Blythe Home Case Study

Imagine the life of a nomad, moving around to different place, meeting different people, and having different lifestyles. This is the life of the Walls family. In the book The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, she explains that life as a nomad was never amazing. Her life of moving around and being the same old poor child isn’t what she wanted to be. Throughout her journey, she has been discriminated and stereotyped for her family’s actions, and for the way she looks to the rest of the world. The point of this essay is to tell you that there are obstacles like this outside of the world of fiction. With the school board’s recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction provides, fiction should not remain

Think back to your own childhood. Could you imagine being a child, and not having a care in the world, but then, as quick as the snap of a finger, that all changes because of a thoughtless mistake made by your parents? In The Glass Castle it is revealed that as Jeannette grew up, she endured hardships inflicted upon her by her own parents. However, if Jeannette had not gone through these things, she never would have gained the characteristics that she values present day. Although Jeannette Walls faced hardships and endured suffering during her childhood, these obstacles formed her into a self-reliant woman who proves that just because you do not have as much money as other families, you can still achieve success in your life.

However, she does not finish the job, indicating that the little house on Hobart street could not be a permanent home. Fortunately, at the end of the novel, Jeanette finally has a home of her own. Walls state's, “I showed Mom and Lori the house… the first house I’d ever owned. Mom and Lori admired the planked floorboards, the big fireplaces, and the ceiling beams made from locust posts, with gouge marks from the ax that had felled them” (Walls, 287). Walls uses imagery to show the warmth and homey feel of her new home which contrasts to the other homes she had lived in before and represents how, after her whole life of dreaming, she finally has a home of her own. The theme of possessions also played a role in Walls’ memoir. Living in a life of poverty means the Walls’ family do not have what middle class families have such as toys, transport, and food. Therefore, when the Walls’ children get a present, it is cherished. In the desert, Rex comes home with three new bikes for the children as a surprise. Jeanette describes, “We ran out the front

By constantly moving around, Jeanette’s childhood was characterized by its instability and her own dependence on herself in order to survive the negligence of her parents. The glass castle symbolized a place where the Walls’ family would finally settle and become free of governmental intervention, however, it was through Jeanette’s realization that individualism was the underlying issue to her family’s problems, that she became aware of the impracticalness of being self-reliant. While Jeanette did have faith in her parents, her father’s continual inability to support his family and her mother’s own carelessness for her children, eroded all of Jeanette’s confidence. Jeanette’s decision to move to New York was not fueled by a need for individualism, however, it was in fact her desire to return to society and reintegrate into a world where she would be able to interact with other people. Thus, Jeanette's return to society signified her dependence of others and shows how individualism can never solve all of people's

In the detailed story of an impoverished family during the late 1900’s, Jeannette Walls describes her experience from the young age of 3, up until adulthood. The family of 6, with Rex Walls as the father, Rose Mary as the mother, and her three siblings, Lori, Brian and Maureen, were constantly moving throughout the country with little to no food or cash. The memoir shows how dysfunctional the family was, but never seemed to force the reader to condemn the parents. In a life of poverty, the have to move for own to town, and often lived in various mining towns. Although they each found something they learned to love (like Jeannette’s rock collection) in the desert, they had to leave them behind once Rex’s alcoholism only worsened, and they ran

Furthermore, after Montag requests that Mildred turn the parlor down for him, a “sick man,” she does absolutely “nothing” to the parlor and comes back, which demonstrates that Mildred is not willing to sacrifice her comforts of the wall TVs, even for the health and well-being of her husband. This highlights the fact that Mildred does not care about her husband, as she does not lower the volume of the parlor walls by even a fraction, and that she cares more about her own luxury of the parlor walls. Bradbury’s use of words in this section effectively communicates that Mildred is more emotionally attached to the “family” in the parlor walls than her real family, which illustrates that a large reliance on technology renders one more emotionally connected to technology than to actual people. Later on in the novel, Mildred sends an alarm to the fire department because her husband has hidden books in their home. As the fire truck pulls into their driveway, Mildred “shove[d] the valise in the waiting beetle, climb[s] in, and [sits] mumbling, ‘Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now’” (114). Once again, Mildred refers to the parlor walls as her “family.” Bradbury’s use of this word to describe Mildred’s connection to the parlor walls implies that the characters on the screen are real people with whom she has emotional attachments. Moreover, Mildred

According to Elizabeth Lowell, “Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.” Sometimes what every situation needs is an outsider to flip the script and create a new outlook on everything. In Shirley Jackson’s novel, “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” the speaker, Merricat, is an outsider of society on many levels, such as mental health, gender, and that she is an upper class citizen in a poor area. Although Merricat is mentally unstable, her outsider’s perspective criticizes the social standard for women in the 1960s, indicating that social roles, marriage, and the patriarchy are not necessary aspects in life such as it is not necessary to have the same outlook on life as others.

