...Maureen’s Struggle When you are in a big family where is normally a sibling that grows up differently from all the others. They might look different or act different. It all depends on how you grow up. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Maureen is the youngest out of the four siblings. Maureen turns out differently because she did not get enough attention. She grew up when the family was at their lowest. Maureen’s life was turbulent even before she was born. When they were on the way to Battle Mt. Dad and Dom got into a fight about how many months mom had been pregnant. Mom said, “I always carry children longer than most women!” (42). Mom got so angry that she bolted out of the car and ran into the darkness. “Dad...
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...Review of “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls is an intriguing story of Walls’ family and their experiences. Through Jeannette’s story as both the narrator and the protagonist in the story, the actual state of Walls’ family is vividly described. Through the eyes of Jeannette, the reader finally shares the troubles of Walls family, where the parents are less concerned about the children. Jeanette herself is rendering the burden and responsibility of taking care of her siblings on her shoulders. In conjunction with the other Walls (Jeannette’s siblings), the theme of the story is relinquished while at the same time developing the character of Jeannette. This context will embark on describing the Walls from a family’s point of view while at the same time highlighting their attachment styles. Right from the beginning of the story, the immediate surroundings of the Walls Family is disgusting. It clearly portrays negligence which is symbolic throughout the story as portrayed by Rex and Rose Mary Walls. Though Rex is a loving and caring father, he is irresponsible. Despite his academic qualifications, he cannot keep any job when his family needs it most. Under his alcoholic cover, Rex becomes a completely different person (Walls, 2006, p. 25). Throughout the story, Rex lives a dignified life in dreams and illusions. This is the only way he escapes his responsibilities and problems as the head, the provider, and the protector of the...
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...The Glass Castle In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the author reflects on her childhood growing up in an unstable household. The theme of Walls’ memoir reveals that a lifestyle change results in the ability to rely on oneself. Throughout the The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls’ actions, dialogue, and thoughts in response to events in her dysfunctional childhood shows that an unstable childhood does not have to negatively impact an individual. In the rising action, Jeannette’s actions during the period of time that her father is not around, conveys an essential moment of her acquiring a role of responsibility in her own life. The author writes, “We couldn’t afford wood any more than we could afford coal, and Dad wasn’t around to chop and split any, which meant it was up to us kids to gather dead branches and logs from the forest” (pg. 175). Jeannette Walls is trying to explain her childhood with a father that is an...
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...The Glass Castle is a descriptive memoir written from the perspective of Jeannette Walls. As she eventually finds success as a writer, Jeanette recounts her dreadful childhood she faces raised by eccentric and egotistical parents. Rex and Mary, her parents, are very non-functional because of their drinking habits. Mom and Dad are very energetic people who push their kids, learing how to nurture themselves by feeding, clothing, and protecting one another. Jeannette Walls applies the lesson of self-discipline from her childhood in order to be self-sufficient in New York City. While not being the parent she wishes to have, Jeanette’s Dad teachers her to be self reliant when he tells her that she would be fine when learning how to swim. Jeanette...
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...There are many themes throughout The Glass Castle, but one theme that sticks out the most is forgiveness. The act of forgiving someone is sometimes hard for certain people, also depending on the situation. Some people forgive others and some just forget the person and move on with their life. In The Glass Castle there is a family consisting of a mother and a father and children. The kids were raised poorly because of the way their parents lived their life. Despite these kids childhoods they still loved their parents anyway. Forgiveness is shown threw Jeanette’s relationship with her parents, mainly her father, and then the other kid’s relationship with their parents, also The Last Song is a story with the same theme. Jeanette’s father is Rex Walls. Rex has always had a probably with drinking. Growing up Jeanette had always seen her father get drunk and not be able to control himself. She knew that he had a problem very early on in her life. No matter the situation, Jeanette would always stand up for her father and defended him. Rex would let Jeanette down over and over again. It got to a point where Jeanette knew she could fend for both herself and her father, so she chose herself. Even though all the troubles Jeanette went through growing up with Rex as her...
