How much did you depend on your parents growing up? The guidance and assistance-or lack thereof-provided by parents for their child can affect the child’s morals, values, and what they do with their life. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls and her siblings grew up surrounded by alcoholism, poverty, and abuse-physical, sexual, and emotional-while their parents were unhelpful when it came to providing for the needs of their children. The way a child thinks and acts depends greatly on how well the parents provide for their child’s physical and mental needs. The Walls family consisted of four children-Lori, Brian, Jeannette, and Maureen. Their parents, Rex and Rose Mary, pushed their children to be self-sufficient from
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In the Walls family, the three eldest children-Lori, Jeannette, and Brian-all ended up living good lives, both financially and emotionally. They realized they didn’t want to be like their parents, and that drove them to try to live better lives. However, the lack of parental guidance while the children were growing up took its toll on the youngest child, Maureen. After moving to New York and then later moving back in with her parents, she fell into the habits of drugs, alcohol, and smoking. Soon after these habits began, Maureen stabbed her mother; although it was not fatal, Maureen had to spend a year in a hospital. Shortly after being released, she moved to California. The Walls family is a perfect example of what can happen if parents refuse to support and supply for their family. In situations similar to the Walls’, children can grow up surrounded by alcoholism, poverty, drug addictions, and abuse-emotional, physical, and sexual. The amount of emotional strain this can do to a person-much less a child-can be overwhelming, and can push someone into falling into similar habits that their parents had. Despite that, in the end, no matter how terrible an upbringing and how horribly a child was treated, it’s up to them whether or not they want to turn out like their parents or be the exact
In the Walls family, the three eldest children-Lori, Jeannette, and Brian-all ended up living good lives, both financially and emotionally. They realized they didn’t want to be like their parents, and that drove them to try to live better lives. However, the lack of parental guidance while the children were growing up took its toll on the youngest child, Maureen. After moving to New York and then later moving back in with her parents, she fell into the habits of drugs, alcohol, and smoking. Soon after these habits began, Maureen stabbed her mother; although it was not fatal, Maureen had to spend a year in a hospital. Shortly after being released, she moved to California. The Walls family is a perfect example of what can happen if parents refuse to support and supply for their family. In situations similar to the Walls’, children can grow up surrounded by alcoholism, poverty, drug addictions, and abuse-emotional, physical, and sexual. The amount of emotional strain this can do to a person-much less a child-can be overwhelming, and can push someone into falling into similar habits that their parents had. Despite that, in the end, no matter how terrible an upbringing and how horribly a child was treated, it’s up to them whether or not they want to turn out like their parents or be the exact