Overcoming Obstacles In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

In life, all people are faced with challenges and difficulties regardless of social status, racial background and desire for knowledge. Few people are given a greater number of hardships than others. How people deal with their circumstances can differ contingent on how everyone around them impacts them. All in all, what makes individuals effective? Success is a result of doing the right thing by learning from and overcoming mistakes and failures, achieving the goals set for oneself, positively affecting the lives of others, and being content in one's circumstances. A positive attitude is essential for success. It leads to perseverance, which in turn, creates achievement. In Jeannette Walls’, The Glass Castle, we learn of a family’s struggles and Walls’ life growing up as she traveled across the country living in unimaginable environments. The story begins with her earliest memory, which is when she was at the age of three. Walls and her …show more content…
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