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...The Nottingham Castle 2 2.1 The layout of Nottingham Castle 2 2.2 The characteristics of the operation in terms of Input 5 2.3 The characteristics of the operation in terms of Output 5 2.4 The characteristics of the operation in terms of 4Vs 6 3. The London Zoo 7 3.1 The general introduction of London Zoo 7 3.2 Outline the characteristics of London Zoo operation on input, output and 4Vs. 8 3.3 Quality performance being affected by input, output and 4Vs 9 4. Problems and recommendations 10 5. Conclusion 10 Reference 11 1. Introduction Every organization has its own operating system. In this report, it will compare and contrast the operation management in two places – the Nottingham Castle and the London Zoo. Firstly, it will give the general layout and process of Nottingham Castle and London Zoo. Secondly, analyse the three main aspects’ characteristic deeply: input, output and 4 Vs in Nottingham Castle, and then compare with London Zoo. In the last part, finding some problems and giving recommendations at London Zoo or Nottingham Castle, and discuss the solution. One thing needs to be mentioned: Because Museum and Art Gallery plays an important role in Nottingham Castle, it’s the core attractive place. In this report, it will be analysing those aspects based on the Museum and Art Gallery, it is the symbol of Nottingham Castle that can respond the whole operation very well in Nottingham Castle. 2. The Nottingham Castle Nottingham Castle is located in...
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...The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tells the story of Jeannette and her family. Jeannette certainly did not have the easiest life growing up, but she may have had one of the most interesting. I enjoyed the book because the experiences that Jeanette and her family went through make for a very exciting read. These experiences are out of the ordinary and don't represent how a typical American family would live. Jeannette was born into a rather peculiar family. She had a mother and father, and two older siblings, but the way that the family lived made them peculiar. Her parents were not the most cautious of her well being. They believed that their kids should be able to take care of themselves, and that too much parental intervention would lead kids into becoming too dependent. This said, one can imagine how the kids lived. Jeanette and her siblings were constantly in dangerous situations since supervision was limited. Walls even writes that her first memory is being on fire (9). She was making hot dogs over a stove and caught herself on fire. Her mother thought that it was a good idea to let her three year old daughter cook hotdogs over an open fire. She was alright other than a few burns and was hospitalized. Six weeks into her hospitalization her father comes to "check out, Rex Walls-style". He picks her up out of her bed and runs out of the hospital (14). Anecdotes like these are frequent in The Glass Castle. They are not all as tragic as this, but they are all very...
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...with my friends, no one would guess that I was usually at home crestfallen without anybody looking after me. My dad was working 3 low wage jobs, my mom sewing at a clothing factory, and I was walking back and forth from school and home. My cousin’s parents were working too so we had no one to really take care of us. The adults were all working desperately to try to pay the rent for a down trodden house that could barely hold both families. Contrary to our pessimistic views, my cousin and I still grew up to be one of the hardest working students and one of the smartest in each of our classes. I recently read several novels that depict what I learned from childhood. Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, Janet Fitch’s White Oleander, and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust are all novels that illustrate the theme that unfortunate childhood experiences do not always equate to an inferior or desolate adulthood. In Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse writes about a girl named Billie Jo that lived on a farm during the Dust Bowl. She writes “The dirt blew down so thick it scratched my eyes and stung my tender skin, it plugged my nose and filled inside my mouth”(Hesse 143). Hesse illustrates how Billie Jo grew up having to deal with things like dust flooding into her house. She explains how Billie Jo lived in poverty on a dying farm during the harsh and dry Dust Bowl. The reader see that Billie Jo is struggling for life and is not hopeful for a new and better life at all. Hesse then starts shining a hopeful...
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...significance of the “Stained Glass dugout” in the novel? Discuss in relation to character(s) and theme. The stained glass dugout is a key feature in the novel, The Wars. This place was the setting for many chapters in part 2 of the novel. The dugout was named after the stained glass collection the Devlin had in the dugout, the most famous piece being the door to the dugout which couldn’t actually be closed so a canvas tarp was put over it as improvisation. This was where Robert met his wartime companions: Bonny-castle, Devlin, Rodwell who was a visitor. Along with Robert when he got to the dugout he had his junior officer Levitt and batman Poole. All these characters have important roles in relation to the story from the stained...
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...also the color of the suit that the Beast that Belle falls in love with, wears. It pictures Belle and the Beast hand to hand dancing in a ball room. The side of the poster that Belle is pictured on is full of a golden light. This probably represents Belle’s bubbly, light, and loving spirit. However, on the side that the Beast is pictured on is dark. The darkness on the Beast’s side probably represents his depressive personality because of his appearance but the smile on his face represents Belle bringing him into the light. The name of the film is also pictured right in the middle of the poster. “Beauty and the Beast” is captioned in beautiful gold letters with a blue background, again the theme of gold and blue is mentioned. Lastly, In the bottom left corner a beautiful red rose in a glass case is pictured along with a talking clock, candle stick, feather duster, tea pot and tea cup. This provides a sense of magic to the audience. The producers of this poster blatantly wanted to target families and young children. Children would be attracted to this poster because of how bright and magical it is presented as and families would be more prone to take their children to see this movie because of the animation on the poster and the famous Disney name written on it. The purpose of the success of this poster was to ensure another successful film produced by Disney. Obviously, the success of the film The Little Mermaid this helped disney produce another successful film and poster to...
