Cinderella Castle

The Glass Castle: The Longest Simile to Resilience Human resilience is defined in Elizabeth Edwards’s quote, “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it 's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you 've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that 's good.” It has exemplified itself repeatedly throughout our existence on Earth, from the harsher, simpler days of survival, or how nations have fallen to…

The Glass Castle is an inspiration story that has inspired a lot of people to write and or talk about their own hardships in life. In life most people are born without a mental illness and they go through life not knowing what it is like to have one unlike me. When I was born I had Dyslexia and ADHD so I had a hard time in english, reading and staying awake for most of the day. I could never understand social cues or slang so I was out casted from my class because it seem like I have a curse and…

Light At the End of the Tunnel Although Jeannette Walls and I share a common thread of being hospitalized at a young age, it is my belief after reading The Glass Castle that Jeannette had it far worse than I ever did. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette shares how she spent over a month in a hospital due to burns after she tried to make herself hot dogs. The time that Jeannette spent in the hospital was like a vacation from her crazy life and parents. She relished the time in the hospital because it…

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…

Struggles are a necessary part of life. Without them we would accomplish nothing. Merna Summers’ short story “The Skating Party” revolves around Nathan Singleton, and the story of a night in the past, told through the eyes of his niece Maida. At eleven years old she is told by her mother that Nathan’s fiancée Eunice and her sister Delia had fallen through the ice of the lake one November night. Delia was the only one of the two to survive the accident and when asked by Maida why he chose to save…

Najmah’s Characteristics The intellect and willpower of a human goes beyond the limits of nature as they have the ability to change their understanding of who they are when faced in the loss of their known world. This is displayed with the main character Najmah from the well-known book Under the Persimmon Tree as she took comfort in her family, allowing them to protect her from her consistent anxiety. Najmah becomes responsible when her father and brother were taken away from her,…

The Nevada Test Site for nuclear testing for World War II has one of the worst effects on humans and animals. The increase in cancer risks and cases can be attributed to the contamination of the food supply, water, and soil as a result of nuclear testing in the southwestern United States. Iron County, Nevada was one of the first exposed to radiation. Sheep and farmers were among those affected by nuclear testing and fallout. Eighteen to twenty thousand sheep were exposed to fallout from the 1953…

Rose Mary Walls In the memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls she focuses on the struggles and strange parenting skills of the Walls. Rose Mary Walls is a selfish free-spirit who values self-sufficiency and resents her children because in her mind they are standing in the way of her being a journalist. Jeannette Walls outlines Rose Mary’s unique outlook on life by demonstrating her selfish free-spirited behavior. One way Rose Mary demonstrates her selfish behavior was when she was eating…

The book, The Glass Castle, written by Jeanette Walls, discusses the struggles of the author’s family’s life from her childhood to her adulthood. The Walls lived a very simple life due to being impoverished. The parents Rose Mary and Rex usually find a way to look at things in a positive way, as they use their unorthodox parenting methods to attempt to give their four children a good life. The beginning of the book takes place in an array of different places as the family is always doing the…

Neglect is the state or fact of being uncared for. The Glass castle is about Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food. The family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. They encounter many situations but they manage to overcome it. These problems should have been easily avoided if the parents did not neglect their children. Rex and Rose mary Walls are one of the reasons why the children feel like they are neglected. Rex is an alcoholic and can’t…