How Does Life Change Jeanette Walls Life

“I’m fine. You’re the one who needs help. Your Values are all confused.” (pg. 5)

One of the earliest memories she had that describes the way she grew up, was getting burns all over her body after trying to roast hot dogs over a fire, and getting sent to the hospital for it. Freedom was present in the family, discussing how the parents and children would go out and explore around in the middle of the night, look at the stars, and take drives or walks whenever they felt like it. Despite this, her family lived a very poor and unconventional childhood, which included events like her dad claiming the FBI was after them, living in a house with no sewer and fire system, or scraping maggots off of old food and still eating it. If they had a bloody cut from falling on the ground, normal parents would wrap them up in a bandage and tell them to stay home, but the Walls’s would wrap up the wound, and send them back outside to play again, which perfectly describes the philosophy her parents raised them up in. Rex promised his children he would build The Glass Castle if he struck it rich in the gold mine, which would be a building completely made out of glass and be ran on solar panels. Some of the most memorable memories included a point where a neighbor almost raped Jeanette and the time child services came and tried to take them away. Eventually, Jeanette along with her oldest sister, Lori, started working and

Bean blatantly tells her mother that she is sick of running away from her problems and moving every time something goes wrong. She disagrees with Charlotte’s way of dealing with difficult situations which seems to be: when the goings gets tough pack your bags and get going. Bean represents Jeanette Walls’ desire to have had a stable family life as a child. Like Bean and Liz, she too had a neglecting mother who was also poor and traveled a ton. Jeanette Walls gives her audience an inside scoop of her dysfunctional childhood in “The Glass Castle” where she elaborates on her parents’ rashness in raising their children. “In it, she describes a hardscrabble childhood, during which her poverty-stricken parents evaded creditors by

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 age of three. She describes standing above the stove and watching herself catch on fire. Later when she is at the hospital her father comes in to do the "skedaddle" in order to avoid paying hospital fees. This is symbolic of the type of upbringing Walls endured. As a kid, Jeannette was daring and venturesome. Her impulsivity was fueled by her free spirited mother, Rose Walls, and her independant father, Rex Walls.

Firstly, Every hardship and obstacles she endured throughout her childhood helped Jeannette to become a successful adult.Jeannette’s parent were very unpredictable, her mother was self absorbed in her hobbies, and her father was an interminable alcoholic. Even though her parent neglected and gave less attention to Jeannette,

To begin, Jeannette Walls uses setting to develop the theme of the story. Setting is where and when the story takes place. For example, on page 154, it says “Are we ever going home?” I asked Dad one day. “Home?” “Phoenix.” This is own home now.” This quote is explaining how Jeannette finally found a place she could call home. She like living a normal childhood in the big house at Phoenix, but when her dad told them they were never going back to live in Phoenix, she lost all her faith to exactly have a real home where she can be herself and live how she wants to live.

One of the multiple problems Jeannette faced as a child was her irresponsible mother. When most kids dream of their future, they decide what they want to be. However, Jeanette decided what she did not want to be, “I

All around the world, society pushes people to become who they are. Whether it is a trend or a way of life, those people get to choose how they want respond to society. This develops the person's traits and allows other people to understand why they act the way they do. With character development comes maturity, realization and a path away from society’s norms. The same idea is shown throughout the books The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Jeannette Walls believes society’s influence is more helpful to character development because it allows the characters to form around this idea of society and decide how they want to

A reason she became the woman she is today is because of her alcoholic father passing down his trait of intelligence. According to the novel, it states, “‘Those braces are a goddamn feat of engineering genius,’ he said. ‘You take after your old man’” (Walls 202). When her father was sober, he was an amazing father figure who taught his kids many skills. When Jeanette was watching her father invent creations and teach her difficult subjects like math, it had a large impact on her and her intelligence in the future.

Jeanette Walls tells her story about her hard life while growing up with a dysfunctional family played by Brie Larson. The movie shows many instances of how her parents neglected their children, but in my opinion the movie didn’t do those instances

Billy Deel was three years older than Jeanette and was tall and skinny with blue eyes. He had a lopsided head and always moved around like he was itchy. He smoked cigarettes. Overall, he was a dirty, mischievous, boy with inappropriate behavior. He lived with his dad in a house made of tar paper ad corrugated tin, down the tracks from Jeanette’s house. It is unknown if his mom died or had ran off. He was known as “the devil with a crew cut” as he would skin cats and dogs. Billy was very poor and there was nearly nothing in his house beside mattresses. It was messy and dark inside his home and there weren't any furniture or tables.

Some kids throw temper tantrums or whine and complain all of the time, but Jeanette, hasn’t had much. SHe never got nice toys for christmas, she went days without food, and she wore the same clothes all of the time. However, JEanette lived the most of everyday. She was always the optimist, always the one to have the power of positive thinking. Even though she didn’t have much at all, she still loved, and enjoyed life mostly everyday. Jeanette had to learn how to mature right away, which most kids don’t have to. She was living, her growing up life was rough, but she kept thinking positive and kept going, and believing in her

Throughout the book the author has always displayed that Jeanette and Rex Walls have a special bond compared the rest of those in the family. Rex has always made Jeanette feel special and entertained her ideas and imaginations and never made her feel unintelligent or unworthy and in return Jeanette gave him her unwavering faith. In this excerpt the author sheds some light on the beginning of this symbiotic relationship. At this point in Jeanette’s life the Walls are dirt poor. With no money, Rex makes that fact feel less significant by giving his children something that “rich city folks” as he puts them could never have. The importance of this is that throughout Jeanette’s childhood, no matter how much they were struggling, Rex has always

There are a lot of different characters in the book with different perspectives and opinions but there are some characters that change or evolve the way that they do because they have to. I think one of the characters the surely changed was Stacey Logan because as the story continues he becomes more of an adult, and he is becoming more thoughtful in the situations he is in. I also think the Stacey is becoming more serious on what he decides to do in certain events in the story, because if he is reckless in making decisions, he might endanger his family or the family others. This is a very good change for Stacey Logan because he will become a better role model for his siblings. I think the event that triggered the change was that when they sabotaged

With Joy, she sees seven of the worst years of her life destroyed, she won’t get to have fun at college on her twenty-first birthday, she won’t marry someone and then have kids. Unlike Jack who loved Room, he thought it was the best place ever, just him and Ma, he won’t feel like he missed out on anything. The other character that sparked my curiosity was Old