“The Glass Castle” is a memoir written by American writer and journalist,Jeannette Walls. The memoir consists of the struggles and the big adventure Jeannette Walls had in her childhood traveling to many cities with her family. Coming from living in numerous cities and living in poverty with her family at such a young age, Jeannette Walls shows how difficult her childhood was. No matter how tough the situation she was in or what actions she took, Walls talks about how she was able to get through her struggling childhood and grow to have a successful life.
Jeannette Walls discusses one her earliest memory in her life which is being badly burned at three years of age. At only three years of age,living in a trailer park in Arizona, Walls states …show more content…
Rex gets a job in the gypsum mine and Rose Mary,the mother,is pregnant (38). Christmas time comes for the family, but they have no money at all after Rex gets fired from the gypsum mine after arguing with a foreman (39). Shortly after Christmas,the family moves into an apartment in Blythe,a place in California that is one hundred fifty miles west of Phoenix and two hundred fifty miles east of Los Angeles (44). Jeannette would face some bullying problems when being in the first grade and being judged for her looks and jumped by a few Mexican girls. Jeannette would retaliate against these bullies after she threw a rock at one of them and they ran off. Rosa Mary would soon give birth to her daughter named Maureen. A few months after Maureen was born,Rex announces to his family that they’re hitting the road again because life in Blythe became “a little too hot” …show more content…
They arrive at Rex’s mom’s house, Erma. Life did not seem as good in Welch as it did in Phoenix, that the living conditions are unsuitable. Jeannette claims that the air in the house smelled of mold,cigarettes and unwashed laundry (131). The most horrible condition in the house was the children being allowed one bath a week in four inches of water that all of them must share. Following an incident with Erma and Rex’s children, the Walls family was kicked out. Shortly after being kicked out, the Walls find a new home on Ninety-three Little Hobart Street which has no indoor plumbing (150). The two other struggling factors to their home was that the kitchen ceiling would leak whenever it rains (154) and that they couldn’t afford the town’s trash-collection fee so they put their garbage in a hole (155). Once the father would become out of control with his drinking, Jeannette had decided that she couldn’t stand it any longer and was making to move
Jeannette Walls discusses one her earliest memory in her life which is being badly burned at three years of age. At only three years of age,living in a trailer park in Arizona, Walls states …show more content…
Rex gets a job in the gypsum mine and Rose Mary,the mother,is pregnant (38). Christmas time comes for the family, but they have no money at all after Rex gets fired from the gypsum mine after arguing with a foreman (39). Shortly after Christmas,the family moves into an apartment in Blythe,a place in California that is one hundred fifty miles west of Phoenix and two hundred fifty miles east of Los Angeles (44). Jeannette would face some bullying problems when being in the first grade and being judged for her looks and jumped by a few Mexican girls. Jeannette would retaliate against these bullies after she threw a rock at one of them and they ran off. Rosa Mary would soon give birth to her daughter named Maureen. A few months after Maureen was born,Rex announces to his family that they’re hitting the road again because life in Blythe became “a little too hot” …show more content…
They arrive at Rex’s mom’s house, Erma. Life did not seem as good in Welch as it did in Phoenix, that the living conditions are unsuitable. Jeannette claims that the air in the house smelled of mold,cigarettes and unwashed laundry (131). The most horrible condition in the house was the children being allowed one bath a week in four inches of water that all of them must share. Following an incident with Erma and Rex’s children, the Walls family was kicked out. Shortly after being kicked out, the Walls find a new home on Ninety-three Little Hobart Street which has no indoor plumbing (150). The two other struggling factors to their home was that the kitchen ceiling would leak whenever it rains (154) and that they couldn’t afford the town’s trash-collection fee so they put their garbage in a hole (155). Once the father would become out of control with his drinking, Jeannette had decided that she couldn’t stand it any longer and was making to move