Rex Walls Research Paper

Children need a safe and steady place to grow up in. Kids looked up to their parents and aspire to be just like them when they grow up. Rex and Rosemary Wall have different beliefs when it comes to taking care of their children. Although they seem to love each other, Rex and Rosemary, from The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, create chaos and instability in their home with their volatile relationship. Creating an unstable environment making it difficult for the entire family, it always made the children terrified when they fought because it usually ended up Rosemary getting injured physically or mentally, as time passed by Rex began to leave more frequently and not come back for days, making Rosemary and the children without money for food and just worried about Rex in general.

They go back to Philadelphia it appears to be ghost town. No one is anywhere to be seen when. They arrive at the coffee house they see that they’ve been robbed and mother and Eliza where gone. The next day Mattie and grandfather eat breakfast. Then mattie goes to market and finds it empty when she find herself being assaulted by a older woman she rushes home and doesn’t tell grandfather. She goes to sleep and wakes to two men breaking in one man starts messing with Grandfather sword and almost hits Mattie she screams and tries to run but one man catches her. He tries getting information out of her. but grandfather finds them he tries to shoot him but gets away he then starts punching Grandfather he closes his eyes them Mattie stabs the man in the shoulder he screamed in pain and finally ran

     Austin ends up leaving to go back to live with his mother and father. This breaks both of their hearts, although Austin is happy to go back home. Macey and Austin find out that it wasn’t either one of their grandparents who started the fire. Yet, they also learn that their grandparents weren’t the first to jump in and help the black teacher whose home had just burnt

They Pack up their things into backpacks and hop onto a freight train to chicago. When in chicago the boys meet a trucker named Sharon who drives them all the way to wyoming. Than they hid in the bottom luggage department of a bus on their way to the Tetons. When They reach the Tetons they make a little camp by a small secluded lake. An scary thing that happens is a Black Bear attacks their camp for the berries they picked. Then they get caught by a Forest Ranger and run into the woods. Where they meet Skeet. Skeet got his arm stuck under a boulder and the boys freed him. In return he showed them how to survive in the wilderness. He took them to the ranger station because he heard their mom was there looking for them. At the ranger station Bull is waiting for the boys so they don’t say anything and he doesn’t go to jail. The boys beat up Bull and escape to the cliff where their father lives. Bull and their father get in a fight and Abe (their father) wins. And it ends with them Going to sleep that night with their father that they

William joins the military and while he’s gone Margaret invites William’s mother Mrs. Anglin and brother Marshall to her parents’ house for dinner, which doesn’t go well because Mr. and Mrs. Ryder refuse to sign in an even more awkward silence. William comes back injured but not crippled and they live with her parents until he’s accepted into college. Margaret’s parents are sad to see her go but as soon as they can they go see her and it was unannounced. Margaret’s parents are very upset to see the place where she’s living and go to sign how upset they are that William hasn’t provided better for their daughter. Her parents never visit her again. The next time Margaret sees her parents is when she’s very pregnant to let them know that they’ll be grandparents. Lastly William and Margaret move into better housing where they will raise their child till William graduates from college. Margaret and William invite everyone to their baby shower after the birth of their son and her parents show up after everyone has gone. Margaret is upstairs with her son and William answers the door and her parents surprise her. When they see each other all the turmoil between them is gone and they enjoy each other’s company. The movie ends with Janice’s retirement party where Abel, Margaret, William and their son go and Janice’s signs a speech that Margaret

Rex is an electrician and engineer, and often spends his spare time inventing contraptions he hopes will make his family rich. He is the type of person to be an independent thinker. He  seems to always be paranoid of the U.S government and sees conspiracies in almost any organized system within miles away.

Phoenix, Arizona was their next destination. Jeanette’s original thought of living with their grandma again were cast aside as Mary reveals that she passed away during their stay at Battle mountain. Upon arrival the family stays in a fairly large house that was left in Grandma Smith’s will for Mary. Things were positive at first as the usually are, but slowly took a wrong turn as they usually do. Jeanette attends a new school where she is bullied for her intelligence, however this conflict soon ends when her brother Brian steps in and stands up for her. Rex got another job and supplied for the family as usual. Just as things were getting nice, Christmas day comes. This time the kids actually had real gifts, they each got a bike as well as small gifts they bought each other. Everything is looking up until their father got intoxicated and accidently burned their presents after opening up his, and using the lighter inside of it. Their father loses yet another job, and things tumble downwards. From people breaking into their house, touching the children, and just sleeping in the house. The big moment comes when

