Jeanette's Neglect In The Glass Castle

Jeanette was thinking this to herself while in her apartment. She had just seen her mom rooting through trash on the street and had hurried home out of fear. This quote is important because it shows that Jeanette has passion for her parents but is too afraid to address them in a realistic manner. It shows that she doesn’t have extreme care for her parents, being embarrassed by them, and ashamed of them but not doing anything to really help them.

When Dad asks Jeanette for money, it shows that Dad doesn’t know how to handle money. Since Dad can’t be trusted with money, Jeanette has to be the responsible adult in the family.

Though Jeannette gave her all to support her family, she did the same for herself without anyone’s support. She understood what it was meant to be poverty at a very young age and realised that she could not have what others did. While Jeannette didn’t have money, she was smart and resourceful to achieve whatever she could for herself. When Jeannette was young, she had already decided that if she wanted to do something for herself, she was going to have to do it herself. An example of this was when she herself to have buckteeth, and promptly said, “I decided to make my own braces,” and she did (Wall 200). In spite of Jeannette being underprivilaged and with less money, she found ways time and time again to succeed.

Throughout the book, The Glass Castle, Jeanette developed through individual, cultural, and social factors by many negative and positive influences in her lifetime. Before this topic gets addressed, here is the main concept and summary of this bestselling book. This is a very powerful and touching book about a girl, Jeanette, who is the main point of view in the book, and she talks about her life as a kid till she attended college. She talks about all of the tough times, and moving constantly from state to state has affected her and her siblings. She always was looking at the bright side of many people, such as her parents, but as she got older in life, she started to changing her views on many things and people in her life.

Jeannette Walls, Shows in the book The Glass Castle that there are a lot of situations that happen in life where people make countless mistakes, but it is very important to forgive her father and her mother for many mistakes. She has to cope with many obstacles without her parent's help. In the author's memoir, we become attracted with Jeannette constant struggle between protecting her family and the pleasure that her family is based on the same hopes and senseless falsehood with her unbelievable storytelling method. The feelings of forgiveness hold the Walls family together. Jeanette was able to describe her family's childhood, relationships with one another. The children of the Walls family are forced to begin the independent life at an

While Jeanette is preparing to leave for New York and her father, Rex, attempts to talk her out of it by showing her the updated plans for the Glass Castle, Walls, through Jeanette, uses an implied metaphor to show how all her father’s promises are a Glass Castle without the use of like or as. Walls uses this to illuminate how her father’s promises are broken easily like how a Glass Castle can be broken easily as it is made of glass, which is fragile. Walls also highlights how throughout the memoir her father promised to protect her, not only by building her a home like the Glass Castle, but also by protecting her from men who force themselves upon her as seen when the father states, “Anyone who… laid a finger on… Rex Walls's children was going to get their butts kicked,” (Walls, 24), but the father later goes on to allow her to be inappropriately touched by Robbie just to make some money. This shows that the father makes promises he is unable to and often does not want to fulfill throughout the memoir, which leads to Jeanette having to face adversity as her father is not protecting her. As a result of her adversity, Jeanette reaches an epiphany and learns to look out for her own well-being as she understands that her father is no longer willing to do so. She also understands that her father will never build the Glass Castle and that all the promises that her father ever made to her are like the Glass Castle, easily broken. This ultimately to Jeanette developing from a character who depended solely on her father, to one that could make the decision to go to New York without her father’s permission after the 11th grade. Finally, by going to New York, Jeanette is able to provide for her own well-being by working at a job and renting an apartment and departs from the conventional means of wellbeing. Through the use of metaphor, Walls conveys the theme that often for one to persevere against adversity in his or her lives, he or she must learn to go against conventional means of well-being, like family, and find his or her individual means of well-being.

