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
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Entrepreneur Jim Rohn said “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rose Mary wants to follow her life long dream of creating famous art. She used what limited amount of money the family has on art supplies and spends most of her time painting or sketching, usually ignoring her other responsibilities. Dreams can help guide a person
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dentist and two loving parents, the youngest of 4 college graduates, and a child of little heart ache or misery. But, it really takes learning about someone else’s experiences to truly understand how blessed you are. While reading your book, The Glass Castle, there were times that I questioned if things had really happened. It was impossible for me to think of a world where people are constantly abused, sexually, physically and emotionally, and moved all over for no personal gain. You saw this and
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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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currently reading The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls. I believe that the author chose this title because it had some sort of significance to her. This reason could be something simple to see, or something much deeper. When the author was young, her father said that he would build the family a castle made of glass. “When dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about all wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle.” (pg.25) As a
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The Glass castle is a memoir of the peculiar childhood and family of Jeanette Walls. The memoir was turned into a movie, which was released August 11, 2017. The movie was written by Destin Cretton and Andrew Lanham. Over 5 million copies of the book have been sold and the movie and the movie has grossed approximately twenty million dollars. Movies that are derived from books usually come across complications when they are compared and critiqued from the standard of the book. When movies are created
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The Glass Castle is a novel that vividly describes the dysfunction of the Walls family. The stories that are described are told by Jeannette Walls who is also the author of the book. In the book, Jeannette describes her life from the age of three years old to adulthood. She tells numerous stories of how her and her family were nomads, and how she managed to escape poverty and become a member of societies middle class. The family lived from city to city and state to state for short periods of time
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The Glass Castle Reflection In Jeannette Walls’s Memoir, she describes how her father, Rex, wants to build a glass castle for him and his family to live in. In the book, she writes, “...All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert” (Walls 25). Rex wanted to make this happen for his family but unfortunately, his plans weren’t so realistic. So if I could build a glass castle the location
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Nature vs Nurture Throughout Jeannette Walls memoir “The Glass Castle” a recurring theme of nature vs nurture is seen by the way the kids act. While the older kids (Lori, Jeannette, Brian) had to survive on their own and struggle, nature, while the youngest (Maureen) always had someone taking care of her. At the end of this memoir the eldest kids end up being successful while the youngest doesn’t, this is because she never had to go through the same struggle to survive and to thrive like her older
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People have said, “The hard way ends is in the easy way.” Throughout The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, Rex the father does not follow this advice. He is a caring yet neglectful father. He is a smart man that could have gone far in life but chose to be lazy and get in fights for the people he works for. Rex ended up becoming an alcoholic father and starting to be absent with his family because of it. He would never make the right decisions and ended up having him or his family pay for
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