The Joshua Tree

After being rushed to the hospital, which uses the white archetype to represent uniformity, sterileness, and artificiality, Jeannette's father, Rex Walls, who is quite the opposite, first challenges her physician’s ways, and then scoops her out of bed and rushes her out of the hospital. This shows that Rex is opposed to medicine and gentle care, preferring rather harsh and natural ways of healing. Rex Walls is introduced as an intelligent inventor, imagining great contraptions such as the Prospector

The Glass Castle: Human Resilience Resilience is a skill that you develop over time through your experiences. People with this quality are able to gather their strength and keep going even when it seems futile to do so. Human resilience can be defined as the ability to come from your lowest point, back to your highest. It is the ability to get back up even when everything and everyone is pushing you down. Resilience can be expressed in several different ways and different people will have different

org/desert_plant_page.htm Dominant types of plant species found in the Rainforest include tulda (Bengal Bamboo), spectablis (Bougainvillea), nucifera (coconut tree), zibethinus (Durian), and aqueum (Jambu)(Rainforest Plants, [date unknown]) Dominant types of plant species found in the Desert include wislezeni (Barrel cactus), brevifolia (Joshua tree), and deltoidea (Triangle-leaf bursage). (Desert Plants, [date unknown]) Rainforest (Rainforest Plants, [date unknown]) Bamboo is able to collect

while his friend was reciting a poem about being free. I felt laughed a little bit when the brake fluid of the car wrecked. They stopped on a barn to fix their car when Guido met a school teacher named Dora. It was funny when Dora fell from a high tree house then to Guido’s arms. I can see on his eyes that he already felt that it was love at first sight. He also called her “Princess”. I can also see in Dora’s eyes on the way she laugh on Guido’s jokes, she already loves him too. Despite of Dora,

In fact, she even references A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, saying "I thought Francie Nolan and I were practically identical, except that she had lived 50 years earlier in Brooklyn and her mother always kept the house clean." (168) What makes Walls' story unique is the deep look we get into

In the Midland, there was a specific type of tree called the Joshua tree. That tree had a unique shape because it would be worn down by the elements it coexists with. One time Jeannette spotted a Joshua tree sapling by their house and she wanted to replant it so she could protect it, but her mother wouldn’t let her. Instead her mother told her, “‘You’d be destroying what makes it special. It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty,’” (Walls 38). Jeannette remembered

L: It must be the Grim Reaper.There couldn't be anything else gesturing like that in Death Valley. R: Ur, I think it's very likely Joshua tree. L&Z: What? R: See the picture on the left, the banches are like upraised arms, right? L: Um...a little. R: Mormon pioneers are said to have named this species "Joshua" tree because it mimicked the Old Testament prophet Joshua waving them. Z: How secret! R: Yes, more over, it has beutiful flowers , which mostly bloom in the spring. L: Wow, we have learnt a

We’d go with her and she’d give us art lessons. One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and

Lori’s glasses represent her receiving clarity and a new perspective. Walls describes the Joshua tree when she “From the time the Joshua Tree was a tiny sapling, it had been beaten down by the whipping wind…it had grown in the direction the wind pushed it. It now existed in a permanent state of windblownness…it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, held it firmly in place” (Walls 35). The Joshua Tree symbolizes the Walls children and how they were raised in an environment that was constantly

devises a plan to uproot the Joshua tree, which has grown sideways in the direction of the constant wind that passes over it, her mother quickly dismisses the idea. Rose Mary claims that the tree is beautiful not because it grows straight like the other trees, but rather because its struggle defines it and makes it unique. Rose Mary is typically unwilling to tamper with nature and she is particularly drawn to the unique form of the Joshua Tree. Through the figure of the tree a young Jeannette learns