Responsibility In The Glass Castle

It is important that every challenge life gives us should be encountered and resolved. Challenges are given to every human being, whether it be a dysfunctional family or a uniquely vibrant family we must face all that comes our way. We must face the daunting challenge of attempting to understand, forgive and to take responsibility, which is brilliantly attempted to do in the novel The Glass Castle.
The challenge of understanding is very default. To understand someone you need to recognize what the other individual’s emotional state. In the novel, Jeannette and her siblings were faced with a journey and struggle of understanding her family. Their mom and dad struggled with them not wanting the responsibility of rising their family. The children

learned to take care of themselves and as they matured they moved to New York failing to understand why their parents couldn’t get an employment everybody else had. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even when their children offered they’d stay with them in their own place. It took a while for the children to learn that their parent’s style of living was to have the ability to do everything by their self. They didn’t want to use anything modern devices or they didn’t want to kill nature. In addition the children grew up in a modern era where modern devices were commonly used, but the parents thought the opposite and didn’t want the kids to kill Mother Nature. That’s why it took the children a long time to understand and overcome the challenge of not understanding their parents. Saying so, it is important to understand everything you go through.
To forgive someone that is significantly connected to you can be very tough. The challenges are over lapped on top of each other, which is tougher to forgive someone that is so greatly connected to you, but learning that this person will always love you is a thought we should all keep in our minds. In the novel, Jeannette was faced with the daunting challenge of having to forgive her father. Jeannette’s relationship with her father, Rex Walls, was not the finest. As Jeannette grows up she starts to lose faith in her father because of his alcoholism is affecting the family emotional and financially, because most of the time he spends his money on booze. It was hard for Jeannette to realize that she had no love for her father, but still forgive him for his mistakes and find a way to welcome him to her heart. Jeannette forgives her father when she tries to learn how to swim and her father dropped her into the water when she almost drowned. She forgives him and thinks of his purpose of inspiring her to learn. Jeannette thought to herself “I figured he must be right, there was no other way to explain it”. At the end of the story when Jeannette and she father meet for the last time she forgives him for “all the hell raising and destruction and chaos he created in her life”. She says “I could not imagine what my life would have be like- without him in it. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had”. Therefore, you should face the challenge of forgiveness, and as important to forgive and realize that the one who is greatly connected to you will always have affection towards you.
The challenge of taking responsibility is a very daunting task.

Responsibility comes with a lot of committed and you can never let anyone down. In the novel, the parents opt out of their responsibility for taking care of the children. The children learn to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another. The family lacks of responsibility and in contrast Jeannette struggles with knowing that her family represents a lack of moral responsibility. Jeannette ultimately chooses a more material and less idealistic notion of responsibility than her parents, but she also continued to try to understand why her family is unable to take responsibility for their own actions. Jeannette later on becomes responsible for her own actions and takes care of her younger brother and sister. As a result, she was faced with the challenge of responsibility and taking matters in her own hands. Responsibility is a daunting task that needs a lot of commit for and is a difficult challenge to overcome.
In conclusion, the novel The Glass Castle was an attempt to represent the challenges we face throughout our life. Every challenge should be confronted and solved. Family matters contribute to why many individuals have difficulties, but at the end we should know that they’ll always love us. No matter what happens we face the unknown and deal with it. We forgive many people who are significantly associated to us and most of all we take the responsibilities. It is important to always take action and solve the challenges we

encounter.