Essay On The Glass Castle By Jeanette 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.

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.

“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

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 memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, explicates the author’s dysfunctional childhood and how it resulted from poor parenting. Throughout the beginning of the book, Walls continues to be optimistic and grateful for the few objects she owns and what little parent support she receives. This contributes to the tone of how positivity can aid those in coping with problematic events. Although Walls is unable to escape her source of problems, as a child with irresponsible adults, her undying faith in her parents caused her to make injudicious decisions. This contributes to the tone of how false positivity can lead to oblivion.

Michael J. Fox said, “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” This relates to The Glass Castle because even though Jeannette went through difficult times with her family she was still able to care about them. The Glass Castle is a book that was written by Jeannette Walls. It tells about her experiences while she was growing up, and in those experiences she would describe how she felt about what was going on. Most of the situations that she was in was because of her family. The Glass Castle demonstrates that families can learn from each other and grow up close through fights with each other, not understanding each other, and helping each other out.

The story of Jeannette Walls begins one cold March evening when she comes across a homeless woman, which is then revealed to be her mother. It is there that her troubled past comes into light in, “The Glass Castle”. But through her disastrous childhood and dysfunctional family, she manages to turn it around and and by education, expectation, and most of all environment, Jeannette grew from her experiences and came out successful and stronger than ever.

Imagine you’re driving down a road and arrive at a red light. As you glance to your right, you see a woman standing there with a sign that reads, “Without work, anything will help”. Do you stop and give the spare change in your purse? Do you look the other way? Poverty is a difficulty that affects numerous families not only in the United States, but around the world. Jeannette Walls shows in her memoir, The Glass Castle, which describes her hardships as a child, that some poverty-stricken families chose to remain silent, afraid of the embarrassment they feel they’d face, or in denial of their situation. Despite the various drawbacks that weighed down the families hopes of survival, it only lit a fire in Jeannette to become a strong woman who appreciates what she has, knowing it could all disappear in an instant.

Everyone in the universe has different lifestyle and might have their own childhood story. Some have happy childhood, and some have sad one. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is an autobiographical journal about her life and her family from her toddler age to her adult time. The book features her family and her relationship with every single one of her family members. She is especially close to her highly intelligent father with a passion for logic and alcoholic, Rex Walls. It expresses about what she remembers from her childhood time, and how she ends up in New York City with her family. She explains why her parents prefer the lifestyle that they are living in, and how they choose to be homeless. The expression of Jeannette Walls when she talks about her own life story without strong emotion to describe about her parents on how they

“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.

In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, describes her memories growing up with her family. The Walls family is a complex family where the intentions of the parents is not fully comprehensible. For instance, it is difficult to make judgement of the parents as solely bad people. Walls’s parents are faulty in their decisions, but it can be refuted that the parents had good intentions based on what they believed in to be true. The parents were educated, but they refused to follow the rules of common knowledge and perception s of society.

In her memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls composes her main theme targeting the influence of the past on the present, comparing her childhood to her current life situation. Walls childhood was filled with poverty and unstable living conditions which impacted her emotional and motivated her to be successful as an adult. As a child Walls never had a stable home. Her father Rex believed bad men were after him which caused him to relocate and move the whole family frequently. He called it the “skedaddle” and they would leave the house they were in and most of their belongings behind.

One book that I didn’t really like this semester was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I didn’t really enjoy this book in a few different ways, one of them being that it was so raw and that all the events that had happened to her in the book, had actually happened in her real life since the book was about her life. It didn’t really appeal to me because her family had often moved around a lot and she didn’t have much of a stable home. Also in the novel it talked about how a boy who was a few years older than her had claimed that he raped her; rape is already a difficult thing to deal with but for someone to say that they had done that crime to you, then to force you to be their girlfriend (the term being used loosely) and give you presents