Secondly, self-sufficiency is illustrated through motivation. One afternoon when Jeannette was at home by herself child services came to talk to her about her living conditions and her parents. Jeannette told the man to come back when her parents were home. When Jeannette’s mom came home she told her what happened and that she needed to do something so child services wouldn't take them away, Jeannette’s mom then said, “Jeannette, you're so focused it's scary.”(195) Rosemary says when Jeannette is focused she can get intimidating. Jeannette is motivated by the need to protect her family, which shows her self sufficiency because it's up to her to keep the family together, because she knows her parents are unreliable. Additionally, Rosemary has been known to feel sorry for herself and expresses how she hates her life. When Jeannette sees her mom wallowing she stands there in disgust watching her mother give up on life when she

Jeanette's mother, though she's always trying to have a positive, loving outlook on their life, is a selfish woman. The starvation was getting to her head, at which point she began to hide from the family and indulge herself in what little they have. "She told us we should forgive her the same way we always forgave Dad for his drinking. None of us said a thing. Brian snatched up the chocolate bar and divided it into four pieces. While mom watched, we wolfed them down" (Jeannette 174). This is one of the many moments in the novel where forgiveness is vital in the family. In order to get through their life of willingly living in poverty, they need to have trust in one another, as well as forgive each other for their mistakes. Sometimes times are difficult, and we start to lose sight and control of what's important. In this case, Jeanette's mother, though she insists their life is perfectly fine, is breaking down. She is so deprived of her own needs that she forgot of her own families needs, to the point where she hid herself from them to eat a single candy

As a child, Jeannette doesn’t realize that she’s not actually getting what she should be getting. She thinks this is how she should be living. Jeannette doesn’t understand her parents have been neglecting her all this time. Jeannette first noticed that some things were a lot nicer than what she had when she had to be hospitalized because of her fire accident. She was just so amazed about how neat and organized everything was. For instance, “The hospital was clean and shiny. Everything was

Through The Glass Castle, Jeannette shows the world how an impoverished, neglected girl grows into a successful author and wife. Jeanette, herself, is a living proof of ultimate success showing the world that no matter what situation you come from, ultimate success is completely possible. She starts out with memories from the time when she was as young as three along with the rest of her family, constantly on the move, deserted towns in the middle of the night "Rex Walls ' style” and lived in numerous places, all the way up to her present-day. Throughout her life, Jeanette dealt with poverty, hunger, malnourishment, along with an alcoholic father and an unstable mother. But for Jeanette, the

Jeanette’s father is a man that is extremely smart in science and math, and an amazing storyteller, however he drinks/smokes way too much and can be very abusive. Her mother is a religious and tough woman, who could live with basically any situation and will go through with something until it is done. Jeanette’s tone to her parents, however, is not of happiness, but instead sadness, because of the father’s behaviors, and her mother’s stubbornness to stay with him. The tone towards their actions from Jeanette is dismay, because for almost all of their actions, both her mother and father don’t think about the consequences before they

Jean is a mother of three daughters. Her oldest daughter has a terminal cancer that is to late to be cured so she is unable to work. Jean works as a nurse at an old folks home, making less than a livable wage and supporting eight children. She is apart of a group of nurses who are trying to get more benefits and higher wages. This shows that she is working to better her situation but thats not all she's doing. Once a week she goes to her local church to pray and also lights a candle for Saint Jude who is one of the twelve apostles. All the work that she’s doing is not paying off though.

With just this slight confrontation so many doors opened up between both the girls. Jean in a way hinted at her family life and how she cannot go anywhere else, or she is not comfortable going anywhere else. Also in the same excerpt she mentions how her parents do not care about what she does. As a fourteen-year-old girl that is a very odd thing to say especially being an only child, but her parents are to focused on their own problems to raise and help develop her into a strong young lady.

lives in constant fear of losing everything she had that protects her. After she repents when being caught having a relationship with Melanie she remains working with the people who treated her badly, showing she has a compassionate character. Because she is shown to be so compassionate it makes the reader sympathise with her once she is punished for her sexuality; she has opinions that differ from that of her mother and the church community. These people come across as thoughtless pawns of religion without a mind of their own, while Jeanette contrasts to that. Her progressive attitude is what grants her a more fruitful life once she breaks away from church.

To begin with, Jean grew up in a poor family. He was illiterate and a peasant (Hugo 26). On top of that, both of his parents died when he was a very young boy, leaving him to depend on his older sister to look after him. His mother died of a milk fever and his father was killed by a fall from a tree (Hugo 26). To lose both parents right after another at such a young age is very heart-rending.