In “The Glass Castle” Jeanette’s journey of healing and recovery from her childhood trauma is conveyed through the many hardships she overcomes at each stage of her life. For Jeannette Walls, struggle has always been part of life. Everywhere in life, she faces discomfort,loss and unfulfilled happiness.She starts to become more and more affected by her family’s mistakes, carelessness, and selfishness. Jeannette is faced with these difficulties and she doesn’t allow them to guzzle, instead, she finds a way out. Jeannette’s journey from a thunderous and unstable childhood to stability and success as an adult. Jeannette can conquer homelessness, achieve her goal, and recover from her upsetting past. One of the first challenges Jennifer faced was. She cooked hotdogs for herself at the age of …show more content…
The kids have to dig through the garbage bin at school. The Walls kids have to act like parents because their parents don’t act like one, they act like kids. Rex doesn't like to do labor work or even accept handouts from anyone. “[Rex] could do any job he wanted, [he] just didn’t like keeping it for long”(19). He always makes excuses not to work. On the other side, Rosy Mary doesn't like to work either, but she still got a job because her kids forced her to, but she can’t even handle it because she is always late or never does her work properly. The kids have to do the marking and proud reading for her. Jeannette had to do babysitting and other little jobs to make money, which wasn’t so much. Lori and Brian worked for others to make money, too. This results in how the kids do the jobs that parents are supposed to do and their parents just stay home like kids making excuses. Jeannette’s journey from a thunderous and unstable childhood to stability and success as an adult. Jeannette can conquer homelessness, achieve her goal, and recover from her upsetting
There are several different social issues presented in Jeannette Wall’s memoir “The Glass Castle.” These issues include neglect – medical and education. unsanitary living conditions, homelessness, unemployment, alcohol abuse, domestic violence. violence, discrimination, mental health issues, physical and sexual abuse, hunger and poverty. Poverty was one of the major key issues addressed in this memoir.
American businesswoman Carly Fiorina once concluded, “If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.” In the critically acclaimed memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls pilots a turbulent excursion through the bottleneck of her childhood and dysfunctionality and flawed decision-making is all too common. Throughout this memoir the reader learns of the the appearances and disappearances of stability and functionality, discovers the theme of fantasy vs. reality, and determines how and why the familial dynamics of the Walls alter through the duration of the memoir. The reasons for the instability of the family are evident.
To begin the interview, she described her plan to move out of Welch with her sister, away from her family. Like Lori Walls, she also put in a lot of efforts to escape the house of the Walls family. She explained that she has always loved her father, but she slowly began to realize that her actual father does not fit the perfect image that her young six-year-old self sculpted her father into. A smile showed up on her face for a quick moment, and soon got replaced with a regretful frown. Jeannette Walls revealed that she has always believed and looked forward to the promise made by her father to build a glass castle, as a child. When she became more familiar with reality, however, she realized that the promise was never going to come true. By one point, the foundation they dug for the glass castle was filled up with garbage (238). By that moment, she lost complete trust in her father. Based on Maslow’s 8-Stage hierarchy of need, Jeannette Walls, belongingness and love needs were not met because her father constantly broke the promise between Jeannette Walls and showed that he did not care about his daughter as much as he said he does. This confused Jeannette Walls’ self-identity in the stage of ego identity versus role confusion in the Erikson’s psychological theory, at the age of thirteen. Due to the lack of care that she received from her father, and the lack of
The Glass Castle is a book about the Walls family. The mom is very homeless. Jeanette, the daughter and main character feels very sad and upset that her mother is homeless. When Jeanette was three, she got a terrible burn and was sent to the hospital. Once she was healed, her dad took her out without paying the bill. The Walls moved all the time for as long as the dad could keep a job. The dad struggled to keep his jobs because he is an alcoholic. Finally, they moved to a place in Nevada called, Battle Mountain. The father was holding his job steady there for awhile, so the mother decided to get a teaching job. After a minor altercation with law enforcement, the family had to move. The family was forced to move to Phoenix, mother had an inherited
The Glass Castle follows the life of the Walls family, providing insight into their strange, yet non-fictional lives. Both the book and movie portrayals focus specifically on Jeanette, the writer of the novel and the movie’s protagonist. The story starts in New York, focusing on Jeanette’s life as a successful writer living in luxury. She has a seemingly perfect life - until it is interrupted after spotting her homeless parents rifling through the trash as she drove by in a cab. The book and movie go into flashback, telling the story of her rough childhood and the ways in which she and her siblings stuck together to avoid extreme poverty and a lifestyle of nomadity.
