Book Report On The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Writer, Jeannette Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle, provides an insight into the fanciful and shocking life of growing up poor and nomadic with faux-grandiose parents in America. With her memoir, Wall's purpose was to acknowledge and overcome the difficulties that came with her unusual upbringing. Her nostalgic but bitter tone leaves the reader with an odd taste in their mouth. In some memories, the author invites her audience to look back on with fondness; others are viewed through bulletproof glass and outrage.

“Have I ever let you down?” (Walls). Rex Walls asks his children this question numerous times throughout the book. It shows how he is denying all the times he acts out and damages his family. In the children’s opinion, Rex is destroying the family piece by piece by being selfish with his intimidating threats. Leaving the children scared gives him more power and control over the family. Although well intentioned, Rex, from The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls, is self-absorbed, and thus impacts his children in a negative way.

People often fall into some sticky situations, but how they deal with them is the thing that matters most. In The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, she takes the readers through her life, starting at her earliest memory as a three-year-old, constantly living in a state of homelessness. Throughout the story, Walls experiences countless situations from her father being an alcoholic, to everyday school bullies. She uses a series of coping mechanisms to deal with, and sometimes terminate these issues. In fact, everyone of her siblings and parents uses various coping methods for these same situations. These methods may not always be the most effective, but people, including the Walls family, nevertheless use them to get by on their

Jeanette Walls and her out of the ordinary family live their lives surrounded in pure craziness and poverty. Jeanette has been raised to be as independent as her age allows her. At age three she could make herself a hot dog and by the age of eighteen she had started a new life in New York away from the craziness that followed her parents throughout the kids nomadic childhood. Jeanette and her siblings Lori, Brian and Maureen live their childhoods with almost nothing. They were always wondering where their next meal would come from and where there parents had mysteriously disappeared to. Rex Walls, the father and husband was a severe alcoholic who spent most of his money on gambling or a beer from a local bar. Rose Mary Walls, the mother and wife was not better, never being to hold onto a job for long enough to get paid and support her family caused many problems for Rose Mary, Rex and most importantly… the kids. The kids all had the dream of escaping the prison their parents called home and heading to New York or California where they could feel endless happiness. The kids grow up with almost no parents, which forces them to become independent from the day they were born. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeanette's parents teach her to only rely on herself and never get attached to something you can lose, forcing Jeanette to become strong and independent throughout her childhood.

In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls was faced with many life changing and hard obstacles. Many people who have read this book think that these hardships have helped her later in life. Her parents were never there for her when she was growing up. Her dad was a raging alcoholic who spent all of his money away at the bars. Her mom was intelligent, but still never seemed to help much with Jeanette and her siblings. Even though her parents were not much help, she loved them the same no matter what. When Jeanette was younger, she was constantly bullied at her new schools, but never went home and told on the kids her had beat her up. She stood up for herself even if she knew she had no chance at winning the fight. This showed how brave and strong

The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is an autobiographical novel that shows how hard life can be when you have little to no money and highly deteriorated parents. During the whole memoir it shows how hard it is to live in poverty while at the same time trying to raise a family. The exposition of the novel is how having parents that cannot support their children because the lack of a stable income. The rising action is when Jeannette was in a taxi cab going to a party when she sees her mother digging through the trash can and feels embarrassed and tells the taxi driver to take her home. The major conflict in the novel is a man vs. man because Jeannette, her brother, and her sister are all affected by her

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”(66). Jeannette Walls, the author of The Glass Castle, became the best swimmer in all types of water, rough, deep, shallow, calm, and stormy. The book The Glass Castle is an autobiography about Jeanette’s, traumatic life growing up in an alcoholic and abusive household. Rose Mary and Rex Walls raised their children with tough love and never spoonfed them. Jeanette, the second oldest child, ended up facing multiple deathly and scarring situations during her childhood. Through all the adversity, Jeannette Walls learns that forgiveness and self sufficiency are key for success, which demonstrates, which demonstrates the power of independence and mental strength’s ability to create life-changing

