...Jeannette Walls' writing style is pretty consistent, after all this book is a memoir. She combines the emotional struggle of her early years of childhood with the social and economic factors that surround her to create a pretty bleak picture of what her life use to be like. One thing she definitely accomplishes in this novel is making the reader feel for her and understand her family's situation. With a drunken and unstable father, a mother who seems to never side with Jeannette on anything, and a grandmother who practically hates her, Walls' definitely accomplishes bringing the element of pity and sometimes anger to anyone reading this book. Throughout the book, she is always very descriptive of events and places, often using several vivid adjectives in one sentence, just to give the reader the idea she...
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...people all over the world. Alcoholism is a disease that not only affects the person suffering but the immediate family of the alcoholic. “Alcoholism and drug addiction affects the whole family- young, teenage, or grown-up children; wives or husbands; brothers or sister; parents or other relatives and friends.” ("Family Disease"). In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, her siblings and mother’s daily lives, health, and personalities were greatly affected by Jeanette's father, Rex Walls alcoholism. Some specific effects of alcoholism on families are conflict between spouses, infidelity, domestic violence, economic hardships, isolation or divorce, jealousy...
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...The Walls family throughout The Glass Castle faced a wide variety of problems that helped establish the ominous, problematic, and somber tone of the story. First, the family faced many economic hardships which made it difficult for them to establish a stable life. Also, the two parents, Rex and Rose-Mary Walls had many unacceptable and unbreakable habits which did not help the family progress with their poverty. Finally, Jeannette Walls had many personal struggles and development in her life that helped contribute to the emotion evoked in the memoir, especially in the latter parts. As a result of the family’s poverty, the parent’s habitual issues, and Jeannette’s growth as a person overall establish the darker and depressing tone of the story....
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...The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The book illustrates her struggle through life and how her hardships shaped her into the person she is now. Jeanette is the second out of four children, she has an older sister, Lori, a younger brother, Brian, and a younger sister Maureen. The family is very dysfunctional, they are always doing the skedaddle and living in very poor conditions. They move all around Western America running from their father's mistakes. The way Jeanette's parents raised her, it took her a while to realize that the way she was living was not right, eventually her and Lori came up with a plan to get away from their toxic living conditions. The Glass Castle has three pages in the beginning reserved for praise...
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...Regarding the Walls Family Children Every child deserves a warm and caring family. These days, many children are left in abused and neglected families that affect their life afterwards. I believe it is the duty of Child Protective Services to give children the best environment in which to succeed and grow, to evaluate the situation and develop plan for the family while their parents demonstrate that they love their children, their shortcomings as parents outweigh their good intentions. In Jeannette Wall’s memoir The Glass Castle, she talks about her childhood and life, her parents Rex and Mary Walls, her two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and her brother Brian. According to her memoir, Walls family is very different from others families. They are free spirited; moving from town to town, experiencing exciting adventures, using different approaches of teaching their kids, while looking for help from others despite their rough life. The Walls family presents a difficult challenge to me, as the family dynamic is such that a case can be made both for and against the removal of the children from the parents' custody, but Rex and Rose Mary Walls have subjected their children to a host of questionable situations as they have moved about the country in a transitory lifestyle that I cannot consider permissible for the development of healthy children. As an agent of CPS I cannot in good conscience recommend that Lori, Jeanette, Brian, and Maureen Walls remain in the custody of their parents...
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...Everyone has a different American dream just like everyone has different opinions on politics and religion. This is shown throughout the book The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls. The American Dream was something that people thought was unachievable by most but in reality, it was achievable it just took a lot of hard work and effort, and a lot of people struggled with this part. A lot of hard work and effort were the main parts of the American dream, which caused a lot of people the inability to achieve it. “It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it beauty” (Walls 38). The tree represents the hard work or “struggle” that Jeanette and her family go through when trying to achieve “their” American Dream. I believe the real meaning...
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...dysfunctional family. The author, Jeannette Walls, entertains her readers by sharing the childhood memories of struggle her and her three siblings faced while being raised by their irresponsible and unreliable parents. Towards the end of the book, Jeannette and her siblings decide to move out of Welch, a depressive and poverty stricken town in West Virginia, to start lives for themselves in the city of New York. It is there where they all succeed on paths of their own, except for the youngest child, Maureen, who ends up being sent to rehab after stabbing her mother over an argument. Maureen’s developmental differences can be determined by analyzing and comparing cultural, social, and individual factors between her and her siblings. Culturally speaking, people are influenced all the time. From the rules people follow to the morals they live by, typical patterns of behavior reflect beliefs and values. No two cultures are the same. Therefore, people raised in different areas tend to experience different economic factors and demographic issues which influence opinions on values. In Maureen’s case, most of her childhood was spent in Welsh, where life was very hard for her family. Due to the fact their house was in shackles and garbage littered their front lawn, many of their neighbors, although poor and with little respect for their own selves, immediately looked down upon the Walls family. The hatred and disgust lead to many fights between the Walls children and other kids. Being that...
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...Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë An Electronic Classics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 - 2012 The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë PREFA PREFACE A PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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