Book Report Of Coming Home By Jeannette

Throughout the novel, the readers have the ability to follow along Jeanette’s life story. She deals with her distracted yet present parents. They remind her of the important lessons in life. One of the most important lessons that Jeannette learns is that life will eventually work in the end and if it still isn't working that just means it is not the end

The Glass Castle is a compelling memoir written by Jeanette Walls where she recalls some of the most prominent memories she has of her childhood. Jeannette uses imagery, symbolism, and varying tones in her writing which results in the realistic and exciting story of a young girl and her siblings growing up in poverty. While telling her story Jeanette uses vivid imagery as she tells her reader about her unique childhood. When telling her reader about her experience with getting burnt at age three Jeannette says, “I turned to see where it was coming from and realized my dress was on fire.

The summary of the story is a memoir, which is about Jeannette and her family who are constantly low on food and money, family moving around the country a lot, and having a hard time to re-settle. The family is very dysfunctional with a multiple of stories to tell. The book is filled with much different kind of experiences that the family including Jeannette has been through together.

is when she was three years old, she was burned while making hot dogs. This is clearly an event significant to her as she states was one of her earliest memories. "It's my earliest memory. I was tree years old…" (pg. 9) Jeannette also mentions how she became "fascinated with it", fire that is, when she continued to test her power of it. On page 15 she is passing her finger through a candle flame. She begins stealing matches from her father and continues a fascination over fire. It is a significant event, due to the fact that she set continual fires in several areas of the first Section.

As the book follows the life of Jeannette, her dream starts out as a fantasy of hope for her father. When her father was sober he was her best friend. Yet he developed a drinking problem right before Jeannette was born, that developed and worsened over the span of her life. Her mother accounts that when they lost a child, his drinking started,

A moment of like led to yet another moment of dislike, a continuous pattern I felt throughout the entire book for both parents.

The story begins with Jeanette Walls riding in the taxi in New York, on her way to the event when she notices her mother out the window digging through the trash. Even though her mother has been homeless for years, she feels shame about her mother’s life. This leads her to think about her childhood and how her parents’ choices affected her.

Jeannette talks about how her parents at times were ignorant at how they were parenting. For example, Jeannette states countless situations in the book where she felt excluded or neglected. There was a situation in the book where she was cooking or preparing herself hotdogs and she got her dress on fire. The flames grew on her rapidly and the injuries became severe; soon after that her mother and father expressed to her that they were little to no concerned about their daughter. In the book it states, “Mom, in an unnaturally calm voice, explained what had happened and asked if we could please have a ride to the hospital. The woman dropped her clothespins and laundry right there in the dirt and, without saying anything, ran for her car” (9-10). This just shows the mother wasn’t the least bit scared for her daughter’s life, she didn’t even panic or react the way a mother should. With that being said, we can even notice that the neighbor was more affected by the situation than that of the mother. This is the earliest stories Jeannette can recall, which is mentioned in her book, and all the stories and memories after that only go to show the neglectful lifestyle she had to endure. It is really a sad reality of this woman’s life. However, Jeannette Walls is now a successful author, and journalist in New York, is one of the few people in this world that has made a successful life from a horrible and neglectful

Jeannette had a very challenging and awful childhood. Jeannette is forced to be independent and take care of herself in ways most children should not. She realizes at a young age that her life is unpredictable. Early in the memoir,

Jeannette was always dirty from her adventurous because she lived in the desert for some time and would chase around the wild animals and insects. Jeannette was always traveling with her family and had no control of her life. Her parents were selfish, law breaking people who couldn't keep a job. Jeannette was young and didn't understand why her parents

Her family regularly avoided paying rent by moving from place to place, shoplifted items, and generally lived against the society around them. At the beginning of the book, Jeanette is boiling water on the top of the stove. She turned away from the stove only to have her clothes catch fire. Her mother smothers the fire with a blanket and drives Jeannette to the hospital. Six weeks later, her father comes to visit her alone and says that she’s going to be checking out.

Throughout the book I have been in constant disbelief. To start off it is unbelievable the way Jeannette’s parents think. After Jeannette being burned due to her making her own food, her parents still think it is ok for a three-year-old to use the stove. The next problem is their constant moving. I think children need stability.

Jeannette is the second child of four children. She tells her life story through the book. She starts out from her earliest memory, when she was three years old, and into her adulthood. Her actions foreshadows that she will be successful when she grows up away from her parents. Since Jeannette’s parents were often careless of their children, Jeannette had to take care of younger siblings and work to get money for food, but she still loved her parents. Eventually, she decided to leave her parents and go to New York. There she became a successful author and journalist.

The story starts with Jeannette being old and living in Ney York City. Later in the second chapter she tells a story from when she was three years old and there is when her story continues. There is also a set of scenes in which Jeanette talks about her journeys that she lived and places were she moved out when she was a child and an adolescent. Jeannette explains how they as kids were forced to look for food she describes how they lived as a dysfunctional family, and how she ended back again into her adulthood life in New York City.

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