Prompt #2 The way that I reacted when Jeannette Walls said, “We didn’t have food but at the same time, we were luckier than other kids”, was that she was finding reasons to be grateful. As a child Jeannette Walls lived in extreme poverty with parents who were not supportive financially, or emotionally. In order to cope with the downs of her childhood, Jeannette Walls, tells herself that she didn’t have it as bad as other people. A couple ways one could look back on Jeannette Walls’ childhood and
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In the book the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls has a serious of events and attention grabbers. I related to Jeanette when she said “I told him I would never lose faith in him and I promised myself that I never would” (pg 79). I can relate because my dad is my favorite person he probably is not the best person but he is my favorite person. My dad can do so much and does do so much but no matter what I will not lose faith in him. He might irritate me, make me mad, and make me cry but knowing no one
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Poverty is bad enough by itself, yet when one combines poverty with child neglect the children are put in a dangerous situation. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls family proves that poverty and child neglect can be extremely dangerous to the kids. Whether it is from their lack of food all the time or neglect to such an extent that they got into a gunfight. The children have been in these dangerous situations where they could have been injured or killed. Taking a closer
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were different? And what if you were on your own, just a child? That is what happened to Alyss Heart, princess and heir to the Wonderland throne. Frank Beddor, the author of The Looking Glass Wars, tells a tale of a woman who has to grow up away from home, lost and confused about her purpose. In The Looking Glass Wars, Beddor uses figurative language to describe and characterize Alyss over the span of 13 years. In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as playful, oblivious, and imaginative
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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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immediate family of the alcoholic. “Alcoholism and drug addiction affects the whole family- young, teenage, or grown-up children; wives or husbands; brothers or sister; parents or other relatives and friends.” ("Family Disease"). In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, her siblings and mother’s daily lives, health, and personalities were greatly affected by Jeanette's father, Rex Walls alcoholism. Some specific effects of alcoholism on families are conflict between spouses, infidelity, domestic
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The Joshua Tree symbolizes Jeanette’s life because they both have the opportunity to be taken care of and both of their lives are structured based off of their struggles. For example, when Jeannette finds out her Mom’s land is worth a million dollars, she states, “Could she have solved her financial problems by selling this land she never even saw”(Walls 273). This relates to when Jeannette is describing to her mom that she should take care of the Joshua Tree, but her mom replies that it would take
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Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, showcases different types of parenting styles from her parents, Rex and Rose Mary. Rex most commonly displays Authoritarian parenting, or a type of parenting in which the parent is demanding, unresponsive to their children’s needs, and gives no choices to their children. Rose Mary, on the other hand, is more Neglectful in her parenting, parenting which is described by one who does not provide safe spaces and does not care for child’s needs. Throughout the
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The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is a story of how her and her family struggled as she was growing up. In the book, we watch as the family overcomes obstacles in order to try to improve their life, many of which are created by the parents. The parents are irresponsible with their money, which causes the family to live in poor conditions and go hungry most of the time. They have to learn how to deal with alcoholism, abuse, money problems, bullying, and constant change. The family moves
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In “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls, Rex and Rosemary Walls have a permissive relationship with their children, although they provide their children with the “basic needs” (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). They are irresponsible parents and show “little communication” (Cherry) and in some cases are more supportive when they should be more cautious or stern with their children. Rosemary Walls is being an uninvolved mother by not monitoring Jeanette while she is cooking hot dogs instead
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