Adult Interview

Growing up Gay I remember on my first day of preschool, my mom told me, “Abby, don’t tell your teachers about your family.” Sitting in my car seat, at the age of 4, I was starting to become overwhelmed with confusion. This confusion bubbled up inside me for years. I had so many questions that I wanted to ask my moms, but I did not have the courage or the strength to ask. Then I grew up. My perspective on the world changed, and I realized that my parents were seen as a calamity to society. That was my perspective though. I wondered what my mom’s was. How did she grow up in a world that only saw her as a flaw in the system? So I asked. Beth Shaffer’s perspective on her past, the present, and the future is an astonishing story.

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

My international background has shaped who I am today because of the influence of my Chinese immigrant parents. My parents never had an easy life. My parents, who lived in poverty in China, immigrated to the United States hoping for a better life and to pursue the American Dream. They

As my parents grew further apart, my siblings and I grew closer together. Having grown up in a rural community, my father was greatly supported emotionally, as our family and friends could see how the pressures of being the sole-provider weighed on him.

Describe Jeannette’s childhood, specifically her socialization or the process by which she acquired family values, information about social expectations, and survival strategies.

Usually in society parents are to be blamed for failing to raise their children in the right way. It is very easy for the society to criticize parents when they mistreat their child or not take care of his/her needs and wants. It is easy for a parent to get judged in society comparing to a child because parents are role models for children’s. Even when a child has been mistreated by her/his parent, it is easy for the child to forgive their parents. The reason behind that situation would be a parent’s unconditional love that a child sees, despite what he/she has been through. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, she portraits a situation like that where the character spends her childhood memories with her father. Even though Jeannette’s father Rex Walls was an irresponsible father and failed to protect his children, Jeannette still loved her father dearly.

Maya Hildebrand AP Lit Period 5 09/09/15 Summer Assignment Jeannette walls is the posterchild of outward social conformity. Born into a family ill-equipped to raise children, Walls was forced to find strength within herself in order to survive the chaos that her childhood entailed. Walls begins her memoir with her first memory at the

Jeannette’s parents tried to embrace in their children, to live life to its extent. As you can imagine, the parents lived mostly on the wild side. Rose Mary, a drug addicts who worries about herself constantly. She endlessly searches through garbage and panhandles for money, usually forgetting everything that is occurring at the exact moment. If

1. Fire is a major theme in The Glass Castle. Jeannette becomes very fascinated by fire which continues throughout the novel. The first you hear of fire is when Jeannette is burned while cooking hotdogs at the age of three. Though she suffers extreme injuries, Jeannette becomes extremely fascinated by fire.

In life, everyone is presented with challenges. How we face and overcome these challenges are what make people who they are. In the novel, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, the main character, Jeannette, experiences many adversities. The amount of obstacles she faced at such a young age could

In the novel, Jeannette makes the most out of her unfortunate lifestyle. When Jeannette was young, Rex said that Blythe was too hot, so they hit the road again. Her parents put Jeannette in the back of a U-Haul and drove across the desert. The kids weren’t allowed to talk on the way there,

  Hardships are terrible, but they are a normal part of everybody’s life. No matter the hardship, anybody can recover. In her memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls tells a true story of her unconventional childhood. She journeys the readers through her nomadic and dysfunctional family lifestyle. Her parents—the artistic, inattentive

Jeannette’s personality shows the most with her independence and maturity at such a young age. An early example of this is when she tried to cook a hot dog on the stove and accidently burned herself when she was only three years old. As Jeannette ages, she begins to see the world in brand new perspectives because of her experiences with different lifestyles and environments, such as living in the desert with hot temperatures, to living in the poorest neighborhood of Welch, to finally living in the ever-moving city life of New York City.

November 9th, 1996, my brother first entered this world cold, scared, and naked; then into the warm arms of my beloved 19-year-old mother as my 17-year-old father stood beside him. According to statistics, 8 out of 10 teenage fathers do not marry the teenage mother of their child; most couples don’t stay together at all. But here my brother is today 18-years later with my mother and my father still happily married with 3 kids. My parents both sacrificed a lot for my brother, my sister and myself, which included moving to a new state at a young age leaving everything they knew behind, going to night school, and doing countless hours of hard work. They made sure we never had to work for anything; they gave us everything we needed, wanted, and

I was steadily put into the hospital daycare at three years old while Toysha would be visiting my father, but at times he would end up being too sick for me to come visit, so my mother would take me to my grandmothers and she would have to take care of me. Eventually, Christopher’s cancer started to metastasize, and together my mother and father decided to make the decision to have me go live with my grandmother for the better. Christopher did not want me to be around to see him in that condition and my mother thought I would have a better way of living if I was not with them. The love that they had for each other allowed them to make rational decisions and sacrifices for the better of my life and