The chilly night air rushes around, a gentle reminder that it is midnight and the world is sleeping. Looking up, all I see is the vast expanse of night sky. The sky always seems to be hovering above earth, just out of reach, no matter how high humans try to venture. Instead of the black ominously swallowing up the world, it seems to sit contently above. The starlight cuts through the dark, creating an allusion of nearness because of the stars’ unmistakable glow. When I look up into the night I see the mighty hand of God, who created the heavens above. Contrarily, when author Jeannette Walls looks up into the night sky, a rush of memories overcome her. As she wrote in her memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette looks up into the sky and spots Venus,
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This is evident in the emotions that Rose Mary and Rex went through when they lost their daughter Mary. Rose Mary says, “He [God] gave me some perfect children, but He also gave me one that wasn’t so perfect, so He said, ‘Oops, I better take this one back’” (28). Through this passage, it is evident that Jeannette’s mother sees no value in life and that she plays off death as if her daughter’s life was valueless. On the other hand, Rex takes death seriously. Rose Mary explains judgmentally, “When he found her [Mary], he stood there like he was in shock or something, cradling her stiff little body in his arms, and then he screamed like a wounded animal” (28). Both Rose Mary and Rex care about life in different ways, which leads to arguments and upon further contemplation, it is clear that their religion is connected in some way. Rose Maryclaims that she likes church and really pushes her family to attend, despite Rex. Rex is the obvious drunk who is not afraid to shout at the pastor during the sermon (104). The differences in the core beliefs relating to religion and the value of life make growing up hard for Jeannette. Oftentimes, she had to choose between either her mother’s perspective or her father’s. When Jeannette moved to New York, she realized that her parents were wrong and Jeannette pushed away her parent’s contradictory beliefs and formed her
This is evident in the emotions that Rose Mary and Rex went through when they lost their daughter Mary. Rose Mary says, “He [God] gave me some perfect children, but He also gave me one that wasn’t so perfect, so He said, ‘Oops, I better take this one back’” (28). Through this passage, it is evident that Jeannette’s mother sees no value in life and that she plays off death as if her daughter’s life was valueless. On the other hand, Rex takes death seriously. Rose Mary explains judgmentally, “When he found her [Mary], he stood there like he was in shock or something, cradling her stiff little body in his arms, and then he screamed like a wounded animal” (28). Both Rose Mary and Rex care about life in different ways, which leads to arguments and upon further contemplation, it is clear that their religion is connected in some way. Rose Maryclaims that she likes church and really pushes her family to attend, despite Rex. Rex is the obvious drunk who is not afraid to shout at the pastor during the sermon (104). The differences in the core beliefs relating to religion and the value of life make growing up hard for Jeannette. Oftentimes, she had to choose between either her mother’s perspective or her father’s. When Jeannette moved to New York, she realized that her parents were wrong and Jeannette pushed away her parent’s contradictory beliefs and formed her