...that of biological theoretical viewpoints. I come from parents who have both struggled with both drugs and alcohol abuse. With the research that has been done and I am sure they are still doing to keep testing their theory they have proven that if our biological parents drank and did drugs then there is a possibility that their children would also have a dependency on drugs and alcohol. I also think that if a child grows up around their parents or guardian abusing alcohol and drugs then they will as well. For example my mother’s parents raised my brother and me, our grandparents would only drink on holidays such as New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve they did not drink any other time. Our Uncle was an alcoholic he drank every single day starting with the time he woke up till the time he went to bed. As far as I know he did not drink while he was as work but did before he went into work. Due to all of the alcohol he would drink he ended up becoming extremely sick went into the hospital he was dying. As he was in the hospital and when the doctor told him that if he keeps on drinking he will not live to see his next birthday. His experience was scary every one of us was scared that he would not be here with us anymore. He decided then that he was not going to drink anymore started going to AA meetings. My brother who is 28 years old went to the AA meeting with our uncle; he was our uncle biggest support. My brother is an alcoholic he was one by the time he turned 18 years old. This is...
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...Abuse Throughout the book, The Glass Castle, Rex and Mary Walls showcased their unconventional parenting style. Jeannette Walls, the author of the book and a child of Rex and Mary, gave her opinion on her parents and showed what is was like to be a Walls child. Rex, an alcoholic, didn’t like answering to anyone and felt as though he was a great provider for his family. Mary didn’t want to do what was necessary for her family and had very selfish views of the world. The way that they parented was very neglectful, but it was not close to abuse. Rex and Mary didn’t provide for their children like they should’ve, but they taught their children important values and skills. Rex Walls was an alcoholic man that exaggerated many parts of his life to feel better about himself and impress his children. An example of this is...
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...Grove Summary His parents lived I Florida in a town called Frostproof. His girlfriend (don’t know if she is) were visiting his parents. We don’t get to know if she is his girlfriend or just a lover, cause in the text on page 9, line 43 she says: ‘’ I never asked him to leave his wife’’ then they must have a strange relationship. His parents live near by a lake. One day the man and his ‘’lover’’ are out on the lake in their boat. His mother doesn’t like the girl. The girl seems to apologize to him many times, and he says that she just needs to stop apologizing all the time. The guy wants to have children with her, but he can’t if she’s drinking all of the time. One night after the family were asleep in their own bedroom, she were sneaking into the bathroom and opened her shampoo bottle to drink whisky. I think she is an alcoholic, she acts like that. She was afraid if he could smell it on her skin that she had been drinking. One evening the guy and his father are out of the house, the mother and the girl watches television, the guys comes home again, the mother says to her son, that she think that his girlfriend are sick and, she wants to go home. Then he asks if that is right, the girlfriend answers back that it is right at she wants to go home. Characterize of the persons The girl There is the girl who is visiting the guy parents. She acts like an alcoholic person. She has taking some whiskey in to at shampoo bottle, just to keep it a secret. She is afraid that her boyfriend...
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...Dorothea Helen Gray was born on January 9, 1929 in Redlands, California. Her parents were Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray. They were both alcoholics and were both cotton pickers. Her father died when she was 8 from tuberculosis and her mother died a year later from being in a motorcycle accident. She was sent to an orphanage until one of her family members from Sacramento came to take her under their wing. Dorothea lied about her childhood by saying that she was one of three children and that they were born and raised in Mexico. Dorothea was married a total of 4 times, her first time being when she was just 16 to a soldier named Fred McFaul. She had two daughters with him between 1946 and 1948. Unfortunately, she gave one of them to the family out in Sacramento and the other one she put up for adoption. McFaul left her and she was very embarrassed so she told everyone that he had died...
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...Growing up in the lower-middle class of London creates many obstacles as it is. That paired with a demanding mother, and a father who is a recovering alcoholic is where Jeanette Winterson finds herself for most of her childhood. Through the events Jeanette Winterson encounters with her parents in her memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, the outlasting role that a guardian has on a child becomes very evident. Throughout the memoir Jeanette has the tendency to always disappoint her mother. Since her father does not tend to get involved, her mother has complete control over the house which leads to very strict guidelines. The choices she makes almost always go against what her mother says or does. However, it really is not surprising...
