Family Abuse Cases

The story also explains how Jacqueline’s life was changed forever. The story is extremely effective because it gets its point across by appealing to the compassionate side of the audience.

Jeanette Walls and her out of the ordinary family live their lives surrounded in pure craziness and poverty. Jeanette has been raised to be as independent as her age allows her. At age three she could make herself a hot dog and by the age of eighteen she had started a new life in New York away from the craziness that followed her parents throughout the kids nomadic childhood. Jeanette and her siblings Lori, Brian and Maureen live their childhoods with almost nothing. They were always wondering where their next meal would come from and where there parents had mysteriously disappeared to. Rex Walls, the father and husband was a severe alcoholic who spent most of his money on gambling or a beer from a local bar. Rose Mary Walls, the mother and wife was not better, never being to hold onto a job for long enough to get paid and support her family caused many problems for Rose Mary, Rex and most importantly… the kids. The kids all had the dream of escaping the prison their parents called home and heading to New York or California where they could feel endless happiness. The kids grow up with almost no parents, which forces them to become independent from the day they were born. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeanette's parents teach her to only rely on herself and never get attached to something you can lose, forcing Jeanette to become strong and independent throughout her childhood.

Firstly, Every hardship and obstacles she endured throughout her childhood helped Jeannette to become a successful adult.Jeannette’s parent were very unpredictable, her mother was self absorbed in her hobbies, and her father was an interminable alcoholic. Even though her parent neglected and gave less attention to Jeannette,

However, with her alcoholic dad who rarely kept a job and her mother who suffered mood swings, they had to find food from her school garbage or eat expired food they had previously when they had the slightest bit of money. In addition, when bills and mortgage piled up, they would pack their bags and look for a new home to live in, if they could even call it a stable home, since they would be on the move so often. Jeanette needed a dad who wouldn’t disappear for days at a time, and a mom that was emotionally stable, but because she didn’t have that, she grew up in an environment where she would get teased or harassed for it. Jeanette suffered so much, that even at one point, she tried convincing her mother to leave her father because of the trouble he had caused the family already. A child should be able to depend on their parents for food and to be there for them when they need it, and when that part of a child’s security is taken away, it leaves them lost and on their own, free and confused about what to do next.

Her mother is always giving her negative comments, never anything positive, and always finds something to make her feel bad about. Her sister is nine years older than Connie, twenty four years old, and still lives in the house, yet her mother always compares Connie to her sister, using her to make Connie feel bad about herself. Therefore, because of this abuse that Connie receives from her mother, Connie says that she “wished her mother was dead and she herself were dead and it was all over” (254). In addition to the abuse from her mother, her father is very quiet and is never really present in Connie’s life. This difficult situation at home makes Connie vulnerable because she is always seeking positive feedback from someone to make herself feel better, because she never receives positive feedback at home from her mother, and even when her father goes to pick up Connie from the mall, he doesn’t even bother to ask how it was, or what they had done. This is a big factor as to why Connie is so vulnerable in the story. Oates might use Connie’s situation at home to convey insights about people in the real world who also have difficult situations awaiting them at home. Oates tries to use Connie’s family situation to try and make a connection to others in the real world who might have parents who are divorced or any type of situation at home that is similar to Connie’s that might make life

People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.

Janet Scott is considered to be apart of the 2.5 Generation Hawaiian. Her father migrated by boat from Japan to Hawaii.Her father looked through a series of pictures to pick out his wife and he picked Janet’s mother. Unfortunately, they divorced before Janet was nine months old. Janet was raised being taught that her mother died in childbirth and believed this until her father's death when she was 22. During the summers, Janet was sent to work at her aunt's farm with many other workers. During the school year she had many responsibilities, like watching after her tiny apartment that she shared with her father, washing dishes, and doing all the laundry. As it may seem, she was raised very strictly by her father, all rules and jobs were expected

[Imagine having irresponsible parents that are constantly moving around the country] That is what Jeannette Walls went through and she tells her story in The Glass Castle. She is abused by her grandparents and is abandoned by her parents. Jeannette and her siblings eventually end up moving to New York City for a new life. *Hardships bring families together by teaching them to help each other out.*

In the beginning, the protagonist develops by being more independent although, she was strongly dependent on her husband. However, It is hard to survive in a world where a person whom you depend on is dead. Helen regrets a great deal for the loss of Cal. Later on, Helen was alone and had to do things on her own, "if the guy you got working for you never said a compressor, you probably don't need a compressor the girl said" (Moore 48).

There is Holling who has a controlling father, submissive mother and flower child sister. And then Mrs.Bigio whos husband died in war, along with Mrs. Baker whos husband went M.I.A. in war. Mia Tia who really has no family because she was adopted by the chalotic church from Vietnam, Meryl Lee who all we know is her father was not a honest business man and stole Hollings fathers idea for the new middle school. Lastly, of course there are the other class mates Holling does not really go into detail about that we assume have a pretty average family life. Each one of these families has a certain value to it; and at the end of the book the classmates find out that they really do have someone there for them even if it is not their direct family.

How she is disappointed with her dull life with john. As a result of her superficial tendencies she misses what's truly important in her life. SInce, she is too caught up in her

In the chapter “Turned Out (advanced), the wife reappears after leaving the relationship and they still continue having problems. “While I had thought that my trip to meet my father would give me and Jackie [wife] the break we needed to appreciate each other more and help put everything in perspective, the stress picked up exactly where it had been before.” (Gardner 192). After trying to give his

Without the bond of family, the Joad family would not have made it to California alive. The dust bowl was a very dark time for America, thousands of men lost their jobs and had to move with their family to find enough work to keep their bellies full. The Joads were just like any other Midwestern family traveling through the drought stricken land in search of California. Because the setting of the novel is during the dust bowl it portrays

A parental love growing up really affects you once you’re grown. Her character doesn’t quite know what love feels like because her, “Parents never really knew what was going on…” Her family is uninvolved in what is going on with her which creates a great emotional distance. She holds them in contempt for “... their naivete about who she is and what she does.” So she no longer cares what they have to say because now what they say is too late for her to accept, she becomes disinterested in

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.