“The Glass Castle” The Glass Castle was a memoir that takes you on a very detailed journey of the events that occurred in Janette Walls life. In her lifetime her family faced many challenges and went through, what some might call, abnormal circumstances. Over an extended period of time she was homeless, hungry, and often socially isolated from her surrounding environment. The conditions the Wall’s children had to endure throughout the book were harsh and unfair. Jeannette and her siblings were often denied the basic necessities of food, water, warmth and rest. This brings me to the introduction of “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.” Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs,
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In Maslow’s second edition book of “Motivation and Personality”, he makes the following statement; “The core of the description of love must be subjective or phenomenological rather than objective or behavioral. No description, no words can ever communicate the full quality of the love experience to one who has himself never felt it” (Maslow 1970). This observation by Maslow expresses his ideas of how strong love can be between two people. By withholding such a strong emotion, it is easy to be blindsided to what may be a good or bad influence in your life. Rex and Rosemary’s love for each other were in many ways toxic for each other, but most certainly detrimental for the kids. Rex was not a stable man and often caused chaos within the Walls’s family, so much chaos that Jeanette told her mother that she should leave her father. Jeanette chose to explain the benefits the family would be able to receive from the government if Rosemary left Rex, yet her mother still refused. “Mom wouldn’t hear of it. Welfare, she said would cause irreparable psychological damage to us kids. “You can be hungry every now and then, but once you eat, you’re okay” (Walls 188). From this example alone, you can see that Rex and Rosemary’s love for each other provided belongingness in their hearts, but anarchy for the lives of them and their children which more than likely prompted an extra element in the impulse of the Walls children to leave
In Maslow’s second edition book of “Motivation and Personality”, he makes the following statement; “The core of the description of love must be subjective or phenomenological rather than objective or behavioral. No description, no words can ever communicate the full quality of the love experience to one who has himself never felt it” (Maslow 1970). This observation by Maslow expresses his ideas of how strong love can be between two people. By withholding such a strong emotion, it is easy to be blindsided to what may be a good or bad influence in your life. Rex and Rosemary’s love for each other were in many ways toxic for each other, but most certainly detrimental for the kids. Rex was not a stable man and often caused chaos within the Walls’s family, so much chaos that Jeanette told her mother that she should leave her father. Jeanette chose to explain the benefits the family would be able to receive from the government if Rosemary left Rex, yet her mother still refused. “Mom wouldn’t hear of it. Welfare, she said would cause irreparable psychological damage to us kids. “You can be hungry every now and then, but once you eat, you’re okay” (Walls 188). From this example alone, you can see that Rex and Rosemary’s love for each other provided belongingness in their hearts, but anarchy for the lives of them and their children which more than likely prompted an extra element in the impulse of the Walls children to leave