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...Donato-Jennings English 10 November 1, 2015 The Glass Castle In Jeannette Walls’s novel The Glass Castle, it shows the reader that even when you're growing up with hardships it doesn’t mean that one can’t grow up to be successful. She shows her readers this by writing a memoir which is The Glass Castle. She retells the stories of her life growing up with her three siblings and parents. After reading the story one would think that the Wall’s children wouldn’t have amounted to anything. They moved from place to place never really settling down in a town for too long. Jeannette’s parents were careless and irresponsible and were always looking out for their own best interest. Even though Jeannette’s parents weren’t the best they still showed them how to be independent and value the things in life others may have taken for granted. The Wall’s children grew up never really having a home and they knew that. They relied on each other because their parents were neglectful. They were okay with that though and often they were the ones who more responsible than their parents were. Their dad, Rex being an alcoholic and their mom Rose- Mary who was always consumed in her paintings or any of her other hobbies. Jeannette and her siblings often had to take the bigger role in their family....
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...Diana Benavidez Mrs. Donato-Jennings English 10 November 1, 2015 The Glass Castle In Jeannette Walls’s novel The Glass Castle, it shows the reader that even when you're growing up with hardships it doesn’t mean that one can’t grow up to be successful. She shows her readers this by writing a memoir which is The Glass Castle. She retells the stories of her life growing up with her three siblings and parents. After reading the story one would think that the Wall’s children wouldn’t have amounted to anything. They moved from place to place never really settling down in a town for too long. Jeannette’s parents were careless and irresponsible and were always looking out for their own best interest. Even though Jeannette’s parents weren’t...
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...The moment I remember the most about my past is when my parents got a divorce. It happened such a long time ago but I still can see it as clear as water in my mind. I came home from school one day a perfectly normal day. I open the door and my mom and dad are talking in the living room. They ask my sister and I to sit down and that they have some things they need to talk to us about. We sit down and they begin talking about a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make much sense and that’s when I heard the word “divorce”. At first I wasn’t really sure what to make of things but slowly I began to piece together what it was. That day was a very hard day and it left me puzzled and confused. After about a week I started to see my school counselor things...
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...Jeannette’s parents, Rex and Rose Mary, are characterized as negligent which has caused her to mature faster than everyone else her age. Jeannette uses her parents emotions and actions to help characterize them. Rose Mary is the type of person that is self-centered and doesn’t care about her kids. She could care less about her children because all she cares about is herself and what she wants to do. On the other hand, Rex is the type of person that has a strong belief in education but at the same time he has many weakness like not providing much for his family and being an alcoholic. He has had many jobs, surprisingly, but manages to lose them very easily. The sad part is, that because of his actions of losing his jobs so easily, Jeannette...
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...kids doesn't make good parents. Good parenting usually comes from a united and loving marriage. In the memoir The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls struggles through life but still makes it through tough times. Rex and Rose Mary Walls are not great parents because they put there own needs in front of the needs of their children and are inadequate role models. Rex Walls and Rose Mary buy unnecessary artifacts not needed in their time of need, therefore putting themselves in front the kids. Rose Mary and Rex Walls were thinking about buying their kids beds shortly after moving, but Jeannette’s “Mom decided that what we really needed was a piano.” (Walls 52) This kind of parenting is terrible because the piano wasn’t needed in this case, the kids needed a bed. Therefore they put their own needs and things that they want in front of the things that their children need....
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...Jeannette decided to name her book The Glass Castle because of her unconventional childhood growing up. The title “Glass Castle” metaphorically symbolises her life of poverty and dysfunction growing up with her parents and their constantly changing lifestyle. This title reflects the fragile relationships she had with her family members which, if not handled properly; could have demolished her family much like a rock being thrown through a glass house at any given moment. The most memorable moment about her story is, even though her parents were negligent, irresponsible and careless; they still managed to raise responsible and independent adults. The Walls children learned how to depend on each other for everything because Rose Mary was a self-absorbed, negligent mother who only cared about her herself and her interests and Rex was an alcoholic father who only cared about his kids when he was sober. Although both parents neglected their children, they both genuinely loved them, just not all the time. Jeannette grew up happy despite the day to day issues living in poverty. Rex and Rose Mary’s neglect for their children’s basic safety needs are mainly present in Jeannette’s childhood. When Jeannette was three, she badly burned herself when she was cooking hotdogs by...
