Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle by: Jeannette Walls Jeannette Walls has a very rough childhood. To living in a RV to a car to a house, to a shack that's crumbling apart. She has a drunk as a father and a mother with some psychological issues making them useless as parents. Jeannette also has a brother and two sisters. The brother is named Brian the sisters are named Lori and Maureen.

On Jeannette Walls’ memoir book “The Glass Castle”, the story of a young girl is told and it inspires readers who can relate to her life decisions. The novel was published on March 2005, the story can inspire readers to take new courses of action and help them transform and evolve as an individual even though their background is unfavorable. This story demonstrates how dreams should not be held back because of their past. At the beginning of the novel Jannette is a young girl who lives with her three siblings and her dysfunctional parents, who ignore their responsibilities, and later becomes a successful woman.

When a small three year old girl is on fire, it’s obvious that there is something wrong. This memoir focuses on one woman’s troubled childhood and rocky family life. Although most readers of The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, have argued that Rex Walls, the father of the author, is the worst role model for children, closer examination shows that Rose Walls, the mother, actually sets a worse example for the kids. Without a doubt, most people think the town drunk is the worst type of parent a child can have, however I feel this isn’t always the case. Jeannette Walls’ mother is an emotionally damaging and selfish woman who doesn't know how to see the logical side of her problems.

The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls, it portrays her life story and shows her hardships. It begins in the Arizona desert with little Jeannette boiling some hot dogs, did I mention that she was only three. So it didn't come as a surprise when her dress caught on fire and caused her whole right side to be burnt to a crisp. When she was taken to the hospital she seemed to enjoy it there more than her home because she wouldn't mind being in a lot of pain. The most common theme in this book is mobility, this is because they move around almost every month due to the "FBI" chasing the Walls' father Rex and when her father came to the hospital and scooped up Jeanette before she was cleared again it did not come as a surprise.

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.

The Walls parents should have has their kids including Jeannette Walls taken away at certain times, in their lives, but despite what they been through together as a family the parens resemble great free spirited creatures who had a lot of wisdom that a lot of parents today don't have. Jeannette wrote many books, but The Glass Castle was based about how she grew up and her siblings to now.     The Walls family had rarely good times there were many times that the family encountered hardship. On page 150 it gives on insight as to what the Walls family go through. When the children moved to Welch, which is located in Virginia, they used the hole that they dug up what was originally meant to build the glass castle as a garbage dump.

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.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls contains many themes throughout the entire book. Jeannette’s book is nonfiction and it is all about the struggles she faced growing up. Both of her parents struggled to keep a job because her father was an alcoholic and her mother was lazy. Because her parents could not hold jobs, they were unable to provide things for Jeannette and her siblings. As the kids were growing up and attending school, they were constantly digging through garbage cans to find food.

The book, The Glass Castle, written by the world renowned author Jeannette Walls, is a memoir of an epic life journey of a small town girl and her family of six. The book starts off with Jeanette's first memory, catching herself on fire at the age of three while cooking unsupervised. This sparks the topic of neglect within her family, which is thoroughly present throughout the book. Although the movie content may be difficult for some audiences to watch, Jeannette Walls demonstrates the importance of addressing the pain or neglect even if it makes the audience uncomfortable.

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.

Where Eagles Learn to Soar The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls depicts the story of her life. She had a very tough childhood but was still able to overcome adversity in order to be successful. This autobiography describes Jeannette’s struggles in detail.

We are not our true selves. In fact, most of us don’t even realize this until much later in life when disaster strikes and we must face the harsh reality. We must face the harsh reality that for most of our life, we do not know who we are and we are not who we are meant to be. In reality, we are not the most-developed versions of our selves during times of joy and happiness. We are not our most-developed selves when everything seems to be falling into place and when all of our hard work is finally paying off.

Children who grow up in dysfunctional families suffer in their early life and in their adult life. A dysfunctional family is defined as inappropriate behavior, continuous argumentation, and potentially, the direct or indirect abuse or neglect of said children. When life problems become chronic and unsolvable, they affect the ability to maintain a healthy home environment. A memoir by Jeannette Walls, titled The Glass Castle, will be used as an example of a successful outcome, after having overcome living in dysfunction. Jeannette and her siblings are successful in their adult lives, although this is not a typical outcome of child cases that are in distress from a dysfunctional family.

The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls. It describes a non-wealthy family that has to move from place to place and has challenges along the way where Jeannette, her brother Brian, and sister Lori are forced to make choices as adults. The Walls children had to be the parents of the house most of the time because Rose Mary and Rex were either never home or just raised there children to be independent and have them do everything on there own. Some choices they had to make as adults were mostly about what they were going to get for food, how to spend their money, and when they lived on their own in New York City. In many ways the Walls children were forced to behave like adults in these cases.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir relaying the young life of the author as she struggles to live through poverty with her family. whilst gradually ageing throughout the book, Jeannette has to face the hardships of a normal growing girl while also facing problems that go on behind closed doors. Walls gives the reader hard-to-face tales of growing up, acting as a parent figure to her younger siblings due to neglect, and trying to keep the family financially stable. At the same time, as she becomes more mature and fed up with her home life, she tries to break free from her familial roots and move to New York with her siblings. In spite of the fact that the Walls children raise the money and move to New York, their parents follow them there and decide to live on the streets without a home.