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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is an autobiography about a young woman’s journey in life. It delves into her childhood, which was as dire as it could become, and how she was able to break her family’s habits and achieve her dreams of becoming a reporter/journalist. There were several significant lessons throughout the story, but what I deemed to be the most valuable lesson was that struggle is important. In the book, struggle is what built Jeannette into who she is today. It drove her to be

Character Response 1: Quote: “Dad drove fast and sang really loud, and locks of hair fell into his face and life was a bit scary but still a lot of fun” (Walls 23). Trait: Through out the beginning pages of Jeannette Walls’s novel, The Glass Castle, Rex Walls is portrayed and characterized as being eccentric and unwavering. Change/ Development: Aided by his physical characteristics such as the hair that “fell into his face”, Jeannette’s father appears peculiar. In effect, his unruly appearance and

fairy-tale, it is a biography written from personal knowledge or special account. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls recalls her childhood memories with her family. From Rex Walls, her father, allowing her into the cheetah den to his last moments with her before she moved to New York. The Glass Castle was truly effective from the beginning to the very end of the book. Jeanette writes The Glass Castle to show to older teens that no matter how bad your childhood is or was, it doesn't mean that your

Individualism. Like all memoirs and novels, Rocket Boys and The Glass Castle present a lesson that one may choose to live by. In this case, individualism is an evident factor that relates to both Jeannette’s and Sonny’s stories. That is, both protagonists displayed the idea of disregarding their father’s wishes for their future and just going for their own. In The Glass Castle, despite her father’s hope to raise Jeannette until he felt he was ready to let go, Jeannette made a life-changing decision

In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Walls uses pathos to make her point. Pathos is a rhetorical device that appeals to your emotions. “When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the the garbage pails, I’s go retrieve them. I couldn’t get over the way kids tossed out all this perfectly good food: apples, hard-boiled eggs, packages of peanut-butter crackers, sliced pickles, half-pint cartons of milk, cheese sandwiches with just one bite taken out because the kid didn’t like the

The Glass Castle is an enthralling story of Jeannette Walls’s extraordinary childhood riddled with unfortunate circumstance after circumstance. With her parents unable to hold steady jobs, Jeanette and her siblings became accustomed to constantly running from bill collectors, living in a continuous cycle of hazardous, disheveled homes, never knowing when or where their next meal was going to come from. Her memoir begins with the rehashing of a trip she took as an adult to attend a party in New York

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

The Glass Castle The parents from the glass castle Rose Mary and Rex Wall were quite different parents. They weren't quite clean, and having a job to Rexs Walls is gamble and make money. But children were children wanted a normal life so when there with friends they didn’t really mention their life styles. There irresponsibility of the parents and the children wanting to take care of themselves led to the children breaking apart from their parents early. Supporting the family was one of the most

The Glass castle is a memoir of the peculiar childhood and family of Jeanette Walls. The memoir was turned into a movie, which was released August 11, 2017. The movie was written by Destin Cretton and Andrew Lanham. Over 5 million copies of the book have been sold and the movie and the movie has grossed approximately twenty million dollars. Movies that are derived from books usually come across complications when they are compared and critiqued from the standard of the book. When movies are created

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