The Chest of Broken Glass - Original Writing
John had lived all alone ever since his wife died. He had worked hard
as a tailor all his life, but misfortune had left him penniless, and
now he was so old he could no longer work for himself. His hands
trembled too much to thread a needle, and his vision had blurred too
much for him to make a straight stitch. He had three sons, but they
were all grown and married now, and they were so busy with their own
lives, they only had time to stop by and eat dinner with their father
once a week.
Gradually the old man grew more and more feeble, and his sons came by
to see him less and less.“They don’t want to be around me at all now,”
he told himself, “because they’re afraid I’ll become a burden.” He
stayed up all night worrying what would become of him, until at last
he thought of a plan.
The next morning he went to see his friend the carpenter, and asked
him to make a large chest. Then he went to see his friend the
locksmith, and asked him to give him an old lock. Finally he went to
see his friend the glassblower , and asked him for all the old broken
pieces of glass he had.
The old man took the chest home, filled it to the top with broken
glass, locked up tight, and put it beneath his kitchen table. The next
time his sons came for dinner, they bumped their feet against it.
“What’s in this chest?” they asked, looking under the table.
“Oh, nothing,” the old man replied, “just some things I’ve been
saving.”
His sons nudged it and was surprized how heavy it was. They kicked it
and heard a rattling inside.
“It must be full of all the gold he’s saved over the years,” they
whispered to one another.
So they talked it over and realized they needed to guard the treasure.
They decided to take turns living with the old man, and that way they
Addressing his lover, he renounces the promise he made last night that he would love her and her alone.
Jeannette Walls has lived a life that many of us probably never will, the life of a migrant. The majority of her developmental years were spent moving to new places, sometimes just picking up and skipping town overnight. Frugality was simply a way of life for the Walls. Their homes were not always in perfect condition but they continued with their lives. With a brazen alcoholic and chain-smoker of a father and a mother who is narcissistic and wishes her children were not born so that she could have been a successful artist, Jeannette did a better job of raising herself semi-autonomously than her parents did if they had tried. One thing that did not change through all that time was the love she had for her mother, father, brother and sisters. The message that I received from reading this memoir is that family has a strong bond that will stay strong in the face of adversity.
treated him as a friend. However now, it is hard for them to go back
Rex Walls While growing up in life, children need their parents to teach them and lead them on the path to a successful future. In the Glass Castle Rex Walls, Jeannette’s father, neglects to take care of his duties as a father figure in Jeannette’s life. In the same way, he teaches her to be strong and independent at a very young age. As we read through the story, we see the special relationship that Jeannette shares with her father. Even though he, in many instances, failed to protect his children, refused to take responsibility for them, and even stole from them, Jeannette still loved him until his death for two reasons: one, for his ability to make her feel special, and two, because he is a never-ending source of inspiration.
The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is a true story memoir, which introducing family which consists of four children, a neglectful mother and an alcoholic father. This family is constantly confined by poverty and foolish decision making on the part of the parents (reword this it sounds awkward). Despite these obstacles, Jeannette Walls is able to progress forward and to be successful, thus proving that she indeed is the “fittest of all”. She proves that she is the fittest of all because of her ability to survive life and death situations, her ability to adapt without her parent’s, and her ability to remain determined in trying to achieve her goals.
The Glass Castle was overall very strange. Written by Jeannette Walls in her point of view, this book is her memoir that she wrote to share her story with the rest of the world. It won the 2005 Elle Readers’ Prize and the 2006 American Library Association Alex Award. The title comes from an unkempt promise from Jeannette’s father, but rather than seeing it as a letdown, Jeannette remembers it as a hope that things will get better, a trait she must have received from her mother. While The Glass Castle focuses mainly on her immediate family, she later wrote another book, Half Broke Horses, about her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith.
In today’s society not many people realize that they are thankful to wake up and live another day. Just imagine being lost at night in an area you are completely unfamiliar with. Imagine it being cold, and you having no clothing. You don’t have any money and you are starving. Now, all your ears hear are the screams of the one’s around you being killed. To add to the torture, you are unable to control your next move, nor the next. There is constant death, starvation, and suffering happening all around you, but you cannot do anything to help the situation besides fending for yourself to survive. This is the devastating and cruel world that Chanrithy Him’s When Broken Glass Floats introduces to its readers.
The lacking of a positive male role model can be very troublesome for any family; especially during the mid-thirties. Prior to the Second World War, women did not have significant roles in the workforce and depended on their husbands or fathers to provide for them financially. There were limited government assistance programs during the era of The Great Depression, and it was up to the families to provide for themselves. The absence of Mr. Wingfield placed enormous strains on the physical as well as mental wellbeing of his family. The effects the abandonment of their father had on the Wingfield family from Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie are undeniable.
If we take a look at the different symbols used throughout the play, I think that the most important one when it comes to escape is the fire escape. It is in the center from the very beginning, when Tom makes his opening addressing to the audience from it. To understand the role of the fire escape one has to see that it serves a different purpose for each of the characters. In general we can say that it represents the borderline between freedom and imprisonment. Apart from this, the different characters see it in different ways. For Tom, the fire escape is an opportunity to get away from the apartment and his nagging mother. For Amanda, on the other hand, it's a door through which gentleman callers for Laura can come into their apartment / into their world. For Laura, even though she's been outside, it's the border between the safe and the dangerous, between the known and the unknown.
really a place for someone like him and his mind rebelled. Lastly you can see
The book The Glass Castle is written by Jeanette Walls, which details her unconventional childhood growing up with an alcoholic father and a mother who seems to not want the responsibility of raising a family. In The Glass Castle, published in 2005, Walls seems to reveals the intimate details of her upbringing within a dysfunctional yet loving family. Due to the fact that it is, a first-person point of view can effectively prove through storytelling and it can also have limitations to it. When a text is in first person point of view in general, certain opinions can be left out and may influence the reader's bias. A bias is a perspective/opinion. If The Glass Castle were told as an autobiography as opposed to a memoir, the story would have been more efficient in storytelling.
Generally when some one writes a play they try to elude some deeper meaning or insight in it. Meaning about one's self or about life as a whole. Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is no exception the insight Williams portrays is about himself. Being that this play establishes itself as a memory play Williams is giving the audience a look at his own life, but being that the play is memory some things are exaggerated and these exaggerations describe the extremity of how Williams felt during these moments (Kirszner and Mandell 1807). The play centers itself on three characters. These three characters are: Amanda Wingfield, the mother and a women of a great confusing nature; Laura Wingfield, one who is slightly crippled and lets that make her extremely self conscious; and Tom Wingfield, one who feels trapped and is looking for a way out (Kirszner and Mandell 1805-06). Williams' characters are all lost in a dreamy state of illusion or escape wishing for something that they don't have. As the play goes from start to finish, as the events take place and the play progresses each of the characters undergoes a process, a change, or better yet a transition. At the beginning of each characters role they are all in a state of mind which causes them to slightly confuse what is real with what is not, by failing to realize or refusing to see what is illusioned truth and what is whole truth. By the end of the play each character moves out of this state of dreamy not quite factual reality, and is better able to see and face facts as to the way things are, however not all the characters have completely emerged from illusion, but all have moved from the world of dreams to truth by a whole or lesser degree.
fact that Jim did im fact turn out to be engaged. I guess that I
to quit school without a high school diploma. He has such little time left in high school and there are so
Tehen all of a sudden out of nowhere this former friend is never spoken again