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.

Stefany Tejada The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls, the author and narrator of The Glass Castle, begins her memoir with the memory of being burned as a child. The story of how she was burnt shows both her mother and father’s parenting styles. Her mother’s inattentive and irresponsible parenting led to Jeannette catching on fire. Part of this memory also includes being dramatically removed from the hospital by her father, Rex Walls.

“No child is born a delinquent,” Mom said. They only become that way, she went on, if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to become serial murderers or alcoholics” (83). The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls is the second oldest child in a household of four children. Throughout the story, the reader is taken on Jeannette’s journey as she recounts growing up with dysfunctional parents. Parents who chose the life of poverty. Although her parents were neglectful, irresponsible, and selfish, Jeannette does not tell this story with shame or resentment, but rather with forgiveness. It is with the parent’s unconditional love and a few redeeming qualities that render self-sufficiency which

Any man that has children has the responsibility to be the best role model they can be. Been the best role model for a child is going to shaped how that child is going to be when they become an adult. But, if they are bad role model to their children, then, the children's future would not turn out to be successful, but very few can be successful. In the novel, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Rex, Jeannette’s father, is an unsympathetic character because of his horrible example to his children. This can be viewed throughout the book because he is an alcoholic, uncaring, and selfish person. Rex is a very irresponsible person that only very few can relate.

Does being neglected help or hinder children? Traditionally, we think of neglect as a form of abuse. However, the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, poses the possibility that being neglected as a child can actually help the child to grow up to lead a successful and independent life as an adult. The memoir details the life of author Jeannette Walls and her siblings and how they escaped their impoverished and abusive childhoods to find success and happiness as adults in New York City. Being left to fend for herself as a child allowed Jeannette to become an independent, self- sufficient, and successful adult.

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.

Undeniable Love Jeannette Walls, an American writer and journalist, recounts her most loved childhood memories she went through with her father, Rex Walls, in the novel The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls, comes to adore her father even after all his recklessness and comes to realize that these are portions of the best times in her life. In spite of many occurrences in which her father neglects to ensure his kids, declined to assume liability for them, and even stole from them, Jeannette still adores him until his diminishing days for two reasons: his consistent capacity to make her feel special and his ceaseless source of motivation. Walls purpose is to express the atmosphere she experienced childhood in and demonstrates that a harsh adolescence,

“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

After reading the first 28 pages of the The Glass Castle one question I have is, why was Jeannette’s family homeless because in the book it seemed like her father was very intelligent and could have a well paying job. The author stated in the book that her father was very good at math and electricity despite having never earned a college degree. Another question I have about the text is why did her father dislike hospitals so much and preferred the care of a “witch” doctor? Could it be religious beliefs or simply the cost of medical treatment. I have this question because in the text the author said how her father carried her out of the hospital after about six weeks and ran out the door. Prior to this, her father also had some arguments with

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, is the memoir of a girl who faced many hardships from the start of her life due to her parents’ insufficiencies. The daughter of penniless but strikingly independent nomads, she struggled to keep her family afloat. Despite the adversity the main character continuously faced, she eventually achieved her goals by never giving up. Instead, she moved forward and gained not only strength, but wisdom from the many challenges she encountered. The quote from St. Francis of Assisi, “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle” is a model for the life Jeannette achieved, learning from her suffering.

In the memoir The Glass Castle, readers get to witness* author-Jeannette Walls * mature into a successful journalist by persevering through her tumultuous past. Amongst the wrongdoings of her parents, Jeanette uses their lack of responsibility to further her success. Jeanette's mother- Rose Mary Walls lives a life of greed, often viewing others as a distraction to establishing herself as a well-renowned artist. Rose Mary’s selfish attitude motivated Jeanette’s development into the altruistic person she is today.

The Glass castle is a memoir of the peculiar childhood and family of Jeanette Walls. The memoir was turned into a movie, which was released August 11, 2017. The movie was written by Destin Cretton and Andrew Lanham. Over 5 million copies of the book have been sold and the movie and the movie has grossed approximately twenty million dollars. Movies that are derived from books usually come across complications when they are compared and critiqued from the standard of the book. When movies are created from a book they have to cut scenes and important details from the book. In the article “The Trouble with Making Books We Love into Movies” by The Atlantic, says, “But any way you look at it, the movie version of a widely successful book is bound to go wrong”(Paragraph 4, Doll). This helps solidify