The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about her struggles through life. She explains her struggles and how she worked to overcome all of them. Her family was constantly on the move, because they could never keep the house or the dad would lose his job. Her first memory was when she was burned from cooking hot dogs and her parents took her out of the hospital before it was time. They would constantly struggle with hunger and while the mom had a teaching license she never wanted to work, all she wanted to do was paint and write. They could never really afford much for christmas and all they really had was each other. While my struggles may seem like nothing compared to hers, I have had to overcome many things. Track and field has been my biggest success and my biggest failure all at the same time; I have had to overcome many

Author, Jeannette Walls, in her novel, The Glass Castle, from pages 226 to 230, exemplifies the themes of escapism and betrayal. In this chapter, Walls’s purpose is to identify the instability that her family is going through. Through her diction, Walls creates various tones in order to convey to her audience that despite obstacles, it is possible to escape from a dysfunctional family in hopes of a brighter future. Walls begins the chapter by recalling incidents of disappointment.

Reading a book that is similar to The Glass Castle by Jeannette wall can help build a student’s resilience especially if that student is in a tough moment in his/her life. The article The Importance Of Resilience has some what similar problems like The Glass Castle. In the article the author discussed, about a man named Quashone. When Quashone was younger he lived in a bad neighborhood, from living there it lead to some bad decisions that he made. After telling his mom, those bad decisions they moved to a different neighborhood (Gorman, et al). Just by that one change in his life, it turned upside down from getting into trouble to graduating from college and having a family of his own. From reading books that are like The Glass Castle it can teach people, especially students, on how to build resilience accepting support, drive, and hard work.

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, focuses on how a young girl attempts to live a "normal" life, while her own parents struggle to separate themselves from society. The memoir does provide evidence that shows how individualism can be beneficial, but nonetheless, there is also supporting evidence that represents the consequences. In this particular case, the benefits obtaining a sense of individualism don't outweigh the possible consequences, but instead the consequences outweigh the benefits.

Reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls can help build a student’s resilience especially if that student is in a tough moment in his or her life. The Glass Castle shows that Jeannette the main character suffered from a life she now looks back on and did not like. Her life turned upside down after living alone in a house that was falling apart and she had no food to sustain herself, she moves to New York with her sister Lori, in the hope of finding a better life. There is going to be motivation based on being consistent in a daily task that students would be faced with. Being invested in their education can help students become hard workers to build up their resilience. Having a desire to achieve the goal that the students has set for themselves.

Writer, Jeannette Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle, provides an insight into the fanciful and shocking life of growing up poor and nomadic with faux-grandiose parents in America. With her memoir, Wall's purpose was to acknowledge and overcome the difficulties that came with her unusual upbringing. Her nostalgic but bitter tone leaves the reader with an odd taste in their mouth. In some memories, the author invites her audience to look back on with fondness; others are viewed through bulletproof glass and outrage.

In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls uses logic to get herself and her family out of situations while weighting out the pros and cons. For example the one time when Jeannette was turning ten and her dad, Rex Walls, asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said “Do you think you could maybe stop drinking”. His first response was, “You must be awfully ashamed of your old man.”, and of course she responded back with “No… It’s just I think mom would be a lot happier. Plus we’d have the extra money.” She asked him, because she was thinking of her dads health, and the families well being. You can tell that she thought long and hard about how she was going to ask her dad, and about why she wanted him to quit.

Author and journalist, Jeannette Walls writes about her life story and upbringing in her memoir The Glass Castle. The book definitely lived up to the high expectations set by others and drew me in further as I kept reading. I wanted to read the book because I heard that is was exceptional from several people including friends and family. As I kept reading I began to learn more about Walls’ story, and I became intrigued to know what was to come. I believe that the author chose to share her story because it shows why she is who she is today. She uses her voice well in order to relate to others in a way that shows that when times become difficult not to lose hope because there can be a pleasant ending.