Journal #2 1.) The Well’s Lifestyle is that kids should learn at an early age how to depend on themselves and learn from their mistakes even if that meant that the children were at a High risk of getting hurt. Jeannette learns to tolerate all these behaviors because she trusts so much in her dad and believe everything he says. She also understood that it was for her own good since they never had anything to really compare in to depth with. In the Swimming event she learns how to swim by being
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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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with their children, having a higher socioeconomic status, and teaching their children social and arithmetic skills. I didn’t agree with all of the traits that the article presented such as having a higher socioeconomic status. The author of The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, is a perfect example of how this quality doesn’t define success. One-fifth of American children grow up in poverty. Jeannette happened to be a victim of this; however, it’s proven that she is a very successful author and has a
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1. “We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotton,' Dad said,'you'll still have your stars.” | Adjective – CheapExplanation - This quote is very important because it characterizes how the Walls children are. This shows us that they are positive, by making a positive side of their situation. While small children want many toys for Christmas, Jeannette
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* Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw Synopsis: Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. Nothing life comes easy, you have to pay the price. The best way to expand your mind is reading, reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Getting a good education may just be the most important price you can pay. What you do with your education in your teen years will more than likely determine the quality of life you have in the
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In The Glass Castle, we are introduced to a family of six and we learn about the parents, Rex and Rose Mary, along with their behavior, attitude, personality, and the overall approach they have towards parenting their children. We all know that the bottom line to "good parenting" is to avoid any type of negligence toward your children. With further study into the book, one may come to the conclusion that Rex and Rose Mary do not fall under the category of "good parent." Rex and Rose Mary do not uphold
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The View from Castle Rock The book The View from Castle Rock is about the author Alice Munro, with her maiden name Alice Laidlaw who is learning about her heritage and her ancestors from her past. She speaks about all her greatest adventures and important events in her life of a child to young adult. In every chapter comes a new family member. The novel mainly consists of maturity and family ties. She went from a curious child to a wise young adult, she is very fond of learning about her ancestors
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For young Jeanette Walls, the protagonist of her own captivating memoir The Glass Castle, life is much like fire in the way that it can be controlled for only a moment, before it begins to lose control and release its true wild nature. Throughout the book, Walls uses the motif of fire to portray life with her family and her own personal understanding of the damage and effects that such a life brought upon her. In my one-pager project, I used quotes to portray this evolution of understanding.
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Never has there been a perfect parent, or for that matter a perfect human being. However, people prevail through the mistakes they make. Jeanette lived a tough childhood, being faced with poverty. Nevertheless, she managed to find beauty in her life by her parents’ sides. Though Jeannette’s mother and father did not fit the mold of parents, they had provided their children with love and guidance which would help shape the children to become successful adults. The love that Jeanette’s mother and father
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precepts feeling ashamed of her upbringing and soon after moved to New York. When Jeannette asks her mother about what she should do when people ask about her parents’ situation or her past, her mom said “Just tell the truth” (5). In her memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
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