The Glass Castle Reflection

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The book “The Glass Castle” is written base on a true story by Jeannette Walls. The book talks about the childhood of four children Lori, Jeannette, Brain and Maureen how they grow up in a problem family. The reason for that is because of their father Rex Walls likes to drink and gets in trouble for stealing, the mother is selfish only care about herself, most of the time they don’t even a place to stay and have to be worrying about each meal. How each of the children grew up in those situation and still end up with a pretty successful life.
How can there be such parents they only do whatever they feel like doing, most of the time living in a dream and not doing anything to make the current satiation any better. The family have to keep moving from one place to another to avoid police chase and they could only bring one of their favored item, the family have no asset and money. This is only from what’s …show more content…

What really touch my heart is that the children in the story didn’t just give in into the life style that was given by their parents and instead they were very positive and motivated to earn the life style that they want for themselves.”Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”(Wells 81)This is when the family was traveling to Muskogee and Jeannette refuses to come out of her blanket sheet. They didn’t hate their parent for being so selfish and irresponsible, they would try to see thing from a positive point of view and turn that into motivation. Jeannette is stubborn when it comes to admitting their situation and her parents. The Glass Castle is very good book in American it reflects the lower income family back at that time and shows a positive point of view how people should think or act in those situations. I would recommend it to those who didn’t read it

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