Also Rex and Rosemary didn’t consider the needs of their children when they decided to leave the doors and windows open at night, which led to Jeannette’s dangerous encounter with a pervert. Rex and Rosemary also can’t provide their children with food every night because rex cannot keep a steady job which leads the kids to scavenge. ‘’ If we asked mom about food- In a casual way, because we didn’t want to cause any trouble- she’d simply shrug and say she couldn’t make something out of nothing’’(Walls 68). Jeannette begins to steal food from her classmates, while Brian was scavenging too. This is another example of Rex and Rosemary not caring about their children’s needs. ‘’The next day Lori, Brian, and I were sitting at one of the spool tables in the depot playing five-card draw and keeping an eye on Maureen while mom and dad spent some downtime at the owl club’’( Walls 87). Although Lori is the oldest, she should not obtain the responsibility to babysit her younger sibling’s while her parents fulfill their own needs. Rex and Rosemary neglected the children’s safety and Maureen (the youngest) was put into danger when a gun was involved when Billy

Thomas Davis is entering his 11th season with the Carolina Panthers and he has been a great leader and even better player! He is one of the best linebackers in the NFL today and an inspiration for every football player that goes through any adversity Davis has torn his ACL three times and come back better than ever each and every time. Here's what I mean last season he had 100 tackles and two forced fumbles and in his career he has 730 tackles 13 forced fumbles and six interceptions! Amazing what he's been able to do on the football field and now with Luke Kuechly the Carolina Panthers have the best linebacker duo in the NFL and I don't think it's close. He is definitely the veteran leader that helped lead this defense for years and I'm glad

Rex seems like a father that’s trying to impress his children with his fictitious tales, absorbing their curiosities while veiling the darkness of his failure as a dad and his alcoholism. And eventually, like a bad magician, his deceit slowly becomes more and more transparent as his children grow and begin to

California, Nevada, Arizona, West Virginia, and New York were key places the Walls family visited. Although all were important, one extremely important setting the memoir took place in was in West Virginia. Jeannette’s grandmother Erma, Rex’s mother, lived in Welch, WV. They all lived in a very small house together. The unfortunately unforgettable incident of Jeannette's brother, Brian, being sexually abused by Erma took place there. Lori, the eldest sibling, mentioned that “You’d be weird, too, if Erma was your mom.” All the siblings saw Erma as strange, and since their father is out of the ordinary, Lori connects it to being the way that he was raised. Jeannette and her siblings were disgusted by what their grandmother had done to Brian. The children later become suspicious that the same thing happened to their father because of the way he reacted when he found out. “Dad wheeled around and gave Lori such a cold, angry look that I thought he might wallop her. "She was my mother, for God's sake," he said.” Erma did a horrible thing, but Rex still defended her. Deep down, Rex knows what happened was wrong. This makes the kids think because Erma could have possibly guilted Rex into defending her, especially if he were at one point in the same situation his son was. Another important setting was the setting of New York City. Both Jeannette and her eldest sister Lori moved to New York City. Lori moved first, shortly followed by

Living in a falling apart house, the family rarely has electricity and they have no running water or heat. Struck by a hard reality, the older children realize the only way to achieve a stable life is to move away from their parents. They begin saving as much money as they can until eventually the oldest child, Lori, moves to New York City. She finds a job and the children try to save more money so they can all eventually move to the city. Ultimately, all of the kids are together again in New York City and life is good.

There are many African American public figures, who have inspired the hearts and minds of eager Black youth. These individuals have instilled within the community a sense of purpose and promise which has carried over into following generations. Some of these persons are household names and familiar pop culture icons. Many, however, are the unsung heroes who have continued to work in the shadows, while bringing others into the light of hope. One such individual, Dr. Calvin Williams, began his journey on the concrete slabs and in the dilapidated houses of New Orleans, Louisiana's Lower Ninth Ward.

To his family, Rex Walls was an excitable, caring, and intelligent man yet, he could also be dangerous, abusive, and ignorant. Rex Walls was an alcoholic and his family often suffered because of his erratic and selfish behavior. Beginning at a very young age, Rex Walls’s reckless actions left his children emotionally traumatized. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls reveals multiple incidents that show how Rex Walls’s drunken actions strained and damaged their relationship as a family. Due to Rex Walls’s alcoholism the children were far too often left feeling disappointed by the man they adored, constantly having to cope with the aftermath of his drunken stupor, and were unable to live normal lives, repeatedly being put in compromising situations, and having to conceal their displeasure.

Days passed and nobody new why the new family was there, it got everyone worried and confused. All they knew about this family was that they were the Chase family and the parents had a daughter named Victoria.