Family Values In Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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

As a kid I had always wanted a new computer, so when I saved up enough money and bought parts for a computer, it opened up opportunities to meet new people. Some of my closest friends aren’t actually so close after all. My best friend lives in Houston, while I also associate with people from Florida, Oklahoma, Illinois, California, and even Iceland. Though I may not be able to hang out with them physically like a normal group of friends, it’s been great talking to all of them. I’d say they helped me get through highschool and kept me from boarding the crazy train to