The Walls Family In The Glass Castle

For my book report project I choose to read a memoir by Jeannette Walls titled The Glass Castle. This book takes the reader through the painful years of Jeannette’s childhood while she and her three siblings struggle to survive due to their irresponsible and self-centered parents. At the beginning of the book, the family was living in California moving frequently from town to town. Jeannette’s father, Rex was a major alcoholic. Because of his alcoholism, he found it very hard to maintain a job. He would become violent in fits of rage, sometimes injuring his own wife and children. The family had to be particularly cautious in what they did or said as to not set him off or avoid beatings. They would “skedaddle” or spontaneously relocate

In Walls’ “The Glass Castle” the meaning of the title is simply a symbol of the American dream. This is because it was the dream of a little homeless girl that her and part of her family wanted to work for so hard to achieve but never did, just like people do with their American dream.

The irregular and sometimes harsh childhood of Jeannette Walls is finally revealed in the memoir The Glass Castle. Jeannette’s story is filled with hardship and many times of nomadic and daring adventures through the desert. Walls uses a broad variety of her experiences that relate in both pathological and ethological manners, and voices a story full of an inferior and unsettling lifestyle through realism and heartfelt passion.

Jeanette Walls and her out of the ordinary family live their lives surrounded in pure craziness and poverty. Jeanette has been raised to be as independent as her age allows her. At age three she could make herself a hot dog and by the age of eighteen she had started a new life in New York away from the craziness that followed her parents throughout the kids nomadic childhood. Jeanette and her siblings Lori, Brian and Maureen live their childhoods with almost nothing. They were always wondering where their next meal would come from and where there parents had mysteriously disappeared to. Rex Walls, the father and husband was a severe alcoholic who spent most of his money on gambling or a beer from a local bar. Rose Mary Walls, the mother and wife was not better, never being to hold onto a job for long enough to get paid and support her family caused many problems for Rose Mary, Rex and most importantly… the kids. The kids all had the dream of escaping the prison their parents called home and heading to New York or California where they could feel endless happiness. The kids grow up with almost no parents, which forces them to become independent from the day they were born. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeanette's parents teach her to only rely on herself and never get attached to something you can lose, forcing Jeanette to become strong and independent throughout her childhood.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also,” (Matthew 5:38-39). In these verses, Jesus explains to his disciples that they should be should be motivated by both love and a desire for the redemption and forgiveness of offenders, even when opposing their actions. Jeannette Walls found the courage to forgive her parents like this after the childhood they put her through. Often times society is not willing to forget about unforgivable acts. However, Jeannette never held a grudge against Rose Mary and Rex Walls, even though they hardly provided for her growing up. The memoir The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls herself, illustrates perfectly how forgiveness can heal a great deal of pain, and benefit both parties involved in the future.

Imagine living in a life where everything around you is different from reality. Imagine running from the police, living wherever one can find, and still taking care of one's family just at the age of 16. Jeannette Walls had to deal with all of this and more in her early childhood. In the book “The Glass Castle”, the author uses the characters, Jeannette and Rex Walls, to emphasize the importance of family bonds.

The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is an autobiographical novel that shows how hard life can be when you have little to no money and highly deteriorated parents. During the whole memoir it shows how hard it is to live in poverty while at the same time trying to raise a family. The exposition of the novel is how having parents that cannot support their children because the lack of a stable income. The rising action is when Jeannette was in a taxi cab going to a party when she sees her mother digging through the trash can and feels embarrassed and tells the taxi driver to take her home. The major conflict in the novel is a man vs. man because Jeannette, her brother, and her sister are all affected by her

"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.

Every kid wants to be able to go out whenever they want to, and yet a child wants to come home to a bed to sleep on every night. The question of whether a child wants to have freedom or security is one that someone can contemplate over and over again, and the more you think about it, the more your mind could alternate between the two options. After reading the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, which is a memoir that describes the life of her nomadic family of six who dealt financial, family, social, and emotional issues all the way from her father being an alcoholic or the children at her school bullying her for her dirty clothes. The children had to deal with unusual circumstances in order to survive the ordeal, and while sometimes

When I think of the name Jeannette Walls, I automatically think of her book, The Glass Castle. This is a story about her life and the hardships she faced growing up. She experienced poverty, hunger, bullying, and so many more horrible things that others can relate to. At a young age, Jeanette was a little oblivious to her family’s problems. When people are young, they are less experienced with hard times and personal problems.

In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, she talks about her family's dysfunctional ways of living. How they never stayed in a place for more than a few years. Her dad was a drunk and stole money from the family and her mom was a starving artist who didn’t want to get a job to provide for her family. Although her parents have some very poor qualities, they definitely have good qualities that balance it all out. Her dad Rex Walls; for example, was very caring and loving towards his family always trying to keep them together and make sure they had what they needed to survive. Jeannette’s mom Rose Mary was selfish to her family and though it seems like a bad trait it had taught her children to be self-sufficient. Them together were free-spirited never caring what other people thought and teaching their children to do the same.

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.

Parenting has always been an issue since the brick of dawn and recently been recognized as a problem for our society: remarkably people have finally decided to try to do something about it. In the Glass Castle, Rex and Rose Mary Walls went through many struggles raising their children but ultimately the struggles made the children stronger individuals; despite the alcoholism, sickness, and domestic abuse. Jeanette and her siblings have been through many

My early impression of the Walls family was that they had a lot of problems. One of the reasons was that they let a three year old cook on a flame top stove and no one was even watching her or in the room with her. Also, the was that they checked Jeannette out of the hospital, they basically ran out of the hospital without even paying the bill. They also packed up and left their house in the middle of the night because the dad had so many bills that the debt collectors were after him. Jeannette family moved so many times that she and Lori can't even remember all the places that they have lived. I believe later on in the book Rex and rosemary are going to get in trouble with the law because of the way they do things with their kids. For

Writer, Jeannette Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle, provides an insight into the fanciful and shocking life of growing up poor and nomadic with faux-grandiose parents in America. With her memoir, Wall's purpose was to acknowledge and overcome the difficulties that came with her unusual upbringing. Her nostalgic but bitter tone leaves the reader with an odd taste in their mouth. In some memories, the author invites her audience to look back on with fondness; others are viewed through bulletproof glass and outrage.