The Castle Essay

Alcoholism is an Addiction Over 20 million Americans are addicted to drugs and alcohol, are you one of them? Roughly only 11 percent of the people will receive treatment for their addiction. That’s nearly nothing. Jeannette Walls wrote the book “The Glass Castle” to show readers how her life was really like when she was growing up. Having a father that is an alcoholic, Walls really understands what a lot of families are going through, she constantly moved houses due to her dad not being able to…

Author’s voice is the individual style in which an author writes his or her works. Author’s voice has been prevalent throughout literature. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls develops her own voice trough her writing. Within several significant events, she uses diction, syntax, figurative language, point of view, and many other styles of writing to portray what happened to the reader. At the beginning of the story, Walls starts off the memoir with an extremely significant event. As she is…

A person cannot help a family member or friend who is not willing to help themselves. In Jeannette Wall’s memoir, The Glass Castle, her father is an alcoholic. He has had several jobs, but he had been unable to keep a steady job. In Battle Mountain, he lost the job in the barite mine after six months. Jeanette’s mother is now the sole provider for the family. When Jeanette was at school, soon after her dad lost his job, he brings them big bags of food for lunch because their mother did not have…

where you are.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, It shows the difficulty and challenges one can experience of moving around a lot. Moving for Jeannette was not just hard physically but also really hard mentally. While there is maybe only a few couple things that is a little bit familiar between Jeannette and I there is this one thing that really makes her character connected to me, and that one thing is having to move around all the time. In the Glass Castle we read and see Jeannette and…

Throughout Jeanette Wall’s memoir The Glass Castle, the author utilizes diverse and creative language, diction, and style to convey themes about nonconformity and self-sufficiency, while teaching strong lessons on individuality, endurance, and strength. Although both of Jeanette’s parents, Rose Mary and Rex, are irresponsible, selfish, and reckless, they did instill valuable life lessons and reflect meaningful sentiments onto their children, Lori, Jeanette, Brian, and Maureen. Rex Walls creates…

Is there ever a time to give up? At what circumstance is giving up a justifiable act? How do you find the strength to persevere? The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir focusing on her childhood and how grew up with dysfunctional parents. Her mother, Rose Mary, was almost always focused solely on her art career- art was such a huge part of her mother’s life that, at times, the maternal duties were of no concern. Rose Mary justified her withdrawal from her children’s life by…

The state of Maryland follows the common law when it comes to self-defense: the amount of forced used when defending oneself and the duty to retreat. The definition of self-defense given by the common law is “The right of a person to protect oneself with reasonable force against another person who is threatening to inflict force upon one 's person.” Correspondingly, the duty to retreat is “The doctrine holding that a victim of a deadly assault must attempt to safely retreat before using deadly…

infatuated with childhood and he chooses to be trapped between two worlds; one of innocence and the other of adulthood. On the contrary, maturity comes easily to certain children like Jeannette Walls, the main character and author of the memoir “A Glass Castle”. Jeannette is a four year old innocent, fun-loving girl who thinks she comes from a remarkable family. Progressively throughout the book, more-so when she is in…

In Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, Brian would be the character most likely to survive the Hunger Games based on his willingness to fight, his logical reasoning, and his emotional detachment. Brian is willing to get into a fight, and he is willing to take on people that are much larger than him in both stature and number. When Rose Mary, their mother, is ready to have her fourth child, the Walls family moves to Blythe in order to be near a hospital. Because all of the children have had an odd…

In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, is an independent little girl who has the responsibility to take care of herself and her siblings while, struggling to survive without the help of her neglectful and selfish parents. Jeannette, tries to find a way to endure the world of adventure and fantasy her parents make them believed they live in while, also attempting to find a more suitable life for herself and family. However, despite the effort she puts to live in a comfortable way, she…