Luke Benward once said “If you don’t stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don’t have friends, you’ll never win.” In the novel “Shatter Me” Tahereh Mafi wrote a story about a girl named Juliette. Since Juliette was little everyone she touched something bad happens to them. Her parents were scared of her, so they sent her away. Now she has been locked up for 264 days. In the novel “Shatter Me” Tahereh Mafi uses some obstacles such as trusting others, trusting themselves, and overcoming the fear of their supernatural power to demonstrate the theme of there are times for people to stand up for themselves. While Juliette learns how to trust others, she also learns how to stand up for herself. Having super powers might seem cool, but for Juliette it is a nightmare. Every touch might hurt someone, so she does not have any friends. When she got locked up they put her with a cellmate, and she friends with him. At first she was really scared, but then she realized that her touch doesn’t hurt him. She began to trust her friend, Adam, more and more that they planned to escape together. When they were escaping Juliette said to Adam “‘Adam’ The room shifts in and out of focus, I’m staring at the window. I glance back at him. His eyes touch his eyebrows. ‘You want to …show more content…
Usually when someone is shy it is because they don’t trust their own abilities, and they don’t know how to stand up for themselves. In this novel, Juliette doesn’t know how to trust herself, but sometimes things happens in life makes people have to stand up for themselves, the author explains “My hands wrap around the gun. I feel him freeze” (Mafi 267). Holding a gun is really dangerous because lives are depended on the person who is holding on the gun, it takes a lot of confidence to hold and shoot with a gun. This time Juliette choose to believe in herself, and defend for herself when someone is trying to hurt
Just like Tom Joad, Jeannette Walls must learn the power of community and its importance on perseverance. However in the Glass Castle, the aspiration of leading better lives leads the children to unimaginable goals. “He carried around the blueprints for the Glass Castle wherever we went, and sometimes he 'd pull them out and let us work on the design for our rooms. . . (Walls 25).” This drive to lead more promising and fulfilling lives results directly from the abusive living conditions Jeannette grew up in. In this way, the Glass Castle differs from the unfortunately difficult lives of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. “No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. . . (Walls 83).” With this realization, Jeannette learns that she must strive to get out of the metaphorical
Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, has most definitely responded to Faulkner’s outreach, and responded very strongly at that. She has more than accomplished her duty as a writer. Her memoir The Glass Castle is one of the most honest, raw, emotion and heart-filled pieces of literature ever to grace humanity. In this memoir, Walls uses many various rhetorical strategies to fulfill her duty as an author and embrace Faulkner’s message. Throughout the book, every range of emotion can be felt by the reader, due in large part to the expert use of Walls’ rhetorical strategies. These rhetorical strategies paint such vivid images that the reader can feel the sacrifice, the pity, and the love of Walls’ story as if they were standing alongside Jeannette herself.
A warrior is a hero, a role-model, fearless, loyal, persevering, brave - there are few that are able to fulfill these standards. Yet Melba Beals, a fifteen year old girl, not only claims this illusive role, but cannot escape it. Through the journey into integration Melba acts as a dynamic juxtaposition, moving from a scared little girl to a fierce soldier, yet never truly satisfied with her position. This conflict arises from her personal, family, and religious values, the impact of integration in Little Rock, and her experiences during her time at Central High. The title Warriors Don't Cry is employed as a command as well as a way of life and later a regret as this memoir progresses.
She stopped letting me sleep on the bottom bunk; she began to tease me about my fears.” (Evans 46). As 9 years old child, Allison is annoyed of Tara because she’s being tedious. Allison’s act might be seen as siding with her grandmother, and this directly explains that Tara went through the suffering alone, without anyone supporting her. This might be the reason why in the end, Tara decided to jumped off the tree, because she felt tortured and pressured badly by everyone surround her, and no one ever pay attention to her. Her best friend who she had always spent time with, giving her back to her, and stressed her to the point that she dare to jump. Somehow, we encounter these kind of situations in real life, and Evans are trying to make readers realize such tragedy really did happened in our surroundings. Frustration due to racial discrimination actually happens commonly. Those kinds of mistreatment that one’s receiving due to differences in race or culture indirectly affect his or her mentality and their character development. Evans wants the readers realize that such offensive behavior we frequently do – whether it is intentional or not intentional – affect other person’s psychological state. Readers ought to be aware of any shape of discrimination among our society and to select suitable actions when binding relationship with people from other
Individuals are prone to fear regardless of whether it relates to something as minute as choosing between clothes, or it can be something life altering, such as making a bold decision to leave home in search of a better life. In the memoir, “The Iron Road”, Al Purdy describes his fear as it relates to his future in his younger days. Al Purdy describes his life when he was just a seventeen year old boy wanting to leave home in search of a Job. He was quick in his decision to leave his parents, rather judicially so in terms of his confidence to climb aboard a train without the consent of his parents. The reader can feel sympathetic for a teen who is unaware of the potential hardships of life, when
Laurie Halse Andersons, Speak, published in 1999 educates the reality of which we must speak out to be heard. Presumptively the novel is set in the late 90's at Merryweather high school in Syracuse New York. Protagonist, Melinda Sordino, narrates her story as a sexual assault victim. We journey through her freshman year and watch her suffer to find her lost voice and overcome her negative convictions . While her persona is revealed, we see that the rape forces change on Melinda through violence. Several months of self mutilation and bitter silence, she finally speaks up for herself and confronts her antagonist. Melinda's introspection through her art allows growth and she becomes a survivor. Her recovery nonetheless was tough and protracted.
