Analysis Of Jeanette's Glass Castle

Have you ever wondered what is the most important factor in someone 's life? Why do people argue and fight all the time? In the memoir Glass Castle, it chronicles Jeanette’s unbelievable childhood where she suffered from poverty and how their parents, Rex and Rosemary were not very organized and dysfunctional parents, but Rex and Rosemary taught their kids about values and educated them when they had absolutely nothing, but sometimes lack the tendency to show their appreciation. The children had been independent and had to raise themselves, for the most part, because their parents were too careless minding their own business. Despite the many instances that the parents failed to protect their children, they still loved them because they know …show more content…
The children learned a lot from their parents growing up and having to move around the country. They had to endure many obstacles to learning the true meaning of being a family. They had to struggle between the nature of where they grew up in and struggle with themselves trying to make it through his or her life. Jeanette Walls is a brilliant young individual where she has a good imaginative point of view while growing up. She doesn 't lose hope in her father when trying to make the family go on with his or her life, but sometimes have feelings about it. When Rex took the kids swimming, and he teaches Jeanette how to swim. However, told her “sink or swim”(66). This shows how Rex teaches Jeanette an important lesson in life that you can 't live in fear and be able to get back up when you do. This how to Rex teaches Jeanette how to swim and pushes her not to think too hard about drowning because you can try harder when you think that you can do it. Another significant life lesson is at the beginning of the book when Jeannette was 3 years old and gets burned for cooking. She had to stay in the hospital for a while because she was severely burned, and when she got home, she was cooking again, despite her getting burned in the first place. Her mother sees her cooking and talks to her that she can 't fear anything, but to get back on and continue what they were doing. Jeanette says, “Good for you, Mom said when she saw me cooking. ‘You 've got to get right back in the saddle. You can 't live in fear of something as basic as fire. I didn 't. Instead, I became fascinated with it. Dad also thought I should face down my enemy, and he showed me how to pass my finger through a candle flame…” (15). This shows how the Jeanette 's mother tells her not to be afraid of something like a fire. Lastly, Rex and Rosemary educated the kids while moving