In The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Personal Response

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, It shows the difficulty and challenges one can experience of moving around a lot. Moving for Jeannette was not just hard physically but also really hard mentally. While there is maybe only a few couple things that is a little bit familiar between Jeannette and I there is this one thing that really makes her character connected to me, and that one thing is having to move around all the time. In the Glass Castle we read and see Jeannette and her family move around all the time and never stay somewhere more than a couple of months. In the beginning of the book Jeannette tells us when she sees her mom in the streets of New York just wondering around in the trash cans and looking for food, “When I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.” (pg. 3) It is at this moment when Jeannette gets upset and starts telling us about all of her memories. Jeannette starts the book and her memories from the earliest she remembers which is when she was three years old, were Jeannette and her parents used to live in a trailer park in a Southern Arizona town. Jeannette tells us about all the messed up things that happened to her in Arizona, but before they can settle, one night her dad Rex, comes and tells them they have to leave this town and go somewhere else. “Dad came home in the middle of the night a few months later and roused all of us from bed.” “Time to pull up stakes and leave this shit hole behind,” (Pg. 17) Jeannette tells us about all the other places they lived at after they moved away from Arizona, they lived in Vegas for about a …show more content…
Although both Jeannette and I have moved more than a several times, we both can look back and see that all the struggles lead to where we are today, people who are chasing their dreams and wanting to be