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...1) The Classic period is from about 500 to 350 b.C. In this period nearly all possible cultural expressions flourished: philosophy, politics, literature, music, painting, sculpture and architecture. 2) The Hellenistic period emerged, approximately, 323-30BC. Beginning after the conquests of Alexander the Great, the period experienced prosperity and progress in the decorative and visual arts, exploration, literature, sculpture, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, and science. The Hellenistic era experienced an age of eclecticism, a new awakening of the diverse knowledge and theories present in Greek culture. Instead of contemplating and debating ideals, logic, extinguished emotion, or consummate beauty, people would explore and analyze reality. 3)The Romans painted directly on the walls of their rooms, and also on portable panels. In Third and Fourth Style wall paintings, we can even see imitations of portable paintings - these are paintings of paintings, as it were. Domestic interiors were claustrophobic - windowless and dark - so the Romans used painted decoration to visually open up and lighten their living spaces. Technical elements of Roman painting include the fresco technique; brightly colored backgrounds; division of the wall into multiple rectangular areas; multi-point perspective; and effects 4)Naturalism in art refers to the depiction of realistic objects in a natural setting. The Realism movement of the 19th century advocated naturalism in reaction...
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...People face adversity in trying to survive, saving the loved ones, and accomplishing something. People face adversity trying to survive because they are put in a place where the vast majority do not survive, saving another's life can be adversity because the person attempting to save life must do what is necessary to achieve his/her goal. Attainments are not easy based on backgrounds and family wealth. Adversity is also a big theme in the book Night. Elie Wiesel was faced with adversity in the attempt to survive in Sighetu Marmației, Romania, as a jew. Elie along thousands of jews were sent to the German Border by the government of countries bordering German. From there, Elie was sent to concentration camp, where he was forced to be separated from his mother and his little sister. He was put in a labor program that offered very little food and a lot of beating along witnessing his...
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...of Progress Retelling nineteenth-century Latin America through literature The time period is the nineteenth-century, the setting: a geographic and cultural space once known as the New World. It’s not your typical account of heroes and villains, the rich against the poor, good versus evil, or princesses, castles and glass slippers. Although all of these actors play a fundamental role in the tale that is about to unfold (with perhaps, the exception of the glass slippers), the real story traces its roots to a time period plagued by significant socioeconomic changes in the way of life of an entire civilization. By no means was it a homogeneous collection of peoples, but rather a mosaic of diverse indigenous folk, African descendants, Europeans, and peoples of every possible mixed ethnic makeup. This is the story of modernization imposed by the Eurocentric elites, forever leaving its mark on the social and cultural construct of Latin America. Historian, Bradford Burns, in his work the Poverty of Progress concludes it was modernization that led to the destruction of the quality of life in the aftermath of independence movements across Latin America. The overarching themes of his book revolve around the wealthy and educated minority imposing modernization on the less educated majority: the indigenous folk, Africans and those of mixed ethnicity. As can be expected, historical accounts during the nineteenth-century also reflect this Eurocentric mentality. History of this region often...
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...University of Phoenix Material Literary Conventions and Devices Worksheet Names of Team Members:___Deborah Brown :Yolanda Powell; Joan Skeeter; Florence Ames; Amy Kennedy; Date: 12 Sept 2011 Each Learning Team should select two works of drama from the assigned readings for this assignment. All team members should contribute to filling out the tables and answering the questions for each play. Teams should be prepared to discuss their responses in class. |Literary Conventions and Devices Table | |Play #1 | |Title of the work |Significance of Title | |The Tragedy of Hamlet, |These plays were more over a small “history” of the main character and for this reason Shakespeare named all of | |Prince of Denmark |his great tragedies after his protagonist. | | | | |Identify |Describe |Explain Impact | |Major characters ...
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...She goes in deep on themes like drinking, abuse, and parental immaturity, but also on common sense and thinking for oneself. Since this is a memoir, factors like tone and symbolism are not leading elements in how the book is presented. Walls also includes a lot of dialogue along with her own thoughts to add to the mood. The novel, The Glass Castle, has one prevalent tone throughout the book: optimistic. Even though Jeannette has no reason to she always seems that things will work out in the end. Everything could be going wrong but she could still see the silver lining or the light at the end of the tunnel. So, after taking her style and putting it with her ability to be able to get her readers to be able to connect, Jeannette Walls presents a most tragic, but moving...
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