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
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live their life. Maybe their choices or actions aren’t exactly admirable or necessarily considered “right”, but nevertheless they defend them if anyone were to ever challenge them about their legitimacy. In Jeannette Walls captivating memoir, The Glass Castle, the reader becomes enthralled with Jeannette’s constant battle between defending her family and the greatness she hopes the Walls will amount to, and settling for the fact that her family is based off of false hope and senseless lies with her
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in which to succeed and grow, to evaluate the situation and develop plan for the family while their parents demonstrate that they love their children, their shortcomings as parents outweigh their good intentions. In Jeannette Wall’s memoir The Glass Castle, she talks about her childhood and life, her parents Rex and Mary Walls, her two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and her brother Brian. According to her memoir, Walls family is very different from others families. They are free spirited; moving from
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Children do not always need loving and supportive parents in order to grow up successful. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, not every child needs loving and supportive parents. Although they do love their children, Rex and Mary use very basic parental decisions; the children are very independent and raise themselves for the most part. With the right mindset, motivation and knowledge this can lead to success in life even through the hardest of times. Jeannette was at the lower class growing
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Mercedes Morelli Kristen Brady AP Lang November 5, 2012 Traditional Parents vs. Rex and Rose Mary Walls Rex and Rose Mary Walls were not the average parents to four children, but were self centered children themselves; leaving their children to suffer with harsh living conditions. They would constantly be putting their children in situations where their well being was at risk. There was a time when Rex took his daughter, Jeannette, to, “The Hot Pot [which] was a natural sulfur spring in the
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comic episodes a little more.” ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle things usually workout in the end" "what if they don't?" "that just means you haven't come to the end yet” ― Jeannette Walls http://kmo236.hubpages.com/hub/The-Glass-Castle-Essay B.This is a novel that is full of tragedy's and the sad truth of what Jeannette walls had to live through in her child hood. C. Jeannette Walls is author of the memoir, The Glass Castle, which has been on the New York Times best-sellers list
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There has always been much controversy regarding the relationship between parents and children through the ages. While some consider that parents are responsible for their children’s material upbringing and that they need to provide their offspring with the basic needs, others believe that parents primarily need to focus on the intellectual upbringing of their children. Jeannette Walls’ situation is self-explanatory when considering parents who would rather instill creative thinking in their children
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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
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Everybody has read at least one book that has impacted them one way or another and certainly The Glass Castle was not an exception. From the beginning The Glass Castle captures everyone and every sentence we read makes everyone want to read another one.The main character along her whole family all go through very tough and challenging physical, social, and inner obstacles that they must overcome to survive. This is a book that can impact a persons because everyone can connect to the main character
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accept us for who we are.” (Page -157) is important to the book and it can be used to teach people a life lesson. It is important to the book because Jeanette has been through so much as she grows. She’s been judged her whole life. In the book “The Glass Castle”, Jeannette said that she and her family would move place to place and never stayed for long so they never had the time to make friends but she would make enemies. Every place they would live, something bad would happen to her, boys or men would
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