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    The Glass Castle Jeanette’s childhood was like no other. The Wall’s nomadic lifestyle taught Jeanette from an early age that she had to take care of herself. While most three year olds are playing with dolls, at age three Jeanette was cooking hot dogs by herself on the stove. The Glass Castle shares Jeanette’s stories of her adventure-filled childhood. In the memoir, Jeannette Walls perseveres through tough times, forgives others and becomes self-reliant, which shows that overcoming barriers…

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    Homelessness is everyday life for the Walls family as they keep on the move around the country looking for their everyday needs. The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir about her life growing up in an unstable family while living in poverty. In the book, the parents try and fend for their kids to try and help them grow up the right way, but it doesn't always work out the way anyone would expect it to. Although there are many ways to cope with different situations and feelings,…

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    “The Glass Castle,” by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir about the struggles of a young girl and her siblings growing up under very dysfunctional family circumstances. Rex and Rose Mary Walls, Jeannette’s mother and father, find themselves continuously short on cash and food, and usually unable to provide well for their children. Regardless of these destitute living conditions, Jeannette and her three siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen, find themselves able to flourish as individuals and escape their…

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    The memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls brings the reader back in time to when she was very young and recalls her life experiences that deal with poverty, dysfunctional parents, and the choice between family first or herself. The Glass Castle reveals that Wall lived a large portion of her life on the run due to her adventurous, yet troublesome parents. Overtime, Walls discovers that life has more to offer if she gives herself a chance to experience the real world. Because of her…

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    In this passage from this memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls explains how Welch was a place full of people who liked to fight due to the harsh nature of the town. Walls illustrates this explanation by describing the reasoning behind people’s rough attitudes in Welch, and why these attitudes evolve into fighting. Walls purpose is to show how Welch was a place of negativity and obscurity in order to justify how she and her family had to survive and live in a town like Welch. Walls claims…

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    The book The Glass Castle is about a girl named Jeannette walls she writes about how she grew up and what her family was like. In the beginning she starts off with where she is now how she sees her mother digging in a trash can. Body The purpose of the author writing this book was to inform people about her life and how some people can grow up with nothing and still succeed in life. I believe she achieved this when she talks about the way her family moved from place to place every 6 months or…

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    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…

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    The Glass Castle tells the story of author, Jeannette Wall’s, life as she grows up with quite peculiar parents. Jeannette is a middle child with an intelligent older sister named Lori, a tough younger brother named Brian, and later on, an even younger sister named Maureen. The book opens in present time showing Jeannette as an adult on her way to an event. She then saw her homeless mother digging in the trash. Feeling shameful, Jeannette headed back home. The story then switches off to the past…

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    A parents first priority should always be their children. In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls wrote about her daily struggles growing up with her parents. Rex and Rose Mary were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models, made selfish acts and failed to be concerned about their children’s safety. Rex and Rose Mary Walls were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models. Jeannette’s parents were giving the wrong examples like using inappropriate language and…

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    Negligence from parental characters can subsequently affect a child while also having an instantaneous effect. Rex and Rose Mary Walls in The Glass Castle by Jeannette walls pay little attention to their children and the effects their actions inflict on them. As the parents act childish and dismiss their responsibilities Jeanette is made to assume a parental role. She has faced with the families financial issues as well as her sibling's personal lives. She adapts to her role in the family…

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