Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, tells a story about a dysfunctional family and the hardships they faced in what we call the journey of life. Throughout the book, Jeannette Walls re-encounters her favorite childhood memories spent with her father, Rex Walls, in spite of Rex's recklessness and destruction onto different parts of her life. Rex is a skilled electrician whose alcoholism often gets to the best of him and his decisions. His profusion of alcohol led his family to poverty because instead of paying off bills and buying necessities for survival, he spends most of their income on liquor. Therefore, his children lacked the simplest things such as food and clothing.

What would it be like to grow up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and a mother who doesn’t even want to be responsible for her own children? The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is a memoir based around growing up in such a family. There are six members in the Walls’s family, Rex and Rosemary Walls are the parents of Lori, eldest child, Jeanette and Brain, middle children, and Maureen, youngest. Jeanette’s father played a big role in his families success, when sober Rex was a charming man able to capture the imagination of his children, but when he drank he became destructive, as for her mom a true free spirit artist making life harder on the children. The children soon began to have to take care of their own selves.

Near the beginning of Jeannette Wall’s memoir The Glass Castle, she recalls how she was taught to swim. Her family already struggled with money, moving around constantly, and she had grown to be independent. As she learns to swim, her father employs a concerning strategy: letting her sink and nearly drown before saving her for just a moment, then throwing her back into the water. Jeannette eventually catches on, realizing it’s more harmful to let him save her: “And so, rather than reaching for Dad’s hands, I tried to get away from them…and finally, I was able to propel myself beyond his grasp.”

The book I read was The Glass Castle. This book was written by Jeannette Walls. I chose this book because in eighth grade we read half of this book. I liked the book so I decide to read it to find out what happened.

[“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls she writes about her life growing up as a kid.] From moving around her whole childhood and not ever having enough food, to growing up to being a successful writer. They somehow make it through, proving that money can't buy happiness…but it can pay the rent and buy clothes and food, which helps.

The Glass Castle Book Review By: Stephanie The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. This book spent a total of 261 weeks on The New York Times Best Selling list. It has won countless awards and 2.7 million copies of the book has been sold. Being a memoir, this story was told extremely well.

In “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, she shows moments of her life to explain the truth of her life and how she and her siblings fought through the hardships and persevered. One moment in the book that shows this is when their parents are away from Welch and Lori slaps Erma back after Erma molests Brian when Jeannette explains, “Lori heard the commotion and came running… Erma reached over to slap me, but Lori caught her hand… Erma jerked her hand out of Lori’s grasp and slapped her so hard that Lori’s glasses went flying across the room. Lori, who had just turned 13, slapped her back” (Walls 146-147).

After reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I realized that some bad things that have happened to me aren’t really that bad. Jeannette Walls had been through a lot throughout her childhood, and that has made her a very strong person now days. For example, when Jeannette was very young she had dealt with adversity with when she burned herself and went to the hospital for 6 weeks. She also went through some tough times when her father was drinking and wandered off and she was all alone by herself.

In the novel, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the authors family is very poor and are hiding secrets from each other. In the text, it states, “Jack mackerel was not as good as tuna but was better than cat food, which we ate from time to time when things got really tight… Mom, that ham is full of maggots,” I said. ” It surprised me that her mom didn't care the food was rotting, she just said eat around it. Now-a-days, if say a burger patty is barley brown we just throw it away.

Glass Castle Essay “I’d broken one of our unspoken rules: we were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure.” (Walls 69) In novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls family is supposed to “pretend.” Even though Rex and Rose Mary walls, the parent of the children don’t have a lot of money they tried to give their kids the most fun life possible.

Nicholas Sparks once said, “I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.” In the memoir, The Glass Castle author Jeannette Walls shows how her father Rex Walls changes with everything thrown at him as a father or four. In the beginning of being a parent Rex shares his intelligence with his children.

In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette manages to overcome her obstacles by realizing her independence. She is impacted by her parents’ incapabilities because she realizes that she has to do things differently than other children. Her father was a stubborn alcoholic who believed that: “[they] were all getting too soft, too dependent on creature comforts, and that [they] were losing touch with the natural order of the world”(Walls 106). He believes that every human should be independent and fend for themselves. By using the term “creature comforts”, her father is trying to separate himself from what he calls the civilians.

‘The Glass Castle’ is a book by Jeannette Walls. This book is about the life of the walls family and their happy moments, sad moments, inspirational moments, time being spent together as a family and times when each of them wanted to be completely alone in their own world. This book is about a family loving each other, but at the same time hating each other. Wanting to be together as much as possible, but at the same time wanting to run away screaming. Wanting no harm to come their way, but at the same time welcoming it in through the front door.

Jeannette Walls lived in various settings throughout the time in which we have read so far. Some including, Phoenix, where, she was born. Las Vegas, where they had to flee quickly because her dad Rex was caught up in his scheme with gambling. Jeanette also lived in Blythe, where she was followed home from school one day and beat up by 6 mexican girls. Those girl who also beat up her brother Brian, when he tried to help her the next day.

The Glass Castle is a memoir from 2005 by Jeannette Walls. In my opinion, the author emotionally described in her book her childhood, in which she suffered from hunger, misery and even homelessness. Through the fault of their own parents, who stubbornly refused to stabilize and provide good living conditions for their children, Jeannette Walls went through a Gehenna in school and the environment in which she grew up. Only thanks to her own determination she achieved professional success and happiness in her personal life. The title refers to the long-held intention of her father to build his dream house, a "glass castle".