the title "The Glass Castle" I believe that there will be either an imaginative glass castle or a real glass castle. I also think that in this book there will be a story about how the characters will achieve or arrive at the glass castle. I think the author will show us all of the obstacles that the characters had to go through to make get there. I predict this because the author would have not been titled the book "The Glass Castle" if there was not real or metaphoric castle. I also predict that
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After reading the first fifty pages of The Glass Castle, there have been many times where I felt skeptical about Jeannette’s parents and the way they raise their children. With issues like injury, moving, and family conflicts, her parents have reacted in ways that many of us may find different compared to our lifestyles today. Although I did disagree with their lifestyle, I was also able to connect to a few of the situations that Jeannette dealt with. In our initial reading, Jeanette mentioned how
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In Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle, out of all of the children Jeannette is the most admirable. Because Jeannette is so willing to put others before herself,and she has so much confidence in others. Jeannette is constantly talking about how amazing Lori is, and Jeannette has no doubt Lori will become a successful artist, (222). This is just one example of how Jeannette is always building others up. Jeannette has no problem with lifting others up above herself in order for them to thrive
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us for who we are.” (Page -157) is important to the book and it can be used to teach people a life lesson. It is important to the book because Jeanette has been through so much as she grows. She’s been judged her whole life. In the book “The Glass Castle”, Jeannette said that she and her family would move place to place and never stayed for long so they never had the time to make friends but she would make enemies. Every place they would live, something bad would happen to her, boys or men would try
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Everybody has read at least one book that has impacted them one way or another and certainly The Glass Castle was not an exception. From the beginning The Glass Castle captures everyone and every sentence we read makes everyone want to read another one.The main character along her whole family all go through very tough and challenging physical, social, and inner obstacles that they must overcome to survive. This is a book that can impact a persons because everyone can connect to the main character
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This chapter is about glass. Miodownik starts the chapter by explaining that he was in a car crash and went through his windshield, this was the moment he realized how intriguing glass is. He then goes into stating that when sand is melted into a liquid and then cools down, it forms a crystal, being glass. This leads into a discussion that talks about a rare sand in this desert that was mostly quartz, making the most beautiful glass crystal. Towards the middle of the chapter, Miodownik informs the
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Walls visited spoke to a packed John R. Emens Auditorium Wednesday night. "I'm just a woman with a really weird childhood," Walls said at the beginning of her presentation. "But the telling of that story has greatly changed my life." "The Glass Castle" is a memoir of poverty and homeless but also of dreams and self-esteem. In it the memoir, Walls tells of being three years old, getting hungry and cooking herself hot dogs. She suffered third-degree burns while her mother painted in the next room
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Naima ENG-276G Compare and Contrast Two memoirs Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls share the same similarities in their life stories: a bad childhood within an alcoholic father. However, these two writers are separated from each other about their feeling toward their family: Senna has child anger to her broken family while Walls has forgiven her careless parents. This anger leads Senna to write this book that she explored
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comic episodes a little more.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle things usually workout in the end" "what if they don't?" "that just means you haven't come to the end yet” ― Jeannette Walls http://kmo236.hubpages.com/hub/The-Glass-Castle-Essay B.This is a novel that is full of tragedy's and the sad truth of what Jeannette walls had to live through in her child hood. C. Jeannette Walls is author of the memoir, The Glass Castle, which has been on the New York Times best-sellers list for
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The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tells the story of Jeannette and her family. Jeannette certainly did not have the easiest life growing up, but she may have had one of the most interesting. I enjoyed the book because the experiences that Jeanette and her family went through make for a very exciting read. These experiences are out of the ordinary and don't represent how a typical American family would live. Jeannette was born into a rather peculiar family. She had a mother and father
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