Many people have a lot of pride and sometimes prides get the best of people Rex and Rosemary are perfect example of people who let pride affect their living condition.Many times they could have gotten help they needed but instead refused to accept any charity from anybody.Rex walls and Rosemary let pride stop their child from living a normal life.This show pride is a really big part in this story because it has the most impact on the character life’s. Pride played a huge part in most people life, in the glass castle Rex and Rosemary are perfect example of people who let pride get in a way of things they could have achieve. Rex and rosemary are two people who think they are good on their own and sometimes do not need help from anybody.The kids all their life living condition had been really bad because of Rex and Rosemary.if those two would have put the pride aside and thought of what’s good for their children the kids wouldn’t have goin thru what they had …show more content…
One time he wrote a poem and turn it into contest other teacher at the school question and i quote’’like the son of erma walls will be able to do a damn thing , dad got so mad and walked out a teacher had to come it and tell him he was smart and had what it take to get a degree.’’(walls 194). This show Rex walls had a lot of pride and did not want anybody comparing him to his parent or any way that's he’s like his
Being more engaged in his drinking, and less engaged in his word was one thing Rex Walls was good at. After neglecting this promise Jeannette, his favorite daughter, who always believed in him, eventually sees how awful alcohol makes him. Leading her to draw a end with believing in her father's word saying, “you will never build the glass castle” (238). Which then causes Rex to go into an even bigger depression.
Pride is something that is essential in human life. Due to pride, we are able to see the joys
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about Jeannette’s childhood experiencing many difficult situations. It is an excellent example of contemporary literature that reflects society. This story connects with social issues relevant to our time period, such as unstable home life, alcoholism, and poverty. Many of these issues, as well as others, are also themes of the story. One major theme of the story is overcoming obstacles, which is demonstrated by Jeannette, the Walls’ kids, and Rex and Mary Walls.
Rex Walls has a big imagination throughout the memoir. He has a plan to “find gold” and build their dream house, “ the Glass Castle,” (Walls 25). Rex Walls made that plan because “people were after” him and he needed a cover up. He used the Glass Castle as a disguise to keep the children fro worrying about why the traveled so much. Jeannette Walls believed there was a demon underneath her bed. Rex Walls expressed how the demon had “evil eyes with fire in ‘em,” to go along with Jeannette’s imagination (Walls 36). When dealing with kids, imagination plays an important role.
In the story "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst, an important theme is pride. Pride is what keeps the story going. The theme is expressed in the story in many ways. An example is when the narrator teaches Doodle to walk and shows the family. The narrator is so proud of what he did that he wanted to continue to make Doodle "more of a person." I think that this pride that the narrator has can cause readers to get angry. It was that pride that caused Doodle to die in the end. The narrator lost his pride when Doodle could not succeed and left him. Doodle died because the narrator ran away and did not help him. If he didn't let his pride get to him then Doodle wouldn't have died.
In August Wilson’s drama, “Fences,” a man named Troy struggles with feelings of unfulfilled dreams and extreme pride. Troy is unable to come to terms with his own fallacies throughout the play, and he fails to see the world through other points of view. He becomes prideful and arrogant because he feels he knows exactly how the world works, or should work, and he inadvertently destroys the lives of everyone around him. Troy’s pride causes him to believe dreams and hopes are useless in the real world. This belief causes him to ruin his own son’s dreams and causes his wife to despise him for the rest of his life. Pride is a harmful thing. Being too prideful can ruin one’s own life and the lives of his or her loved ones.
Rex knew that Jeannette was deserving of a better life than migrating place to place every once in a while and eating commodity foods. By pretending to make plans to build this utopian house for her, he kept her imagination and her faith in him alive and taught her to keep looking forward in life. However, as Jeanette grew up that did not cut it anymore. “What I was thinking was that you don’t have to go right away, and I’ll build the Glass Castle, I swear it. We’ll all live in it together. It’ll be a hell of a lot better than any apartment you’ll ever find in New York City, I can guaran-goddamn-tee that,”(Walls 238). After Jeannette turned her father’s offer down, he knew that she had her mind set on going to New York.With two of his children leaving him, Rex was heartbroken, but he understood that they would have a better life there than they would have by staying in
While having too much family pride can be harmful, having too much social pride can result in a lack of conversing between different groups of people. When looking at statistics, one can see that residents in the extremely diverse city of Los Angeles have managed to segregate themselves from others of different wealth and race. This type of segregation in which people prefer to live among others who are similar confirms that humanity has too much pride to place themselves with others who are different. Similar to this, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet shouts to his daughter, “Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face,” (Act 3.5 pg 200) clearly portraying to the audience that his social pride is too great for he would rather rid himself of his own daughter than to have a daughter who refuses to marry.
