Mary Walls Character Analysis

Rose Mary Walls is far from being a caring mother or a positive role model to her children. She is unable to provide the basic necessities required for survival and even resorts to stealing what little resources the family has for herself; “I wondered if she had been looking forward to

Rose Mary Walls acts as a person who focuses on herself only. In the novel, she loses or quits her jobs to peruse a career as an artist. In doing this, the family is not making money. Due to her actions, Rose Mary Walls is adding to the poverty of the Walls family. At times, she acts more like a child then a mother. You catch Mrs. Walls throwing tantrums, skipping work, etc.

Mary Mallon was a woman of Irish descent who came to the United States as an immigrant to start a new life in 1886. She worked as a cook in a house where wealthy families came to celebrate their vacation. She was a healthy carrier of typhoid and made the guests sick and they died because of her. Although science had not been developed enough yet and she was tried unfairly it did not make her only a victim. Mary Mallon transformed from victim to villain. When she decided not to report to the police and return to cooking.

In life you can become an adult at anytime. The thing is knowing when you are ready to become a parent because being a parent is a challenge and not many can take it. Having a child is a huge responsibility, and therefore Rex and Rose Mary Walls are bad parents because Rex constantly gets drunk, and both parents are unfit to support their children economically.

Author Jeanette Walls is an example of someone who has preserved and made something of herself despite the fact that she has a less-than-normal childhood. Her parents Rose Mary and Rex Walls struggled at time to parent efficiently, as shown in Jeannette Walls’ memoir of her childhood The Glass Castle. In the recalling of her unique and sometimes disturbing childhood, Walls paints a picture of inadequate parenting, dangerous techniques used on her siblings and herself, and events that may have inflicted permanent damage on the Walls children. Not only Jeannette, but her other siblings Brian, Lori, and Maureen Walls were also negatively affected by the way they were raised and the things that happened to them under their parent’s watch. Rose

“Everything is not what it seems,” while this lyric may seem trite, it holds great truth. People, places, activities, each can be viewed in more than one way depending on the circumstances. From these viewpoints spring complexities and mystery in the shape of differing facades.

It is a well known fact that experiencing war changes people; there is an innocence that is forever lost. In Tim O’Brian’s, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, Mary Anne Bell is an unusual example of the innocence that is lost in war because unlike the rest of the soldiers, she is a woman. Mary Anne’s transformation from innocent “sweetheart” to fierce warrior left readers with mixed emotions because although Mary Anne felt at peace with her transformation, she was also disconnected from reality.

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

Readers are first introduced to the character of Rose Mary Walls in the beginning of the memoir and over the course of book come to understand her personality and her struggle due to a possible mental illness. Jeannette states, “Sometimes, things just got to her. She retreated to her sofa bed and stayed there for days on end, crying and occasionally throwing things at us. She could have been a famous artist by now, she yelled, if she hadn’t had children… The next day, if the mood had passed, she’d be painting and humming away as if nothing had happened” (Walls 186-87). It becomes apparent that Rose Mary is suffering from depression. On multiple occasions, she is unmotivated to leave her bed and fulfill her daily routine, leaving her children to make up for her absences. These bouts of depression presumably occurred all of her life and have prevented her from developing into a mature adult, thus keeping her from fully nurturing her

Jeannette Walls uses imagery to give the reader a clear insight to what she is think and what is going on in her mind. An example of this would be when she said, “Until then, when I thought of writers, what first came to mind was Mom, hunched over her typewriter, clattering away on her novels and plays and philosophies of life and occasionally receiving a personalized rejection letter. (204) In seventh grade Jeannette is the first person her age to work for the school newspaper, The Maroon Wave and this depicts the imagery in her head. She uses her own experiences with her family to influence and inspire her writing making her a great writer. The imagery in this book takes the reader to another level with understanding how the author truly sees the world.

Peace and conflict have always been controversial and simplistic factors in the world. There is belief that a balance is present and that there is a same amount of calmness and distress in a person’s life. The Walls family lived a nomadic lifestyle and always moved when they could no longer pay bills or got in trouble with the law. Conflict always followed the family wherever they went; this caused Jeannette and her siblings to seek stability and peace, progressively as they got older in age.

I am writing this statement regarding Elizabeth Wall. Elizabeth was a co-worker of mine at the Grand Rapids Ellington Academy of Arts and Technology during the 2015-2016 school year. While there Elizabeth was the Middle and High School Special Education Teacher. She was let go during the summer of 2016 when her job was eliminated and combined to became a k-12 Special Education position. I found working with her to be incredibly successful for the students that we shared. This year many of her previous students wish that she was still working with us. Working with an urban population has its difficulties. With Elizabeth’s help we were able to find a homeless student a place to live and find help for another that was being abused in the home

Rose Mary and Rex Walls were a unique set of parents. Some tend to lean more into a permissive lifestyle that they lived. The Mother clearly did not care what her children did. Even though they were mature young kids, they still should have saved rules. The mother believed that children should not feel burdened which is why she never set any rules and acted as a friend. This evidence states that their mother did not care about their own personal growth and care, much like an irresponsible mother would act. Rex and Rose Mary were also les interested in their child's safety, again, showing little care. In the previous page, you can read that there was an intruder in the Walls' home due to the door being opened for ventilation. Their excuse for

After years of schooling in America, a year of practical training for a new career, the rush for a job begins for many immigrants in the United States. For some to stay within U.S. borders they must obtain a green card, by either getting a family sponsorships, marrying a U.S. citizen, entering the diversity visa lottery, or getting a job and applying for an employment sponsorship.

The strongest incident which made me feel angry is the fact that the mom more self-centered and compassionate about her rather than providing sufficient care and nutrition for her children. Typically, a mother takes care of her children by sacrificing her comfort and dreams. As a mother, her basic responsibility is to provide three basic things, the food shelter and protection. However, In the case of Mrs. Walls, she failed to provide all these three to her kids. She spends money on her self-care and desires leaving her children to starve. For example, in the Welch section of the book, its states that Jeannette’s Mother hides a chocolate bar from her children and plans to enjoys it all by herself. Later her children discover some of the chocolate bar, realizing that the mother didn’t offer any.