The Glass Castle Essay

Parental responsibility is the principal to all families in the world. However, parental responsibility is not the same for every family, it depends on tradition and location. The differences in parental responsibility are very common between particular cities based on family’s situation and the city’s surrounding. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is an autobiographical journal about her life and her family. The book features her family and her relationship with every single one of her family members. She is especially close to her highly intelligent father with a passion for logic and alcohol, Rex Walls. The parents of Walls are regularly move from city to city because of the lack of security in parenthood and their failure to keep their …show more content…
The Glass Castle is what that everyone can connect with because of the prevalent point of the family. While a privileged city, Phnom Penh (Cambodia) has many families that have to deal with related situations that the Wallses deal with in the book. Phnom Penh is a secure residential city close to the confluence of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap rivers, which also capital city of Cambodia. Phnom Penh is a well-off area because of the tourism to the city, since there are varieties of places to visit that make the history of the country. The residents of Phnom Penh are mostly wealthy and crowded. Both residents of Phnom Penh, where I raised, and Walls family have parental responsibilities, but Phnom Penh is better even though parents there are stricter, because they are role models to their children, and provide …show more content…
They do not think of their children as their priority. At one point, the children have starved for days. Jeannette and Lori eat margarine from the refrigerator, and Jeanette states, “Mom got angry. . . . It was because of my and Lori’s selfishness, she said, that if we had bread, we’d have eat it without butter. . . . ‘It was the only thing to eat in the whole house.’ . . . ‘I was hungry.’ . . . She raised her hand, and I thought she was going to hit me, but then she sat down at the spool table and rested her head on her arm” (69). Rose Mary cannot even give enough food to her children. She is mad just because they eat whatever they find in the house, and leave nothing for what she has planned. They eat margarine which she has saved to eat with the bread later. In contrast to Walls family, parents of Phnom Penh always make sure their children have food to eat. Even they do not have enough food to feed them in the house, they will always put children first before themselves. They make sure they have at least rice to feed their children. They always make sure their children are full before they go to school or go outside the house. They more likely starve themselves than see their children suffer from hunger. Parents of Phnom Penh are always doing whatever it takes for their children to get all the necessities they need even when they have to work so hard to earn money. The necessity of providing parental