...life living with yet loving parents and siblings just to stay alive. Rosemary and Rex Walls had great intelligence, but did not use it very wisely. In the book The Glass Castle, author Jeanette Walls discovers the idea that a conservative education may possibly not always be the best education due to the fact that the Walls children were taught more from the experiences their parents gave them than any regular school or textbook could give them. In this novel readers are able to get an indication of how the parents Rex and Rosemary Walls, choose to educate and give life lessons to their children to see the better side of their daily struggles. Showing that it does not matter what life throws at us we can take it. Rosemary and Rex Walls may not have been the number one parents in the world however they were capable in turning their children into well-educated adults.
Jeannette Walls reluctantly wrote Glass Castle in an attempt to show that even those with very different backgrounds and cultures really aren't all that different after all. Walls wrote of ridiculous situations and her experiences while growing up with a family that lacked the regular structural culture of other families, which included qualities such as morality, integrity, and a basic knowledge and feeling of obligation to follow the law of the land. Her parents both held values that were unique to each one of them as they lived their lives strongly expressing, through actions and words, that the normal values of other people simply weren’t right. Jeanette’s parents, though unconventional, were just as loving, if not more loving towards their kids as other parents. I think the reason the family was so strange, was simply because of the parents’ values that they taught their kids. The values your parents raise you with can greatly affect your future, and who you become as a person; this is what I can relate to. I’ve become conscious of how the values I grew up on evolved into more of a belief system, if not a stubborn pride-driven ability to deny handouts or help from people. Add this characteristic of mine to the fact that my parents wouldn’t allow me to drive until I turned eighteen, the fact that I lived on an isolated
In many ways, he made his kids’ lives harder than it already was. He was always drunk and spending their money on himself. Rex was also always running from authority. This was one of the reasons they moved around so much. One summer Rose Mary decided to go back to school to get her teaching certification again and leaves Jeannette in charge of the money. After only a week Jeannette has given Rex $30 after being guilted into it. Rex swindles a man in a game of pool and wins back the $30; he does this by using Jeannette as a distraction. After this experience Jeannette feels betrayed and used by her father. When Jeannette explains to her father that the “creep attacked [her] when [she] was upstairs” her dad shrugs it off by saying “I knew you could handle yourself.” (213) After Lori and Rose Mary got home from being away for the summer, Lori and Jeannette decide to start saving money so they can leave their parents and move to New York. One-day Jeannette comes home to find out that their piggy bank had been broken into and all the money was taken. Later they realize that Rex had taken the money and when they confront him about it, he denies it. Out of the four kids, Jeannette was closest to her father, but by the time she moved to New York she didn’t want anything to do with him or her mother. Many events that happened with her father were very hard, but made her stronger and more of an independent woman. Her father
The Walls family consists of three daughters and a son. Out of all of the kids, Rex the father favors Jeannette who is the middle child only because he felt that they both understand each other. “ I swear, honey, there are times I think you’re the only one around who still has faith in me” (P;79). This shows how their trust in each other is compared to the rest of the family and it also shows their bond, their sense
In James Hurst's short story “The Scarlet Ibis” the author describes the life of Doodle and the relationship he shares with his brother. During the story he has some happy moments with his brother, but his brother is also very selfish. Doodle pushes himself to his limits to try to please his brother. Doodle’s brother lets his pride get the best of him and forgets about the wellbeing and feelings of Doodle. (Summary) Throughout the entire story the central message is, Pride can lead people to do terrible as well as wonderful things.(thesis)
Racism is present throughout the novel, “racism is a belief of characteristics and abilities that can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some are superior to others” (Shah). In the novel, the Walls family practiced only a few fine principals in their daily lives; it is clearly recognizable that Rex and Rosemary took a stand against racism (Rodriguez). They taught their children that racism is wrong and that you should treat other equally. The evidence of this first can be seen when Rosemary worked as a teacher in Davy Elementary School. On many instances, she demonstrates her impartiality. For example, “She'd tell the Mexican kids never to let anyone say they weren't as good as white kids. She'd tell the Navaho and Apache kids they should be proud of their noble Indian heritage” (Walls 71). This shows Rosemary’s drive and determination to get her students to have confidence in themselves, which shows her character. Another time racism was present throughout the novel was when the Walls family moved to Welch, West Virginia to live with their grandparents. Jeannette got upset at her grandmother because she was discriminatory towards black people despite this; her mother encouraged Jeannette to find her grandmother’s positive traits. Her
The family pride stemmed from the belief that the family had to keep the houses they were given. The belief that without these structures and land they were not really a part of the family they had come from. Yet, when the Colonel was struggling with the balance of trying to satisfy his daughters wishes of living in town, he figured he could buy out his other relation. However, this was soon realized as not possible since his relative Charlie also had the same pride in him as well. Then, when the colonel was realizing his home would soon fall into the Mississippi, he decided to trade. Nevertheless, his conscience stopped the deal from happening just as Belles Demoiselles Mansion sunk into the river with the Colonel’s daughters inside. The question became more pronounced of his conscience when he sought an answer of not cheating Charlie on his deathbed.