The Influence Of Parents In Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle

Each and every parent has their own style of parenting. Each parenting style is based on certain beliefs and conventions that are used to teach children to become increasingly self-sufficient as they age. The novel “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, explores the unusual ways that Rex and Rose Mary Walls’ raise their children. Generally, parents will attempt to keep their children out of harm’s way by any means necessary, although, in “The Glass Castle,” this is not the case. Rex and Rose Mary Walls' unconventional, relaxed style of parenting teaches their children Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen to be self-sufficient at a young age.

There are several different social issues presented in Jeannette Wall’s memoir “The Glass Castle.” These issues included neglect – medical and education,

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

Anyone who has read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls would say that Mary and Rex Walls were unfit parents for Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen. They would even say that the children would have been better in foster care. Although people say foster care would be better for Jeannette and her siblings, they actually would have not been better in foster care, because it has been proven that foster care can have a deep effect on children as they grow up, and sometimes there are worse living conditions in foster care than in the actual home with biological parents. Rex Walls and Mary might not be fit parents in many people’s opinions, but the Walls’ siblings, especially Jeannette, would not be who they are today without

Parents are an essential part of a children’s childhood. Bad parents can be portrayed as those who do not love their children, who do not dedicate time to their kids, or those who do not provide comfort or protection, but instead, put their children in instability and danger. Good parents possess qualities such as being attentive to their children, showing understanding, trust, encouragement, and most prominently, expressing love to them. In Jeannette Wall’s The Glass Castle, both Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls demonstrate the horrible aspects of parenting exceedingly more often than the good characteristics of a parent.

Living in Welch was a very life changing time for Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle. In her book, she lives in many places but doesn't stay in the same place for long. Welch was the longest place her and her family lived. As Jeannette lived her life in Welch she kept running into unbearable situations which was due to her parents lack of ability to take care of them correctly. Unlike before Jeannette starts to realize these faults in her parents. Her mother had a job and was getting a steady income but on page 198, she says , ¨So even though she had a steady job, we were living pretty much like we had before.¨ Not only did Jeannette realize her mother could not handle money she also saw her unable to hold a job and her irresponsibility

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 way she felt there. The Walls children loved being free to roam the area and make up games to play. In the book Walls writes, “DAD GOT A JOB AS an electrician in a barite mine. He left early and came home early, and in the afternoons we all played games.” (Walls.54) Jeannette loved that her dad finally had a job and could buy her things. She said they even were able to go out to week a few times a week. This was a treat for the children since they were used to having to find their own food. She also loved how her dad would play games with them when he got home from work. It gave her a sense

Parenting styles vary throughout families. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette walls the parenting style that most exemplifies Rex and Rosemary Walls is being permissive. In The Four Parenting Styles” it states that parents often” take on the status of a friend more than that of a parent” (Cherry, The Four Styles of Parenting). While at the zoo, Jeannette wanted to pet the cheetah that the day and the rest of the kids were close to. “May I pet him please? I asked dad” (Walls/The Glass Castle). No normal parent would even let their child anywhere near a wild animal, especially and animal as dangerous as a cheetah. A friend would dare them to pet a cheetah but a parent would not. In the article over the parenting styles

In the memoir, The Glass Castle, the Walls family are known for not living in one place for an extremely long time. Just a few places that the Walls family lived were: Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Midland, Blythe and Battle Mountain. Jeannette Walls, the author, was most influenced by her time living in Battle Mountain. This is shown by the numerous experiences that she had with her family which changed who she was as a person and eventually formed her into the person and author she is today.

The Great Neck South High School English Department should require all incoming eleventh-grade Advanced Placement English students to read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. In this memoir, Walls describes her untraditional upbringing. As the most mature of four children, she forces herself to run her family’s spending as well as take care of her alcoholic father and egomaniacal mother. The family, constantly misbehaving and breaking laws, must move from town to town and state to state in order to escape punishment. Jeannette realizes that in order to succeed as a journalist and become a stable, happy adult, she needs to cut off her relationship with her parents. Jeannette never blames her parents. She rather realizes that they continuously

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

Many people look up to their parents and wish to imitate their success. Many people recall their childhood as the good old days when life was easy and stress-free. However, not everyone can relate to carefree childhoods and role model parents. The memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the story of Jeannette Walls’s childhood. The memoir includes short stories from the past and an overall summary of Jeannette’s life. Jeannette Walls became the woman she is because of her childhood and the hardships she faced growing up.

The story of Jeannette Walls begins one cold March evening when she comes across a homeless woman, which is then revealed to be her mother. It is there that her troubled past comes into light in, “The Glass Castle”. But through her disastrous childhood and dysfunctional family, she manages to turn it around and and by education, expectation, and most of all environment, Jeannette grew from her experiences and came out successful and stronger than ever.

I noticed that parents that are very protective about how people view their child tend to have poor relationships because they don’t attempt to accept and understand who their child is. Stockton’s and Witterick’s parenting is protective and a wiser choice in a matter that they are helping Storm flourish into an individual without the opinion of society. But I disagree that they are emphasizing that freedom of being whoever they desire to be at a very early age without the establishment of who they are and how they are seen in society. The children seem to one day develop confusion on why society is different than they are. For example, Jazz enjoys painting his nails, wearing dresses, pink shorts, and pattern pink socks, and putting bright

Every conscious decision made on how to parent a child, for example whether or not a timeout is a sufficient punishment, directly affects the mentality of a child in regards to similar situation in the future. Both the adverse effects, along with the positive effects can be seen in direct correlation from parent to child. Destructive and intrusive behaviours such as abuse, both emotional and physical, and neglect can lead to the formation of destructive habits in adulthood. Whereas constructive influences from parental figures are considered of utmost importance and contribute to future success. In addition, sexual abuse by a parental figure has been proven to have lasting long term effects. “Research suggested that many adult survivors of sexual abuse had gone on to experience difficulty forming healthy relationships. These victims often blamed themselves for the abuse, which made it difficult to come to terms with the psychological, emotional, and social consequences of that type of violation” (Family Relations, Vol. 60, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 435-445). However, it is important to note that positive influences from parents affect children as well. Morality is essentially treating other people's interests as equivalent to your own, the ability to connect to others and, of course, the ability to not do them harm. These principles are all learned in the earlier stages of development and influenced by the actions and teachings of one’s parents, or parental figure. A moral compass is simply an extension of this idea slightly modified to fit one’s personality. A person’s individual moral compass, along with their conscience, is the driving factor behind almost all of the decisions they make, especially ones that take place in social situations. For instance, whether or not a teenager decides to give up a seat on the train for an older woman is