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...happened I remember my dad’s phone ringing, he was asleep in his recliner, so I looked at who was calling, it was Ciba. I remember shaking my dad to wake him up telling him that Ciba was calling but he said he would just call him later. He didn’t know that he would never get the chance. My parents told me to watch my sister and that they would be right back, they were just going to run to Ciba’s house to make sure everything was okay and that one of his buildings probably just caught on fire. I waited up for an hour waiting for them to come home, and they didn’t. My sister ran into my room late at night yelling for me to wake up because Ciba was dead and Jamie was missing....
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...experiments with his art, it is just want he wants to do and he loves it. But on the other hand there is his father’s wish for his education. His mother and especially his father who is a newsagent-cum-stationer aren’t happy with his interest in painting and making art. They think Julian should continue his scientific career, although his mother tells him that he can always keep up his drawing and artwork ‘’as a kind of hobby’’ (s. 3 l. 96-97). But the parent’s attitude to their sons’ painting changes after they meet Miss Hoare. Mr. Holroyd, Julian’s father don’t like the summer tourist, but his attitude to Miss Hoare is different and he tells the family at home that Miss Hoare was staying at the most expensive hotel in Sheringham, Julian's parents are very aware of their reputation Sheringham, and it shows in the text, they like having afternoon tea at the most expensive hotel in the town ‘’in a rather...
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...through life. Struggling with hardship and abuse, how both authors’ dealt with their hardships, and how they ultimately survived/overcame these trying events, show similar correlations. Families are customarily impacted by life’s trials as a whole when misfortune strikes, such as the loss of a job, or loved one. Daisy Hernandez and her family luckily did not lose a loved one, but in her essay “My Father’s Hands” she writes of the struggles that accompanied the closing of various factories in the town where Hernandez lived, which resulted in unemployment for her mother and father. Low income from the lack of employment led to very stressful and unsettling times in the author’s household. To add to the destitution, Hernandez’s father was an alcoholic and commonly took his drunken rage (fueled by his suppressed turmoil of not knowing how to provide for his family or how to stay strong) out on her. The lack of work for her father led to a surplus in his drinking habits. “The world was cruel to him, yes, but it was hard for me to be angry and afraid of an abstract idea like “world.” It was easier to be afraid of my father’s hands. Easier to be angry when the blistered and swaying drunk hands slapped me on the back of my head.” (Hernandez, 412). During her mother and fathers unemployment they would try to get a grip on their low income by collecting unemployment, job...
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...Throughout The Body, there is a reoccurring theme revealed through the foreshadowing of events and parent/adult interaction with the boys. The theme that “the most important things are the hardest to say” (293) represents that as you are coming of age, you experience a new type of reality and with that, rites of passages that bring about serious conflicts and situations most do not like to discuss. Foreshadowing is an important literary device portrayed throughout the book that supports the theme. At the end of the story when the four boys make it back to Castle Rock, Teddy and Vern “started off in their direction” (424), foreshadowing what happens to the boys in the future. Teddy and Vern stay in Castle Rock and live up to the low expectations society expect them to, but Gordie and Chris get out of Castle Rock and make a career for themselves; Chris becomes a lawyer and Gordie a writer. Gordie, in present day simply says, “It’s not fair, but it happens. Some people drown” (432), referencing that as you mature, you can choose your own path for life like himself and Chris, or stick with the status quo of what society assumes you are going to become, like Teddy and Vern. This relates to the theme because acknowledging that someone that was once close to you did not reach the amount of success as you did, especially when those people are deceased, makes you sound like you think you’re above them. This is also something that must be realized through maturity, and it gets...
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