The Walls wear dirty clothes and doesn’t have much money to do laundry most of the time. “We loaded our dirty clothes into pillowcases and lugged them down the hill and up Stewart Street” (Walls 177). This is the first time in months they get to go to the laundromat and clean their clothes without Rex. Even though their clothes were clean other kids made fun of their living style. “‘Garbage! You live in garbage ‘cause you are garbage!’’’ (Walls 165). This describe how poor their living condition is and it hurt Jeannette, but she try to make the house more cheerful by painting the house yellow.

"We could live like this forever," I said. "I think we're going to," she said.” (Walls 2.3.20-2.3.21). As a child, Jeannette did not feel solicitous or worried towards her family’s unstable, rocky home life. Along with her mother, she enjoyed the adventure. Growing up, Jeannette develops a great shame for her family’s nomadic lifestyle and struggles not having money on the table to support every single one of them. Jeannette Walls, the author of her memoir, The Glass Castle is a resilient, hard-working, and mature young woman whose occupation is a journalist.

In defiance of his father’s wishes, Sonny continues to build rockets and gradually make something of himself outside of Coalwood, proving that he was in control of his future. In the same fashion, Jeannette Walls reaches beyond what others expect of her in The Glass Castle. The Walls children faced many hardships throughout their childhood. Due to their lack of money, their houses were almost always inadequate. One example of this is their house in Welch, West Virginia. The house is described as rustic, but in reality, lacked indoor plumbing and heating. In the winter, “It got so cold in the house that icicles hung from the kitchen ceiling, the water in the sink turned into a block of solid ice, and dirty dishes were stuck there as if they’d been cemented in place” (Walls 176). In the meantime, their parents, Rex and Rosemary, were not like most, and refused to conform to any standards society had for them. They taught “self sufficiency”, which often meant not working and wasting the little money they did have. While Rex did attempt to find a job, Rosemary blamed the children for the inadequate funds. “‘[Jeannette] can earn

Objects like the electric heater are almost symbolic of her current existence, devoid of any interaction with Nature, as opposed to a time when her ancestors would sit “at the camp fire in the bush” … “at one with old Nature’s lives”.  Her tone seems to imply that the past where her ancestors lived in peaceful harmony with nature, where the trees composed “their own music” is preferable to a present consisting of artificial comfort, “easy chair before electric heater”, a man-made luxury in replacement of camp fires. The reference to “No walls about me”, also possibly functions as a metaphor for the freedom the narrator and her ancestors once

Tim Youngclaus Mrs. Paglia & Mrs. Robinson English 10 CP, D Period 28 October 2014 Mildred’s Captivation Claim: In the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, leading a life blind to reality, Mildred is not truly happy for the reason that she uses sleeping pills as a distraction from reality and from the lack of engagement with others, discomposing herself to watch more tv. Mildred’s use of sleeping pills becomes dangerous when one night she takes too many and ends up overdosing. Montag tries to confront Mildred about it the morning after her overdose.

According to C. Joannides (personal communication, April 6, 2016), the hardest population to reach are the homeless individuals who like living the transient life; they do not want to stay in one place too long. Consequently, these individuals are not a good fit for the majority of services offered by the COMEA House as their purpose is to help individuals recover from any substance abuse issues and transition to independent living. The individuals who like to stay transient may take advantage of a meal and/or one night in the shelter, but not much more than that.

In the rural southern town of Wrongberight, one of its sixty-four residents, vivacious Clemmie Sue Jarvis, who stands 4 feet 3, and looks as if she weighs less than a hummingbird, turned fifty-nine last week. The townsfolk say she has less sense than the blessed Lord gave Johnny Homer’s jackass. In fact, this dent in her personality brightens up a dull day in Wrongberight. Today as the townsfolk were entering the Waylost Baptist Church for Sunday morning service they heard what transpired on Saturday night and instantly, their wagging tongues began to whisper Clemmie Sue’s name during Preacher Johnathan’s sermon.

Having the organization California Women for Agriculture in the area, the women who makes up the group advocates and stress the economic vitality of agriculture and the local foods it provides.