Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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Many people believe that early literacy is strongly linked to long-term growth and is a predictor of future achievements. That’s why every educated parent exposes their children as early as they can to literacy and helps them stay ahead of other children. In The Glass Castle, a memoir about the financial and familial struggles of the Walls family, Jeannette Walls reflects upon her childhood with eccentric parents and how she grew up with her alcoholic father, Rex Wall, a careless and stubborn mother, Rose Mary, and her two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and one brother, Brian. However, if we take a closer look, despite the fact that Jeannette and her siblings were raised in harsh and rough environments, they were also living in a thriving intellectual …show more content…

In other words, Kwik wants to say that reading can give you the passion and courage to move forward through which you can unlock all your limits someone has put on you. Through reading, one can escape from one's world to another, which can help one to be focused and dedicated in one's life. (L)In the memoir, The Glass Castle, it can also be seen that reading books and early literacy lead Jeannette to her goal as she was hard working. After graduating from Barnard University, Jeannette got her full time job on the magazine she was working for two days a week and she loved that job, she said, “I loved my new job even more than I loved my Park Avenue” (270). E)She started reporting and doing work in the newspaper from the school as she has a passion for reading and writing which has developed from her childhood. She escaped from Welch and went to New York as she wanted to move forward in her journalism career. The early literacy and education Jeannette’s parents provided helped her to create her love for reading and writing, which at the end she uses as a way to get this

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