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    The Glass Castle Essay

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    city’s surrounding. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is an autobiographical journal about her life and her family. The book features her family and her relationship with every single one of her family members. She is especially close to her highly intelligent father with a passion for logic and alcohol, Rex Walls. The parents of Walls are regularly move from city to city because of the lack of security in parenthood and their failure to keep their…

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    You learn many things through reading the Glass Castle. I feel one of the first tones you pick up on would be the closeness between Jeannette and her father. Jeanette has this faith and happiness she gets from Rex that no one else in her family understands. Sadley, this becomes one of the many big problems she faces in her life. There are many times throughout Jeanette’s life you could start this out with. For example, Rex ruined Christmas. He got so drunk that he burned down the christmas…

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    My life wasn’t always the best. Back when I was just a young girl, my mother fell ill and died short after. Every day after her death I would visit her grave and pray that I would turn out to be the woman she hoped for me to be. In time, my father remarried to a nasty woman with two unbearable daughters that found joy in pestering me. Although my new step sisters were indeed very pretty, they had evil souls. My step mother did nothing to stop them, instead egged them on and even replaced all of…

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    In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls talked about her struggles in life, and I would like to explain some of the things I have endured in my life. I haven’t had the hardest life, but it hasn’t been the easiest either. I will be enlightening the readers about how I got through alcoholism in my life, and learning how to be an adult at a really young age. I will also be explaining what effect each person in my family has had on my life. My life relates to The Glass Castle because of what I have…

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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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    How much did you depend on your parents growing up? The guidance and assistance-or lack thereof-provided by parents for their child can affect the child’s morals, values, and what they do with their life. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls and her siblings grew up surrounded by alcoholism, poverty, and abuse-physical, sexual, and emotional-while their parents were unhelpful when it came to providing for the needs of their children. The way a child thinks and acts depends greatly on how well…

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    Is a bomb that could wipe out hundreds and thousands of lives powerful? During World War 2 the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Japan got devastated because of the United States bomb invention which is the nuclear bomb. United States dropped the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, according to the articles about 65,000 to 200,000 people kick the bucket. After the destruction of Hiroshima, Japan still did not surrender. United States dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki which…

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    Joshua Tree Symbolism

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    aerial views of the Glass Castle. He had diagramed the wiring and the plumbing. He had drawn the interior of the rooms and labeled them and specified their dimensions, down to the inches, in his precise blocky handwriting. I stared at his plans. ‘Dad,’ I said ‘you’ll never build the Glass Castle,’” (Walls 238). Walls uses her father’s dream of building the Glass Castle as a symbol for the American Dream, the dream of a better life. As the title of the memoir, the Glass Castle acts as a reminder…

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    Graham’s evangelistic career had just begun when he was asked to speak at a Youth for Christ rally. Torrey Johnson was looking for a dynamic speaker who could inspire and energize a young audience in their faith and he thought of Graham. The Youth for Christ rallies were established to be upbeat, exuberant, and celebrate Christ’s good works. Graham spoke at Chicago’s first Youth for Christ rally on May 24, 1944. Graham was nervous that no one would show up, but it was just the opposite (Wooten,…

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    been highly prized throughout history. It has been the source of interesting myths because people have long considered eloquence to be magical and as potent as a charm. In Ireland, for instance, legend has it that kissing the Blarney Stone in Blarney Castle will bless you with the art of persuasion. When you know how to say the right things at the right time, when you know how to use the art of persuasion, you will develop a knack for negotiation and influence. So, if you…

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