According to a 2017 study done by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, “More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.” The author Jeannette Walls uses the book, The Glass Castle, to talk about her childhood struggles of growing up with an alcoholic father. The reason this book was appealing was because I grew up with an alcoholic father as well and I found it interesting to read about someone who had gone through similar situations. In the first
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The Glass Castle 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
Although the books Flight, The Joy Luck Club, and The Glass Castle all have different storylines, they have a common theme. Throughout each book, the characters all experience some sort of shame whether it 's from one 's appearance to the way one lives. In Flight, Sherman Alexie introduces the reader to a boy who is so ashamed of his appearance that he gives himself the nickname Zits. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan shares with the reader a story about the struggle of the mother-daughter relationship
Angela Lin Mrs. O’Neal AP English Language and Composition—4 9 April 2016 The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls: Biography Jeanette Walls is a journalist and a writer who is best known for her work as a gossip columnist for MSNBC and for her memoir, The Glass Castle, which spent over 200 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association 's Alex Award and the Books for Better Living Award, and is being made into a film by Paramount entertainment
The Glass Castle is not an ordinary story of a childhood filled with challenges and problems. It is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls of her childhood. Although a memoir and an autobiography are almost interchangeable, an autobiography incorporates the life of the author whereas a memoir is a segment of their life. This memoir depicts the defining childhood of Jeanette Walls. Since a memoir is a non-fictional story, the element of non-fiction and truth is the most important. There has to be significant
been liked to be raised. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle are two comparable works that the first thing that stood out was the parenting them. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson is a book that has many father and son relationships as well as forgiveness, it’s a letter from a father to a son narrating all the experiences and stories he went through his life. On the other hand, The Glass Castle is a novel that recounts the author’s, Jeannette Walls, childhood and life as
Jeannette Walls wrote the memoir, The Glass Castle, about the story of her life and her family. She wrote about her and her family’s hardships and what they went through throughout their lives. A major theme throughout the book would be self-efficiency. Jeannette and her family traveled for the majority of their lives but never went to others for help. They learned to live on their own, be strong and not rely of society norms or what is normal to help them through life. This was a value to their
English 3 Eldridge Independent Reading Book Project The Glass Castle “Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more” (Walls 129). The Glass Castle depicts Jeanette Walls dysfunctional family as she grows up being homeless. Jeanette, her siblings, and her parents travel across the Southwest living briefly in small desert towns. The refusal of the Walls’ family to conform to society is both a blessing and a challenge throughout Jeannette and