After reading Jeannette Walls’ memoir, “The Glass Castle”, it became clear that there were many repetitive factors that shaped the Walls family’s lives. There are numerous accounts of sexual abuse, parental alcoholism, evidence of mental illness and finally poverty in the form of homelessness. For even when the children prospered the parents choose to be homeless. The question is, are these factors relative? Can it be that childhood sexual abuse can inflict mental illness or alcoholism in adulthood
Words: 2307 - Pages: 10
The Glass Castle is a book by Jeanette Walls that details her life and family as she grows up. Jeannette Walls has some interesting characters in the book but the most compelling out of them all is her mother, Rose Mary. She is married to Rex, Jeanette’s father, and is a self described artist who is qualified to be a teacher. Also, she is a free spirit woman like her husband and very optimistic. Rose Mary is intriguing because of how she deals with problems, her mentality, and how she is as a parent
Words: 1473 - Pages: 6
Alexis Duch INS/H1500 Glass Castle Analysis September 27,2012 Jeanette Walls opens her memoir with a scene in which she is three years old cooking hot dogs by herself and her dress catches on fire which escalates to her torso. She yells for her mother to help her and the neighbor takes her to the hospital where she gets to sleep in a clean bed and eat real meals for a few weeks. When she is almost healed but not completely, her Father comes and checks her out “Rex Walls style”. The incidents
Words: 328 - Pages: 2
the fate God allows. Jeannette Walls, in The Glass Castle, also learns that her salvation in life comes from acceptance of both her parents and her past. Resilience is a quality that can be modeled, but most people gain this trait from enduring and overcoming the hardships that they face in order to survive and ultimately, thrive. (OR): Christy Brown from My Left Foot, Jonathan Iwegbu from “Civil Peace” and Jeannette Walls from The Glass Castle are resilient in their ability to overcome hardship
Words: 665 - Pages: 3
neglect and extreme poverty. The children had a sad and independent childhood with their parents, who often tended to their needs over their children. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls writes of how as a young adult she pulled herself out of the unhealthy lifestyle of her parents, and managed to make something of herself. In The Glass Castle, Rex and Rosemary are not the ideal American parents, but they would be considered effective. They would be considered effective because they taught their children
Words: 561 - Pages: 3
Imagine having to always speak for your mother because her English broken or being so poor that you have to dig in the garbage for a meal. In The Glass Castle by author Jeannette Walls, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, “Going Gangsta Choosin Cholita” by Neil Bernstein, and “Vanity Fair” by Nancy Jo Sales all show how childhood experiences can shape an individual into someone who they would be for the rest of their lives. Jeannette Walls and Amy Tan overcome the negative things that happened in their lives
Words: 521 - Pages: 3
Rex Walls’ and Rose Mary’s Questionable Parenting Being married and having 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
Words: 557 - Pages: 3
" 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
Words: 684 - Pages: 3
Hero The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. It examines her struggle as a child and living in poverty as a young adult. She faces many challenges that helps her to become self-sufficient and successful in life. One of those challenges is her dad Rex. He is an alcoholic and he was also irresponsible. Even though Rex was irresponsible, Walls wrote about all the best times she spent with her dad. Despite all that Rex put the family through, Jeannette still loved him for two main
Words: 952 - Pages: 4
Animal Farm Chapter 7 * The animals struggle to rebuild the windmill but it’s really hard and they are falling short of food. * Napoleon blamed the destruction of the windmill and countless other things on Snowball so everyone will start thinking he’s a despicable enemy. * There isn’t a lot of food on the farm, so Napoleon orders the hens to give up 400 of their eggs a week so he can sell. * The hens refuse and are starved until they give into Napoleons demands. * Many of
Words: 303 - Pages: 2
