Dreaming Big In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

“The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls is an extremely captivating novel that really kept my attention throughout the entire story. It’s a fascinating story of growing up in circumstances that kept me shaking my head as I turned the pages. The Walls family is unquestionably one unlike any I’ve ever come across. The lessons and experiences that the children learned and endured were ones that molded their lives and established who they are today. Jeanette Walls goes through many descriptions of situations that she faced that people normally should not face. For most of her childhood, her family traveled from town to town because her parents always thought that they would hit it big, unfortunately her father was never ever to find a

Although we all have an idealistic dream of a perfect life, we should always see life how it is and not how you want it to be. Dreaming big has inspired many people into creating things like no one has ever seen;however, I believe in thinking realistically since life is how it is not how you want it to be and not all dreams go as planned.

Jeannette Walls is an American writer in journalist who found success in New York City, most notably writing a gossip column for MSNBC in which she details the effects of gossip in politics. She published her memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. The book spent 261 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. In it, Walls recounts her childhood while growing up in an unstable family with her father and mother, Rex and Rose Mary Walls, her older sister Lori, and her younger brother and sister, Brian and Maureen. Rex and Rose Mary could not settle down and constantly uprooted their family of six to different locations in the southwest region of America. Neither parent could keep a job and struggled to feed and put a roof over their heads. In the novel, Walls views her parents as irresponsible because it rarely seems as though Rex and Rose Mary genuinely want to work and make money to support the family. They thrive off their sense of adventure, as they drive all over the country in a rundown car, looking for their latest shack to pile their family into, usually without running water, heat, or indoor plumbing. Walls will tell the story of her childhood through a series of pivotal moments that ultimately shape her opinion of her parents and lead her to a successful career in New York City.

American journalist, writer, and magazine editor David Remnick once said, “The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy.” In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls the main character and author of the book tells of her crazy and adventurous life she experienced with her not so ordinary family. This quote relates to The Glass Castle, because like it states, life is full of both tragedies and beauty which is exactly what Jeannette experienced growing up with her free spirited and non-conformative parents. Walls is able to express her main purpose of the book that life is a mix of good and bad times through imagery, tone, and pathos.

Dreams lead to false hopes and are deceiving! That’s at least what some say. But throughout the dream unit we have seen and have read about achieving our dreams and not going the distance. It is worth it to dream because dreams give us hope and purpose, working hard at our dreams can have a great outcome, and Dreams can lead to more than we can imagine.

Dreams are worth dreaming. They give people goals and make them work hard to achieve something they want. Many famous and inspiring people we know today wouldn’t be who they are if they hadn’t chased their dreams. For example, Martin Luther King Jr.. He had a vision that race would not affect how people were treated. He opened the eyes of many people and took part in many movements until he finally achieved his dream, and now today, most colored people have the same respect as white people do. The Declaration of Independence is another example. Everyone who signed that document had a dream that they would be independent from Britain. They all fought in a war together and argued together, and in the end they won, and changed our society to

Colson Whitehead once said, “Let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things”. In the memoir “The Glass Castle,” author Jeannette Walls faces despair and turmoil as a result of her impoverished and dysfunctional upbringing. As Jeannette grows up, she watches her father Rex fail to reach his full potential and his dream to build a Glass Castle shatter as his alcoholism takes control. Aware of the devastation her father was causing, she begins to slowly lose faith in him but doesn’t fail to escape her destructive household and pursue her dreams of becoming a journalist. Due to her parent’s lack of parenting and being forced to fend for herself, Jeannette developed a sense of responsibility to care for others and make amends to improve the family’s lifestyle. Despite the turbulence and destruction her parents had caused over the years, unlike her father, Jeannette was able to find the strength to overcome obstacles, developing characteristics that ultimately lead her to achieving her dream, thus illustrating that adversity has the power to shape one’s identity.

“There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that’s here,” Tara Brach. In the book The City of Glass, the movie Divergent, and in today 's society, people are told that they do not fit into a group and are forced to life on the outside.

Look at people who died following their dreams, Martin Luther King j.r, president JFK, Michael Jackson. All those people died doing what they dreamed of doing. Was it worth it? Is a silly dream worth a person's own LIFE? In my opinion it is not worth it to dream if dreams are dangerous. Look at college sports for an example, some players are good enough to make it to the pros, but boom then they get a career ending injury and are left in the dust. So in conclusion it is not worth it to dream because it leads to false hopes, it is a waste precious time and some dreams can be

Her much of her early adulthood working to help her family. She worked on different jobs to try and raise money for her family as they were very poor. She worked as a writer and wrote poetry that later showed up in one of the popular magazines. This happened for a while until she decided to create a book. Her first book was published

While you were a child, did you ever have a dream that seemed impossible? Maybe you wanted to be a superhero, princess, or mystical creature. You imagined you had powers that could heal people, have x-ray vision, could fly, or could rule a nation with your knight in shining armor right by your side. Almost everyone has had a part of their childhood, dreaming about the things that they want to be when they grow up, or in general. Like everyone, I also had the same dreams that our parents deemed "impossible". I never really liked the word impossible, and that's why I decided to make my dreams possible.

Nowadays, people give up easily due to the obstacles that life gives them. However, when they dream, they’re most likely to succeed and have a better outcome. Having your mind on something, helps you to accomplish greater things; in addition, negativity isn’t going to help to get there.Moreover, when people are positive that they can do anything, they go through it all.

Dreams are always said to be impossible to accomplish. When most people think of the word “dream”, they think of something crazy and impractical. Dreams are something more spontaneous than that. They’re like red roses in a field of cotton. My dream isn’t something simple, but not impossible, like most. I’d like to make this world a better place, one person at a time.

We have all thought of one day accomplishing our dreams and goals. Dreaming big is the best option because you have the motivation of keeping faith in what you have set your mind up to. If you dream beyond you’ll know what you can do.

Dreaming is a very important thing in life.becoming more confident, already having a set goal and not just dreaming about it but making an effort on accomplishing your goals will change your life.Dreaming is one of the best ways to accomplish your goals.