Everyone goes through hard times, but there is a reason some succeed and fail. Jeannette Walls grows up with a poor family that goes through tough times; her father is an alcoholic and her mother is neglectful and selfish. Walls shares her memories of her dysfunctional family in her 2005 memoir, The Glass Castle. In it, she constructs the idea that resilience is necessary both to keep families together in difficult times and to develop people for the hardships they must face in their lives.
This book shows the struggles that the main character, Precious Jones, has to go through after she was raped by her father twice. Not only is she raped, but her mother does nothing about it and just wants her to live with what ha...
In "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls learn how to grow out of age, be strong, but also there would be a time she felt ashamed. Overall, She makes it through by fighting and working hard to get here. Jeannette Walls is known as the bestseller novel in New York
In Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt the main character experiences a transformation from a dutiful daughter to a strong, liberated woman after the death of her husband. During Leila Al-Atrash’s A Woman of Five Seasons another female protagonist experiences mental rebellion as she copes with conflicting emotions about the man she loves and the man she is supposed to love. Last, in Liyana Badr’s novella A Land of Rock and Thyme. The woman in this story displays tremendous valor and courage when faced with unfathomable tragedies that change her life forever. The common correlation throughout these novels is the amazing strength, intellect, and courage each character displays and how each woman grows stronger as a result of the tragic events that alter their lives.
Many of us don’t have to worry about where we’ll be living in a month or whether we’ll be able to eat tonight; we have parents with a steady income and a life built around us, but not everyone is so lucky. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir following her dysfunctional family and their “adventures”. Despite many hardships as a child, she still manages to see the good in her upbringing and family: their loyalty to each other and the fun they did have together. Along with her older sister Lori and younger brother Brian, they manage to escape their impoverished childhood and become responsible adults, living the lives they hoped for as children. Jeannette Walls artfully captures her life story, showing the importance of resilience
Most negative relationships tear people down, however the author of the glass castle by Jeannette Walls uses the negative relationships to motivate her to succeed in life. A now successful journalist, Jeannette Walls, describes her hellish childhood. She experienced being raised by her alcoholic, manipulative, and acquisitive parents. Her extremely dysfunctional parents forced their children to learn how to feed themselves, protect one another, and be optimistic. Resulting in her going to college and having a “normal” functional family.
Independence takes time and effort. Some are afraid to grow independent, they are happy the way they are and don’t want it to change. On the other hand there are people that need that independence and want to make a difference in their life and make it soon. The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeanette Walls. The book is about a family that has a hard life and struggles to get by, moving from place to place and sometimes not even having any shelter to protect them. The kids in the book, Lori, Jeanette, Brian, and Maureen realize that there is a better life they can have and work for. Jeanette, the main protagonist, has a hard life, but she learns to preserver through it. Her experiences have taught her to become more independent.
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If you have ever known a truly shy child, you probably know how difficult being shy can be for that child. It can be very painful to see a shy child “desperately wanting to be accepted by other children yet not knowing what to do to gain their approval, or else too frightened to take the risk of trying to reach out to them” (Zimbardo, 1981, p. 4). A women expresses difficulty with having been a shy child: Growing up is painful at best, but excruciating for the shy. When others could not understand the reason for my lack of zest for life, I knew all along that my shyness was the real problem. I was terribly envious of anyone who seemed comfortable with people. Anyone who could express their thoughts verbally . . . (Zimbardo, 1981, p. 4).