Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

In this passage from The Glass Castle the Wall’s family moves into a dinky abused house on 93 Little Hobart St. in Welsh after being kicked out of grandma Erma’s house. The family tries to make the most of the house out of what little they have. The author of this passage wants the reader to understand that you must learn how to make the most out of what little you have either as an individual or as a family in order to prosper. To support this understanding the author uses the writing strategy of point of view to convey this meaning.

People often fall into some sticky situations, but how they deal with them is the thing that matters most. In The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, she takes the readers through her life, starting at her earliest memory as a three-year-old, constantly living in a state of homelessness. Throughout the story, Walls experiences countless situations from her father being an alcoholic, to everyday school bullies. She uses a series of coping mechanisms to deal with, and sometimes terminate these issues. In fact, everyone of her siblings and parents uses various coping methods for these same situations. These methods may not always be the most effective, but people, including the Walls family, nevertheless use them to get by on their

“Don’t call me Grandma. Name’s Erma.” (Walls, 131). This is the first thing Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, hears out of her grandmother Erma’s mouth when they go to stay at her home in Welch, West Virginia. The Walls family has come across hard times and they need somewhere to live. “She don't like it none ‘cause it makes her sound old.” This was the response of Grandpa Ted, Erma’s husband, a more even tempered and gentle man. Does this make Erma an upper social class woman concerned of appearing less beautiful? Or a hardworking woman torn down by poverty who doesn’t want to feel less able than she was when she was younger.

Have you ever heard of a family nowadays that are constantly on the move, frequently traveling throughout our country, stopping to live in one place for a couple months, then leaving for another place for a similar amount of time and doing that constantly? The Walls are a family that does do that. In the entertaining book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, a young girl named Jeannette Walls learns how to become successful in life through constantly being on the move. She lived with her with her parents and her siblings. Her parents, Rex and Rose Mary would be in a huge fight one minute, then would be hugging each other the next, which made it hard for the kids to grow up. Throughout Jeannette’s unusual childhood, she learned to have acceptance

Resilience is about being independent, standing on your own two feet or taking back the power.

A trauma narrative is a narrative that describes an experience or experiences that cause someone to be destressed and cannot be incorporated into their memory easily. Throughout her own traumatic narrative, Jeannette Wall’s describes different aspects of her everyday life that showcase various levels of significance. She is able to show how certain life events impact her plans for escaping her current socioeconomic status and her plans for the future. The text is also able to tell us about trauma, poverty, ourselves, and our society. Furthermore, the text demonstrates the impact that trauma and poverty can have and how they can have lasting effects. These concepts help us to think about our own life experiences and situations and they also show us how to be analytical about our society. Lastly, this narrative is able to reveal to us the different aspects of a traumatic childhood and how important and impactful this type of upbringing can be. Jeannette Walls uses her own traumatic autobiography to show that despite her adverse upbringing in poverty and passive and unattached parenting she was able to become successful. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, shows the benefits and the value that can come from having a traumatic narrative. This is significant because it shows that an experience can shape a person, but a person can also shape the experience.

The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls about her life and family. Throughout the book, were many episodes where sometimes rules were lacking and episodes where rules were needed during the time when Jeannette Walls was growing up. This strikes up the question, “which is more important to children: freedom or security?” In my opinion based on what I have read, I believe rules would be more important than, freedom.

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls the most exemplified parenting style shown by Rex and Rose Mary is Permissive Parenting. The Walls parents have few demands, they don’t discipline their children, and they interact with the kids as if they were friends.

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle is an important symbol to Jeannette and the rest of the Walls family. The Glass Castle represents hope to the children at a young age. Jeanette's dad loved telling stories to her when she was little “about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle” (Walls 25). In this case, the Glass Castle represents hope and luxury. The Walls are hoping for a life that is good and a luxurious bright future. Unfortunately, the family " 'never did build that Glass Castle"' (Walls 279). The Glass Castle represents something else at this point in the book, an unacheivable dream. Glass has the ability to shatter, this proves that Jeannette's father wanted something unattainable

I read The Glass Castle a memoir by Jeannette Walls during my Junior year in high school. It easily became my favorite book. Walls was able to effectively communicate to her reader. She convinced me of something important: the value of having a strong family bond. Walls altered my perspective of the value of family and showed me what it took to a more compassionate person.

Many would argue that Yourself and the mindset you have in life most affects the kind of person you become because, If you treat yourself poorly and look at everything negative while you're young you will not be successful later in life. However, the short story The Glass Castle by, Jeannette Walls reveals that your environment and the way you grow up affects the kind of person you become because People that grow up in bad environments can still be successful. One reason the short story The Glass Castle by, Jeannette Walls reveals that Yourself and the mindset you have in life most affects the kind of person you become is when Jeannette said, “I figured you didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who

Jeannette Walls tells a very interesting story in The Glass Castle; few people get the chance to experience such a unique childhood. Jeannette’s father and mother are unlike traditional parents. Her father puts his children in harm’s way and justifies it by claiming that it’s a learning experience and her mother fails to provide comfort because she is preoccupied over her own goals. As an innocent child, Jeannette initially does not mind living such a childhood. In fact she admires her parents, especially her father, despite his frequent drunken outbursts. However, as Jeannette ages, she finds herself disapproving of her father’s way of

There are many ways to cope with events that happen in life, some are positive and some are negative. In The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette tells her story of her unconventional family and how she copes with events that occur in her life. The story starts when she is a young child and how her family is not homeless, they are free spirits and their outlook on life is that everything is an adventure. However, as time progresses and she gets older, she starts to see how this is not how she wants to live her life and that she wants more for herself. Along the way the Walls family comes in contact with different situations that could be harmful to them and how they cope with such situations. The way people cope with things varies from being negative to positive; how people cope with things really shapes their lives in the long run.

The operational definition of “educational paradigm” is an environment which not only educates on academic subjects, but one which has emotional and social intelligence which may serve as an intervention to mitigate damages of the qualia of Gold Star Children (America’s war orphans) and Silver Star Children (who become caregivers to Wounded Warrior parent(s). The operational definition of Resilience is a “psychological construct” that serves to increase the likelihood of a positive result of success regardless of the adversity one experiences. (The Academic Resilience Scale (ARS-30- see this document for citing purposes). ME -if we take it a step further, we can increase the degree of RES to include flourishing and ultimately, thriving.

One of the most important traits for my education and my life is resilience. The ability to make a mistake and come back from it quickly. This is one of the most important and basic skills I have learned in life. It however is not a skill everyone has learned, some people are adults and still aren’t resilient, tossing their life away over menial things. In today'sthis day inand age this this is more clear than ever, people can’t take insults, can’t take small infractions on their beliefs, and most of all aren’t ready for the reality of life.