Jeannette Walls

individuals. For Jeannette Walls, the Glass Castle is more than just the title of her memoir. To begin, Jeannette lived most of her childhood in poverty, running from town to town in order to avoid “federal agents” who are actually just bill collectors. Even so, the family dreamed of a much brighter future in a place called the Glass Castle. Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, planned “A great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a great memoir that highlights the plight of an unconventional upbringing. The wacky and often dangerous situations helped shape Jeannette into the woman she is today. She developed her survival instinct early on and learned to make ends meet no matter what. Although Lori, Brian, and Jeannette are all successful stories, Maureen had trouble finding stability like her siblings. The Walls children's tumultuous relationship with their lead them to be closer with one

to become serial murderers or alcoholics” (83). The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls is the second oldest child in a household of four children. Throughout the story, the reader is taken on Jeannette’s journey as she recounts growing up with dysfunctional parents. Parents who chose the life of poverty. Although her parents were neglectful, irresponsible, and selfish, Jeannette does not tell this story with shame or resentment, but rather with forgiveness. It is with

A Review: The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls is an American writer in journalist who found success in New York City, most notably writing a gossip column for MSNBC in which she details the effects of gossip in politics. She published her memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book spent 261 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. In it, Walls recounts her childhood while growing up in an unstable family with her father and mother, Rex and Rose Mary Walls, her older sister Lori, and her younger

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls is a memoir of a family that is frequently homeless and living in very poor conditions. Despite all this, the protagonist Jeannette Walls does not lose faith but, but does the exact opposite. She does everything in her power to earn money and get an education so she can escape her current life and move to a place with better opportunities, which is New York (Walls 2005) This book intrigued me because of the way Walls tells her story. She does not have a trouble-free

The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. An interesting novel, it switches back and forth between Jeannettes childhood adventures and her current life in New York City. During the childhood adventures, she describes growing up with her mom, Rosemary Walls; her father, Rex Walls; and her three siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen Walls. Invariably short on food and money, life is not easy in this family. Neither of her parents can maintain a steady job, resulting in no income for the

The Glass Castle, a memoir published by Jeannette Walls in 2005, shares the harsh and troubling times a family is forced to overcome. Two very important women in the Walls family’s life impact their struggle tremendously. The mother of Rose Mary Walls, Lily Smith, also known as Grandma Smith is a caring yet strict influence on the Walls family. On the other side, Erma who is Rex Walls’ mother, is an extremely rude and careless mother and grandmother who doesn’t want anything to do with Rex and

despite what he/she has been through. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, she portraits a situation like that where the character spends her childhood memories with her father. Even though Jeannette’s father Rex Walls was an irresponsible father and failed to protect his children, Jeannette still loved her father dearly. During Christmas Jeannette’s father Rex would give his kids stars as a present. Jeannette describes Rex as an intelligent, loving and smart father that she admired

memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. This is the first book that I have read of hers, although I would be interested in reading one of her other books such as “The Silver Star” or “Half Broke Horses”. The memoir takes place in many different cities and states. The novel starts out in New York City when the author is an adult and married, but then it flashes all the way back to when Jeannette, the main character, was three and living in southern Arizona. Jeannette was home alone and she was

One never knows what is in the waiting on the journey of life. There is no guarantee if happiness and good luck will prevail or if despair and misfortune will dominate. In the memoir by Jeannette Walls "The Glass Castle" a girl comes of age in a family who is always on the move as fortunes and emotions are always in question . The children deal with a father who devotes as much of himself to his family as he does chasing an impossible dream and a mother who offers an eccentric practicality. As the