looks as though it had just rained, but in reality everything is hosed down each night so the park looks fresh and clean. I was listening to the music that is piped through the audio system and watching the first guests arrive underneath Cinderella Castle. There they stopped because of a rope. My job this day (before working the rides) was to choose a little boy and a little girl to “open” the Magic Kingdom! I surveyed the crowd as I approached the eager guests. I spotted a little boy and his…
uphold tragic events, information, the grueling aspects of life, and still be able to live life with a smile on their face, day in and day out. In the work of Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, it deals with multiple social, mental, and physical issues that occur today in our society and everyday lives. The Glass Castle is the story of Jeannette Walls it is a memoir of her life and all of the hardships she has dealt with in her life. This book deals with a wide variety of problems that we can…
Could you survive living in constant poverty? This was the reality for author Jeannette Walls. In her book, The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Walls describes growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and a childish mother. After Walls published her book, Alex Witchel of The New York Times Magazine interviewed her. Within the article, “How Jeannette Walls Spins Good Stories Out of Bad Memories,” Witchel recounts her visit to the farm where Walls lives with her husband and mother.…
Few things inspire readers more than true stories of human triumph. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, is the story of how a girl in an unthinkable situation overcomes the challenges life presents her. Jeannette Walls and her three siblings suffer severe trauma and hardship at the hands of their irresponsible and self-centered parents. From going days on end without food to almost being raped with the approval of her father, Jeannette endures and emerges as an accomplished author who…
H is for Halloween Dance The Halloween Dance was one of the best Dances I have ever went to. The Halloween Dance was a dance celebrated on the last weekend of October on Friday. You got to wear a costume to the dance, but the costume couldn't be bloody, it couldn't bring fake weapons or real, and you also couldn't wear a mask. Before the dance, if you are in SAC (a meeting for students and staff only), then you work there, but you can still dance. You can get in for free, but you got to get a…
The Glass Castle is a nonfiction book that was later turned into a movie. The book was written by Jeannette Walls, and the book is about her life. This story is a mostly about the family dynamic of a family who moves around quite often and where each member of the family has their own sets of difficulties. I think the book was turned into a movie for two reasons, one is that the book has parts that would not be super appropriate for younger readers, so they made it into a more of a kid friendly…
With reading each chapter of the Glass Castle, I could relate more and more too each story the author told. Throughout the novel, Jeannette Walls childhood is characterized by the disorder and confusion of flawed parents and their chaotic lifestyle. Although her parents were irresponsible and careless, somehow they managed to instill in their children commendable qualities that led to them becoming well-adjusted adults. Through the dysfunction of their childhood, Jeanette and her siblings…
The book I chose for this book report is The Class Castle a memoir written by Jeannette Walls. The publisher for this book is Scribner and was published in 2005. There are 288 pages in this memoir. The Glass Castle starts with Jeannette Walls in a taxi driving through a busy New York City when she notices her mother searching through the dumpster on the street. Once she saw her mother she quickly slid down so she would not be noticed. After Jeannette explains her shame for hiding from her…
In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the family endures a lot of hardships, one of which includes moving from place to place. They hardly stayed anywhere for more than a week, and moved more times than they could count to avoid the law and payments. Jeannette usually had a hard time making friends, so it would have been difficult for her. They eventually stopped the constant relocating, and settled in Welch, West Virginia. Moving was always one of the hardest things for me to do as I was…
Today in society many of us tend to do whatever it takes to fit in and keep our true selves locked in. In the memoir entitled The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls experiences a lot of obstacles due to the frequent moving. She often faces trouble with making new friends and having others to fully understand her. At some point one tends to get tired of others not understanding so they hide their past along with their true personality just to fit in. In my cousins experience she once faced the same…