Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Two readers, two different age groups, two different opinions, and one text. The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. In this nonfiction story, Jeanette and her family are homeless and move all around the country for a place to stay for a few months before they have to “skedaddle” and move to another location, and repeat the process all over again. In this text, maturity plays a big role, in which the children, Jeannette and her siblings must make big decisions ordinary children wouldn’t be able to make because their parents are incapable of doing so, even if we, the readers, don’t approve of them. In The Glass Castle, the text can be interpreted by two different readers based on their age because the opinions of the readers

The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The book switches back and forth between her childhood adventures and her current life in New York City. During the childhood adventures, Jeannette describes growing up with her mom, Rosemary Walls; her father, Rex Walls; and her three siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen Walls. Life is not pleasant or comfortable with this family. They are constantly short on food and money.

Like most best-selling books, “The Glass Castle” has taken up the opportunity to be made into a movie. A book based on a memoir of the Jeannette Walls who portrays that the idea of family, poverty, and education, was not always what it seems. An alcoholic father played by Woody Harrelson and a condescending artistic mother played by Naomi Watts who showed that there was still hope beyond the conditions that they were in yet failed to show. When it was first released back in August 2017, the anticipation for the movie wasn’t as expected compared to the book in my opinion. It didn’t really portray what Jeannette Walls had felt and seen in the book.

The Glass Castle is a emotional memoir that takes the reader on an adventure with the Author Jeannette Walls. The storys starts off from one of Jeanette's earliest memories. Cooking hot dogs as a three year old she caught on fire and obtained bad burns. A three year making hot dogs without any help or parental guidance or supervision. In this memoir the reader is taken up through Jeanette's life and will quicked learn the rocky relationship between the kids and the parents.

No matter how messed up, annoying, or just plain out crazy your family is, at the end of the day they’re still your family and you love them. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, you will learn and read about a very dysfunctional family. Throughout Jeanette’s childhood she went through constant struggles. From catching on fire trying to cook herself a hog dogs when she was 3, to moving over 20 times throughout the years while her parents struggled to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Jeanette shows us that despite bad parenting, a child can still become resilient.

The Glass Castle shows Jeannette’ living in poverty, and the way Jeannette and her siblings came through and accomplished their successful lives when they were on their own and had no support from their parents. The Glass Castle provides the family’s poor living conditions, and the children’s achievements that

My banned book report is about the nineteen seventy one anonymously published book Go Ask Alice. This book is a journal written by a thirteen year old unknown girl and her struggle through drugs and running away. This book is ,according to the Dangerous Books website, one of the most frequently challenged books sitting at number twenty three in the top one hundred most challenged books. I find the fact that this book is challenge so often to be warranted but I do not think it should be banned. Throughout the book Go Ask Alice it is made very clear that this book is just a warning against drug and give many example of how drugs can destroy someone's life.

This book was something interesting because there are some facts that parents that feel that it need to be banned. But what these parents don’t understand is that since their children are in highschool they would already know what half of the content of the books mean and or are. The book Slaughterhouse Five many people think it should be banned but honestly the book shouldn't be banned there is so much more to the book that many people don't even understand . But in Missouri the book was banned for its profane language.

Originally published in 1990, The Things They Carried is a collection of war stories that took place during the Vietnam War. Due to its accurate and honest depiction of war, it has been banned for crude language, violence, drug use, and sexual innuendo. The author, Tim O’Brien, was born in Austin, Minnesota in 1946. Due to his service in the United States military during the Vietnam War, O’Brien is able to depict the war in a more graphic, and realistic manner.

Others have decided not to ban it, because of the first amendment. Although banning Fahrenheit 451 would be an infringement on the author's right to speak freely, the long-lasting mental and physical devastation to the children reading this book that arises as a result of

Book challenging is an attempt by a person or group of people to have a book removed from a public library or school. Although the novel The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie does expose young teenagers to racism and describes sexual acts and have many other issues. It does not mean it has to be taken off of schools and library shelves because the book gives students a view of other people's lives and they can from that. In the year 2011 the Stockton school board in Missouri were the first to ban the book.

The book Looking for Alaska by John Green is about the journey and struggles of adolescence. In the book, the main character leaves home in search of a “great perhaps”. John Green is the author of many award winning young adult books, similar to Looking for Alaska. Throughout the book, substance abuse and suicide is frequently mentioned. Many parents and school boards are opposed to the idea of this book due to its explicit content.

I understand why many parents or teachers would not want children reading this book because it does glorify the use of certain drugs like marijuana and nicotine. It also touches on many different sensitive subjects such as homosexuality, rape,

Teachers should not allow the reading of a book that includes poor language, sexuality, and violence. School is made to teach students new vocabulary words, how to write essays, and, especially, culture. It is vital, to me, the deep knowledge of our first language. Learning new words is fundamental; it makes you grow up and helps you to be more mature. In my opinion, talking to someone who uses his or her native language appropriately is great.

In an article by Beverly Goldberg, she voices a parents opinion, "When my son went through school and read those books, he got good messages about being a moral person," Burroughs-Molette Elementary School media specialist Judy Teston asserted at the September 10 meeting”. This shows that books that are censored just because of racial slurs or other words don't mean that the books shouldn't be ready. These books should be read because they contain important morals and life lessons. Tara Seale, an English teacher, says “An older generation remembers how the book pushed them into this realm of questioning and wants to create that experience again for the next generation. It is a book that helps us grow and move towards becoming a more understanding and tolerant society, which is ultimately what we would all like to have happened.”