Parents Rex and Rosemary Walls in, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, seems to demonstrate permissible parenting throughout the memoir. Out of the 4 parenting paradigms the Walls reside well within the permissive category with Rex showing “non-traditional and lenient ways” (Kendra Cherry, The Four Styles of Parenting). Jeannette vividly recounts when her in a drunken haze “took my hand and slowly guided it to the cheetah’s neck” in the zoo enclosure (108). Extremely non-traditionally Rex lets him and his kids into the cheetah’s enclosure, despite protests from the ‘normal’ nuclear family’s at the zoo. “Permissive parents believe in self-regulation” (Cherry) when it comes to the maturing of their kids. Rosemary firmly says “children shouldn’t
The parenting style that most represents Rex and Rosemary Walls in The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is permissive parenting (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). One reason why Jeanette’s parents are permissive parents is that they rarely discipline their children (Cherry). An example for this point is: “I thought Dad would be furious, but he wasn’t. He was sort of quiet… Dad had an arm around each of us,” (61). This show permissive parenting because Rex was not mad that the children burned the abandoned shed, he was just calm and lectured them kindly. Another reason why Rex and Rosemary Walls are considered permissive is because they allow self-regulation (Cherry).
One night Rex was drunk at a bar and met a man named Robbie. After Rex hustles Robbie in pool, Robbie wants to take Rex’s daughter, Jeanette, upstairs to his apartment. Rex knows that Robbie just wanted to have sex with Jeannette. He says to Robbie, “Sure… just don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.” (Walls 212) Even though Rex knew that Jeanette could handle herself, it is bad parenting. This proves that Rex Walls is out of touc...
Every day the safety and well-being of many children are threatened by neglect. Each child deserves the comfort of having parents whom provide for their children. Throughout the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls explains the childhood from being born into the hands of parent who neglect their children. Many may argue that children need to grow with their parents; however, the removal of children is necessary if the parents disregard the kid’s needs and cannot provide a stable life for their children.
Throughout the Glass Castle there is a constant shift in Jeanettes tone through her use of diction. Her memoir is centered around her memories with her family, but mainly her father Rex Walls. Although it is obvious through the eyes of the reader that Rex is an unfit parent and takes no responsibility for his children, in her childhood years Jeanette continually portrays Rex as an intelligent and loving father, describing her younger memories with admiration in her tone. The capitalization of “Dad” reflects Jeannette’s overall admiration for her father and his exemplary valor. “Dad always fought harder, flew faster, and gambled smarter than everyone else in his stories”(Walls 24). Jeanette also uses simple diction to describe her father, by starting sentences with, “Dad said,” over and over. By choosing to use basic language instead of stronger verbs, she captures her experience in a pure and honest tone.
In the book The Glass Castle the parents take a very laissez faire approach to parenting. Some people say that this is a good parenting style because it allows the children to find themselves and so they are not guided by their parents. This may work in some cases. But, in Jeannette Walls case she does not have resources to become what she wants to become. Her dad can not hold a job so they're constantly moving moving around. Also, this parenting style can be very dangerous Within the first page of of Jeannette talk about her childhood it already is a consequence of this Laissez Faire Parenting style “[Jeannette] was three years old… [She] was standing on a chair in front of the stove, wearing a pink dress…[she] was wearing the dress to cook hot dogs”(Walls 9). Already this shows a very Laissez Faire style she is cooking hot dogs in a dress. A few sentences later it talks about how her mom is in the other room singing not
Some might say that’s love and some might say that’s just barbaric, but I think it 's a bit of both, even though I will never go to such an extreme, towards any of my kids that I might have in the future. Rex always has an interestingly smart way of explaining things in order to get the benefits of it through. While the Walls family were on a road trip just as they always do the skedaddle, they took a little break in the middle of nowhere just to lay down. “ We had no pillows, but Dad said it was his plan to teach us to have a good posture”. He then explains how the Indians did not use pillows, “‘Look how straight they stood’’ just to instill some appreciation in them and good posture. Jeannette considers her father really smart (p;23). Prior to school, before the kids started school, Rex taught them many important and beneficial things, for example, he taught them math, so that they might be able to adapt to solving problems they face in school or outside school. He also taught them, how dangerous the liver of a polar bear is, he
In this world there are many types of abuse or neglect that aren’t always noticed and no one really talks about. We never notice that there are many different types of abuse because we do think that it is so bad that we don’t want to look into it. Social workers specialize in removing the children from the home because they have these things in their lives. Some parents would never dream of abusing their children, and some would never call it abuse. There were several different types of abuse present in the book The Glass Castle, even evidence that the children should be removed from the home.
When the topic of childhood memory pops up in a conversation the listeners would think the story teller is telling the truth right? Well, what if I said that the people telling the stories might not even know if they aren’t? When these stories are told most don’t realize the little bit of memory actually involved. So how much or it is true and how much it came from another inaccurate place? Where could something like that come from? Were Jennette Walls’ memories real? Does this affect you or is it not a big dilemma? Should these be considered There are several different debates within itself but the main one to focus on is are your memories even your memories?
In Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle, the permissive parenting style is predominantly exemplified by Rex and Rose Mary Walls. Based on the article, permissive parents tend to be very apathetic, have very little responsiveness, and have low standards (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). Rose Mary is apathetic towards Jeanette because she is very indifferent over what Jeanette is doing. In The Glass Castle Jeanette says; “I felt a blaze of heat on my right side as I turned to see where it was coming from I realized my dress was on fire” (9). Rose Mary was being alarmingly apathetic by worrying more about her painting than what 3 year old Jeanette was doing in the kitchen. Furthermore, Rex displays little
...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.
Could the dysfunction of the Walls family have fostered the extraordinary resilience and strength of the three older siblings through a collaborative set of rites of passage? One could argue that the unusual and destructive behavior of the parents forced the children into a unique collection of rites of passage that resulted in surprisingly resilient and successful adults. In moving back to Welch, Virginia, the children lost what minimal sense of security they may have enjoyed while living in their grandmother’s home in Arizona. The culture and climate (both socially and environmentally) along with an increased awareness of their poverty resulted in a significant loss of identity. As they learned new social and survival skills in this desperate environment, there is a powerful sense of camaraderie between the older children. Their awareness, drive and cunning survival skills while living in Welch result in a developing sense of confidence in their ability to survive anything. This transition, while wretched, sets the stage for their ability to leave their environment behind with little concern for a lack of success. As the children leave, one by one, to New York, they continue to support one another, and emerge as capable, resourceful young adults.
The Glass Castle is a memoir written by a woman named Jeanette Walls, who describes her childhood of growing up extremely poor with an alcoholic dad, a stubborn mother, and three siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen. The way Jeanette’s parents, Rex and Rose Mary, raise herself and her three siblings, is much different than what I see most parents raise their children like in the society I live in. Rex and Rose Mary, in most cases, let their children do what they want, and how they want, and in some cases, sort of abandon
There are several examples in A Thousand Splendid Suns of how parenting affects the characters in the novel. The way the parents treat each of their children and their views that they obtain play a vital role in how the children in the book develop. There are obvious reflections of the parents in the characters that you can see throughout the course of this novel.
Most often, in most families, children look up to their parents for guidance as children view their parents as role models. However in The Glass Castle, this was not the case but the exact opposite.
Children are the future of the world and need to be nurtured and educated in the best conditions. Thus, parenting is one of the most challenging and admirable responsibilities that people can experience. Parenting plays important roles in the development of children’s characteristics. Some people nurture children depending on their own ways. Others get advice from friends or books. Parenting can be divided into three groups: authoritative, permissive, and democratic parenting.