People tend to have differing views on what may be considered child abuse, yet the fact stands that trauma can affect a child’s entire lifetime. The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls that details the story of her childhood as her family moved all across the United States. Specifically, Walls goes into depth on her most memorable moments, such as the neglect and abuse she and her siblings suffered from at the hands of their parents. Particular examples of these memories are when she and her siblings had to live off of butter and sugar, since their parents used up all their money on everything but necessities, or when Jeannette had to rummage through dumpsters to find what they needed to survive. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls,
Have you ever escaped something you were stuck with since your childhood? In “The Glass Castle”, the Walls family went through many hardships, yet still managed to persevere. Specifically the author, Jeannette Walls, and her siblings. Jeanette was a tall ginger and one of the middle children in her family. She often got handed the short end of the stick growing up, but that never stopped her.
More than half of American children have experienced at least one major trauma that leads to future struggles, such as alcoholism, drug abuse, and even suicide. In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls family children, Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen, are victims of abuse in several cities in America during the years of the 1960s to the 2000s. Rex Walls has caused many issues, such as physically and verbally abusing individuals in public. The family is always on the run from the law, causing them to have loose relationships, dangerous interactions, and no stability in their lives. The children have to live with constant change and mental abuse from their parents, while taking on the role of raising each other.
Most negative relationships tear people down, however the author of the glass castle by Jeannette Walls uses the negative relationships to motivate her to succeed in life. A now successful journalist, Jeannette Walls, describes her hellish childhood. She experienced being raised by her alcoholic, manipulative, and acquisitive parents. Her extremely dysfunctional parents forced their children to learn how to feed themselves, protect one another, and be optimistic. Resulting in her going to college and having a “normal” functional family.
Most parents when their child, especially a toddler, is in need would put aside their “hobbies” and aid their child in what they need, especially if it is related to a basic need such as food. However, in this case Jeanette was left alone at three years old to cook. It is moments like these that speak volumes to the struggles and dysfunction of the Wall family. The hot dog incident is only one of the many instances of neglect inflicted on the Walls children by their parents. Neglect and instability are common themes caused by the parents throughout The Glass Castle.
In The Glass Castle written by Jeanette Walls, Jeannette’s mother plays a crucial part to her development. However while it may be a crucial role, it is not a positive role in her development. Her mother always seems to find a way to avoid her obligations as a mother and have her life turn out better than her children’s.
In The Glass Castle, observed is the childhood of Jeannette Walls, which is permeated by the sense of no change being made due to her parents lack of will to work hard and provide a future for themselves. As a result, they attempt in instill in their daughter that there is no need to have a will to work hard or provide a future for yourself. Jeannette, however, serves as a living example to prove that there is opportunity to work hard in order to move up where it seems you’ll never have one, and to realize that pursuing the American Dream doesn’t concern itself with where you start, but with where you end. We see how as Jeannette grows up and matures throughout the memoir, that she realizes two things: that she enjoys hard work with a payoff, and that both her parents have no desire to work hard. Furthermore, she begins to tie the idea of making a change to create a change with her parents’ attitude towards’ work: maybe her family wouldn’t live in poverty and struggle to pay any bills at all if just that hard work was put in.
In the book “The Glass Castle,” Jeannette lives in a very poor family that is constantly moving from state to state due to the parents, who are unable to uphold the responsibilities of a job. Her
In The Glass Castle readers are given immense insight into the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of Jeannette Walls who, through expert storytelling, recounts what is was like to grow up in poverty and the influence it had on her future aspirations along with her family members’ beliefs. Rex and Rose Mary Walls, Jeannette’s parents, fought to suppress the typical American lifestyle and held the values necessary to implement the path to their dreams above all else. This mindset created a version of the American dream much different from the stereotypical one found in motion pictures and literature. “It became clear they'd stumbled on an entire community of people like themselves, people who lived unruly lives battling authority and who liked it that way. After all those years of roaming, they'd found home. (4.8.6) In the ending chapters of the memoir, Jeannette recounts the realization of her parents aspirations as they finally come across a social dynamic that fits what they were dreaming of for all those years. The theme of the American dream can also be found in the walls children who from a young age appreciated their parents flamboyant and whimsical nature but knew this was not what they wanted for their lives. Stagnantly waiting to escape while her parents
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” The Glass Castle written by Jeanette Walls is a memoir depicting the life of her unconventional family and her journey into adulthood. Throughout her life she has matured because of her life experiences. From surviving a fire to moving away from home and to the death of her father, these events have dramatically shaped her into who she is today.