Jeannette Walls

Without a stable family, life for Jeannette Walls and Adeline Yen Mah was disastrous. Though they both come from different cultural backgrounds, they share similar experiences of a tragic childhood. In Yen Mah’s autobiography, Falling Leaves, she recaps her life in a disunited family under a strict step-mother, Niang. Yen Mah tries desperately to distance herself from Niang by traveling to America, only to discover that Niang did not care enough about Adeline to leave a portion of her money in…

Drinking, smoking, working, being away from family for days, is the life of Rex Walls in the book “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. Rex changes throughout the story starting as reckless then uncivil and towards the end a nice and caring man. The character Rex Walls, in the book “The Glass Castle” has changed immensely over the course of the book. In the beginning of the book Rex’s second daughter, Jeannette had burned herself at a young age by making hotdogs and was sent to the Hospital.…

Non-Fiction novel is told by Jeannette Walls from when she was three years old until adulthood. Jeannette has an older sister named Lori and a younger brother named Brian. Jeannette and Brian love the outdoors, while Lori likes to read books and go to school. Jeannette's father, Rex Walls, is an alcoholic who likes to stay out all night in the bars. Rose Mary Walls, Jeannette's mother, can never hold down a job to supply the kids with food. The three year old Jeannette Walls is standing on…

Liberal Arts 25 September 2016 Jeannette’s Identity Could the dysfunction of the Walls family have promoted the amazing resilience and strength of Jeannette through various daily challenges? One could argue that the unusual and destructive behavior of Rex and Rose Mary forced her into a few unique situations that resulted in surprisingly her acting as a resilient and successful adult. In moving back to Welch, Virginia, Jeannette lost what minimal sense of security she may have enjoyed while…

if she wanted to be like her parents, homeless migrants, or to be a normal person. Jeannette was free to do whatever she wanted and was told crazy things by her parents. As she got older she realized that how she and her parents lived is not normal. Living in abandoned train depots, her father constantly looking for gold, or his fear of being chased is what led Jeannette to want to live a normal life. Jeannette Walls' success, not just in wealth, but also in her character, is in spite of her…

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 that she and her family…

was released, it has never failed to leave readers in shock, and awed. The tough life that the Walls family lived left every reader sad, and looking for more. Jeannette Walls always found a way to captivate readers into reading another page or even another chapter. From the beginning of the book the reader can see how strange the family was, and get immediately hooked on how much drama surrounded the Walls family. In many parts of the book someone either got hurt or got in trouble with the law,…

” (Walls,2005, p.129). Throughout Jeannette Walls’s memoir, The Glass Castle, the undeniable truth of the aforementioned statement is made blatantly obvious through the hardships the family faces. There are many people who believe the children should have been removed from their home due to these hardships; however, there would have been no relative, lawful, reason for their removal. The children did live in poor circumstances, but poverty is not reason enough for removal. In fact, the Walls…

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,…