Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

“Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.” That small but powerful excerpt comes from the incredible biography “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle is a 269 page Memoir about the unconventional, poverty-stricken, and dysfunctional life of Jeannette Walls and her three siblings.

‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls, is a book of the trials and tribulations of the Walls family. Even though times had been tough and the parenting was not the best, at the end of the day they were all there for each other. With this tough childhood, Jeannette had, shaped her as a successful woman. Growing up, Jeannette learned responsibility, education and fearlessness all at a young age. Jeanette's childhood taught her all the things she needed to be a successful woman

People often fall into some sticky situations, but how they deal with them is the thing that matters most. In The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, she takes the readers through her life, starting at her earliest memory as a three-year-old, constantly living in a state of homelessness. Throughout the story, Walls experiences countless situations from her father being an alcoholic, to everyday school bullies. She uses a series of coping mechanisms to deal with, and sometimes terminate these issues. In fact, everyone of her siblings and parents uses various coping methods for these same situations. These methods may not always be the most effective, but people, including the Walls family, nevertheless use them to get by on their

What really is home towards people? Home towards Jeannette Walls was many different things and places. Jeanette Walls went through her life and made a memoir called The Glass Castle. Jeannete and her family had moved all the time and in countless states. They lived from all the San Francisco California to New York City.

In life, you will encounter many complex situations some of which you would hope to repeat and others you would rather never speak of again. Jeannette Walls wrote about the good, the bad, and the ugly in her memoir, The Glass Castle.

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls children go on perilous adventures and are given independence from society’s rules and dicipline as a result of their parents’ beliefs. However, they are oftentimes wishing they had the security and comfort offered from a “normal” upbringing. Living a stable, sheltered life with parents that protect and disipline me and a fair chance to comfortably raise a family in the future, it is hard to even comprehend why someone would risk it at an attempt to escape the unwritten laws of civilization. In a world where freedom always comes at a heavy cost and the future of a child is never guaranteed, and in a world where children have easier access to knives and guns than to an opportunity to settle down after a safe and fruitiful life, it is difficult for me to see why a child would not be taught to follow society’s fail-proof blueprint for prosperity.

The formation of character all relies on upon the individual. Identity can be formed by the general population one surrounds his or herself with, the earth one lives in, or even past occasions of triumph and disappointment. Jeannette Walls, author of the celebrated around the world book The Glass Castle, demonstrates that the potter that formed and molded her identity was the critical occasions held in her past. Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose beliefs and difference of opinion were both their condemnation and their salvation. Rex and Rose Walls had four kids.

“1,520 children [nationally] died from abuse and neglect in 2013 [with] an average of four children dying every day from abuse or neglect,” according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway in “Child abuse and neglect fatalities 2013: Statistics and interventions.” The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, depicts the harsh childhood the elder three Walls children experienced due to the choices their negligent parents made. The siblings’ childhood was unstable due to bouts of the parents’ unemployment, financial instability, and travels to new homes. The three siblings—Jeannette, Brian, and Lori—came together to survive against starvation from lack of food and to protect against getting abused by the people around them. As they grew up, they learned to support one another to

In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls recounts her childhood by describing the turbulent, sometimes strenuous circumstances she experienced each time her family moved from town to town in search of a new life. At each new school, Jeanette and her siblings struggle to find peace with their judgmental classmates and become victims of bullying several times. With little help from their irresponsible parents, the Walls children turn to each other, and they resolve to support each other through their countless conflicts at home and at school. Jeannette’s parents, Rose Mary and Rex Walls, take pride in their children but often fail to properly raise them; even though Rex hopes to become wealthy and eventually build a beautiful castle made of glass,

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls touched upon many topics including alcoholism, mental illness, and poverty. One specific topic that seemed to be particularly attention-grabbing was the possibility that her mom had bipolar disorder, or some other possible mental illness. There are so many people in the world who have some form of a mental illness, and many go undiagnosed. Some that are never diagnosed go through their life needing help or maybe even becoming a danger to others. Despite the bad reputation mental problems get, people are able to overcome their struggle and live normal lives with the proper medicine and help. The Glass Castle is one example of how mental illness is a part of many people’s lives.

"If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim" (66), Jeannette Walls' father told her before throwing her into the middle of the swimming hole again. She thrashed and flailed, sputtering water. When he held out his hands, Jeannette kicked, trying to get away. She knew he would just throw her back into the water again. She kicked and pushed water out of her way to propel herself out of his grasp. This was how young Jeannette learned to swim. She took this lesson and swam through the poverty, hunger, abuse, molestation, and mistreatment that riddled her life. In time, she swam all the way to the top of the food chain, becoming a gossip columnist contributing to many notable magazines such as Esquire and USA Today. In 2005, she published her memoir, The Glass Castle, which documented the joys and struggles of her childhood.

It would be absurd to believe that one is the product of their upbringing. It is, in fact, most definitely possible to have a successful life after going through a rough childhood. Phillip Bartlett states, “I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.” Throughout the memoir, Jeannette Walls constantly proves this statement to be correct. Despite the abuse from her parents and her forager lifestyle, Walls goes on to attend Barnard college and become a successful writer.

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls provides its readers with a personalized incite towards her past, a new perspective to her life and how the chooses she made in her past shaped her into who she is today. The novel is written in her perspective, this giving a full understanding of what she as the author is feeling, seeing, and living through. Non-the less it also provides an understanding of the other characters that became important in her life and what their role was in it. For example, a person Jeannette admired and even looked up to was her father. He is of course an example of turbulence in her life. Either his alcoholism, anger issues, or even gambling problems she still found a way to find the good in him through all the bad.

This January we, as a class, read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle really opened my eyes to what alcoholism is really about. Alcoholism is what Jeanette’s father had and it made him blackout and not remember what he did. This is what everyday people do in today's world. And some are sick and tired of it. Some causes that have occurred would be those people growing up in homes that alcohol was a normal occurrence. Alcoholism has a huge roll in The Glass Castle and it is important that the cause of it be found and how to prevent these from happening.

A trauma narrative is a narrative that describes an experience or experiences that cause someone to be destressed and cannot be incorporated into their memory easily. Throughout her own traumatic narrative, Jeannette Wall’s describes different aspects of her everyday life that showcase various levels of significance. She is able to show how certain life events impact her plans for escaping her current socioeconomic status and her plans for the future. The text is also able to tell us about trauma, poverty, ourselves, and our society. Furthermore, the text demonstrates the impact that trauma and poverty can have and how they can have lasting effects. These concepts help us to think about our own life experiences and situations and they also show us how to be analytical about our society. Lastly, this narrative is able to reveal to us the different aspects of a traumatic childhood and how important and impactful this type of upbringing can be. Jeannette Walls uses her own traumatic autobiography to show that despite her adverse upbringing in poverty and passive and unattached parenting she was able to become successful. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, shows the benefits and the value that can come from having a traumatic narrative. This is significant because it shows that an experience can shape a person, but a person can also shape the experience.