Introduction Think back to your childhood, perhaps you remember playing games with siblings or maybe going on a walk with your parents or something fun and happy. And then as you go through life, maybe you realize that playing isn’t as fun and maybe the colors of the earth around you aren’t as vibrant or beautiful as they used to be. That’s growing up, realizing that everything isn’t sunshine and rainbows and not everything works out. In the books The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, kids are forced to mature or grow up because society is unethical.

Glass Castle In The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, Jeanette starts as a child who thinks everything is all fun and games and that there is no bad in the world, she thought everything was a fun adventure. One example of Jeanette’s innocence is in the first chapter when she gets set on fire. Instead of freaking out, she jokes around about it and when Rex took her and ran out of the hospital, she thought it was a game. In chapter 2, Jeannette says, “in my mind, Dad was perfect”, even though the reader can clearly tell that Rex is far from perfect. …show more content…
One example would be on page 74 where Jeanette says “Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?”. This shows that Jeanette realizes that her father has a problem and isn’t perfect like she previously thought. Another example would be when Jeanette is playing hide and seek with her classmates in Battle Mountain and Billy deal raped her. When Jeanette realizes what happened, she realizes that people are bad and bad things