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Essay On The Glass Castle

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Everyone has some kind of hope for the future, something that they want to achieve or experience. “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, is the real life story of Jeannette growing up in poverty and her experiences as a child. Jeannette’s father was an alcoholic man, he was very irresponsible when it came to taking care of his children. Rex still managed to keep an emotional connection with his children, and this helped shape the Walls kids into who they became and kept their family together. Throughout Jeanette's childhood, she was always moving from place to place, and was constantly struggling to keep her family together. Throughout the book, “The Glass Castle” was mentioned a multitude of times. “The Glass Castle” was representative …show more content…

The life of ease that Rex promised his family did not come true. Rex dedicated a lot of time, money, and emotion into the glass castle, and he neglected his duties as a father. This lead to the children suffering a lot and fending for themselves, which is the opposite of what the glass castle represents. In the story the foundation for the glass castle is dug, but ends up filled with garbage. Due to the fact that the glass castle represents Rex’s promises, the fact that it ended up filled with trash alludes to how the promises Rex made were “full of garbage,” and how he broke them. The glass castle was a strong and meaningful symbol of hope; it represented the future the family could have had, and it gave them something to put their faith in. The glass castle was also an amazing symbol of broken promises; Rex assured everyone that his plans to build it would work out, but he ended up breaking that promise because the castle was never built. This connects to real life because a lot of people that still live in poverty have similar hopes for the future, and some of them will rise from it and succeed just like Jeannette. At the same time, a lot of people will fail even though they will try to rise from their poverty, which is why it also represents broken promises in real life. The glass castle was an amazing symbol for hope and broken promises, it is possible that if Rex dedicated himself, and did some things differently it

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