Injuries In Jeannee Castle's The Glass Castle

BANG! THUD! FLOP! The usually sound of an athlete when they hit the ground after they received and unexpected injury during the middle of a big game. While reading The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls went through adversity in her life so too must athletes who get injured in sports. It happens in sports everywhere: professional, college, high school, middle school, and even in younger age groups. Injuries aren’t fun, but that’s just how the dice roll. Those who don’t go through injuries are blessed with knowing that they don’t have to go through the hardships; however, they are also cursed because they don’t know the feeling of breaking your ankles in a soccer game, receiving a concussion during a football game, or even breaking your arm during

By definition it means an instance of being injured, the fact of being injured, harm or damage, and offense to (Dictionary.com) . But to a lot of people, it means broken ankles and broken spirits. By a lot of people, I mean sports athletes and sport participants. It is a natural occurrence like teenagers hitting puberty. They can’t stop it nor can they avoid it; they just have to go through it and hopefully they turn out ok in the end. Sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. But as the man says, it happens. However, when it comes to it, you have to take your injury, dust it off, find a solution, keep to it, and keep going. For example, in The Glass Castle when Jeannette Walls was a junior in high school, her and her sister saved up money and decided to move to New York City and live their lives and get away from Welch, West Virginia. Her older sister, Lori, moved and then Jeannette moved herself shortly followed by her younger brother, Brian, and younger sister, Maureen. Jeannette took a negative and turned it into a positive which eventually changed her life. Sure it wasn’t easy, but she found a problem, dusted it off, found a solution, kept to it, and kept moving forward. I personally believe that sports injuries can be both a positive and negative event for athletes. Positive by showing the best athletes in their respective sports that they aren’t invincible and showing people the ugly truth which is a broken bone or a concussion. The negative however,

Unfortunately like all the other sports I am apart of, basketball has its own fair share of injuries while participating during the sport. Unlike soccer, I have not experienced as many sport related injuries, but none the less, I have my fair share. Throughout all four years of high school, I still have to fight and take caution of my weak right ankle. It is because of my ankle that my basketball career has taken multiple catastrophes. For every time I land on my ankle in any that I see as a danger to my ankle, I immediately have to call myself off the court and miss valuable practice and game time. Plus, every time I step foot on any basketball court, i must have my ankle tapped and I must wear a brace. Not only must I worry about if my ankle will finally give out, I also have to worry about pulled muscles, strained back, bruised body parts, sore limbs, and even headaches from getting bashed in the head from an elbow every now and then. Finally the worst injury of all, being dropped dead tired and still having over an hour left in your practice. But after read The Glass Castle, I always think of a saying that Jeannette Walls’s father always told her, “ Things usually work out in the end. If they don’t, then you haven’t come to the end yet.” This saying has taught me that no matter how hard something seems to be, it all will eventually work out in the end and the good times