The Castle Essay

The memoir entitled The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls is a story of the eventful life Jeannette endured growing up with her three siblings and her parents. Jeannette lived a tough life, she was constantly moving, never had nice clothes to wear, and had to grow up faster than most children. The reason for the constant struggles in Jeannette’s life led back to her parents. Her father Rex Walls was outrageous, always making spur of the moment decisions which had taken a toll on the family as a whole. He was a severe alcoholic who made way too many promises he knew he couldn’t keep. Throughout the novel, the idea of the “Glass Castle” appears quite often. The Glass Castle is

The Middle Ages is a time period that took place between 500’s and 1400’s In Western Europe. This was a time of feudalism, sickness, death, poverty, war, and faith. In this time people had a government called feudalism which was a political, economic, and social system in which nobles were granted the use of land that legally belonged to the king as payment for their military, their loyalty and protection. There was also a manor which had a manor house, a church, a village, and farm land. In medieval times people went through hard time and many were unsafe there were many deaths and diseases which at the time a disease basically meant death. There are many names you could call the Middle Ages but the two best that describe this time period

Poverty is a main part of life for many people in the world, more importantly the United States. Jeanette Walls shows how big of a problem poverty is in her memoir “The Glass Castle”, with her stories of how she grew up and her family’s struggles. How her family was treated along with what the people living around them found important clearly shows their economical class. The problem of food scarcity, or not having the bare necessities are some of poverty’s main problems. In “The Glass Castle”, the issues of poverty are displayed through not having the basic necessities, not being able to provide for children, and how there is not always enough food to feed everyone in the family.

How many times have you heard this quote, “don’t judge a book by its cover?” I am sure that you probably heard the quote way too many times, even I lost track in counting. But yet, it still doesn’t stop people from judging the book’s cover. So therefore, to say that when people talk about it, it becomes a bit hypocritical when they are the ones who are judging. For instance, many people were judging the book, The Glass Castle. The book was published in March 2005. The reason why the book is being judged is because the book is under the challenged/banned list. The book has a lot of offensive language, sexually explicit content, alcohol, and abuse. The author, Jeannette Walls, is also the main character in the story.

In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette’s life is one that may seem hard to relate to, but it’s actually not that much different than mine. Thanks to today’s society, the constant need to “fit in” molds more people’s personalities and looks than them actually wanting to be themselves. If I don’t dress a certain way, I’m not beautiful. If my personality is different and unique, I’m weird. If I care about my grades and strive for success, I’m a nerd.

"If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim" (66), Jeannette Walls' father told her before throwing her into the middle of the swimming hole again. She thrashed and flailed, sputtering water. When he held out his hands, Jeannette kicked, trying to get away. She knew he would just throw her back into the water again. She kicked and pushed water out of her way to propel herself out of his grasp. This was how young Jeannette learned to swim. She took this lesson and swam through the poverty, hunger, abuse, molestation, and mistreatment that riddled her life. In time, she swam all the way to the top of the food chain, becoming a gossip columnist contributing to many notable magazines such as Esquire and USA Today. In 2005, she published her memoir, The Glass Castle, which documented the joys and struggles of her childhood.

[Imagine having irresponsible parents that are constantly moving around the country] That is what Jeannette Walls went through and she tells her story in The Glass Castle. She is abused by her grandparents and is abandoned by her parents. Jeannette and her siblings eventually end up moving to New York City for a new life. *Hardships bring families together by teaching them to help each other out.*

The Glass Castle was a memoir of Jeannette Walls life. Her memoir as well as her autobiography, gave a new perspective to her life that showed how she become the person she is and the most important moments in her life that changed her. The book is in first-person view, which showed a lot of what she went though. Though the book is only in her view it does give an inside on the lives of the other character. But, it doesn’t show what is really going on with them. For example, Jeannette’s father, struggled with alcoholism though she always has a remarkable view on him. There had been certain things in the book that show that his life was struggle. Such as on page 43 when Jeannette’s mom jumped out of the moving car and ran into the darkness.

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rose Mary is the mother of four kids. Rose Mary has always been full of adventure and having a good time.

In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette walls, the author, was most influenced by her time in Battle mountain, as indicated by how she describes the memories there. She learned a lot of life lessons there and how her family loved her and would do anything for her. How her parents would try and provide for her even when they didn't like their jobs. Then again how her family would stick up for her and the hardships they went through when they lived there.

The 1997 comedy film, ‘The Castle’, directed by Rob Sitch, is a classic Australian film which pits the underdog individual against a large corporation. The low-budget film follows the fight of tight-knit working class family, the Kerrigans, who face the forced acquisition of their modest home by a government organisation. It can be clearly seen that the director has positioned audiences to see the Kerrigans as praiseworthy characters. This is shown through the narrative elements, stylistic features, and constructedness of the plot.

The short story “The Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin has a complex central theme that is cleverly hinted throughout the story. The central theme is not simply “Good versus Evil” but more of a, who is good and who is evil? The central Idea is That Sedgewick Bell is the protagonist and Mr. Hundert is the antagonist. In the beginning of the book Mr. Hundert has a very productive and obedient class.

J. M. Barrie expressed that “A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night”. The unknown is a terrifying notion, as many people are afraid of what they cannot explain. There are many haunted locations in Scotland where the Shakespearean play Macbeth takes place, and many of which are considered the most haunted places on earth. Several of these places are castles that were once lived in, and had terrible events unfold within their walls. Such as murderous deeds and betrayal, much like the play when Macbeth kills his king and his best friend to secure the crown.

I walk into the living room and my mom and dad are watching this new movie that just came out called The Forbidden Kingdom. It’s a cheesy kung fu movie in which Jackie Chan is on a quest to save a kung fu monkey. Along the way he meets Shia Labeouf and teaches him kung fu to help save the monkey. As the two begin to get close to the monkey’s prison the two come across a group of bandits, and Jackie receives a fatal injury. The only way to save him is by stealing the potion of immortality, which belongs to the monkey’s prison guard. There is an epic fight scene and both Jackie and the monkey are saved. Awesome.

The Medieval Ages that descended upon the Europeans following the deconstruction and devolution of the formerly grand institutions of the Roman Empire left a world darkened to the eyes of history. The world lost touch with simple concepts to a modern history student of writing, economy, culture, and government—the mainstay of that which we cannot see ourselves without—civilization. What was left of Europe was a state of chaos. In all other periods of human history I have studied there were similarities among them from which I could draw conclusions upon the condition of the respective times. The Text helped to give order to the progression of European history from the ancient to the modern drawing