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Jorge Rovira Mrs. Chaffin 9th Honors Literature January 25, 2017 Journal #3: The Glass Castle, pp. 91-154 The Walls siblings showed loyalty to each other many times. For example, when Billy kept pestering Jeannette about being her girlfriend, Billy gets turned down. He got mad and began shooting at her with his bibi gun so the three children protected themselves with their father’s gun. When Jeannette tells Erma off, Lori gives Jeannette a hug. Kids always started fights with Lori, Brian,…

Poverty in The Glass Castle Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. It makes you do wild things when you don’t have money, food, water, and possibly not even having shelter. People go through rough stages when poor. The Glass Castle by “Jeannette Walls” is a good example. A impact that it has on a family and children is surviving. Trying to get through it, some families will eat out of trash cans to survive. That is what Jeannette's family did. There's a bunch of effects that poverty…

These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone believed that honesty was the best policy if you wanted to live a good life. You can’t be afraid of the truth or what it might cause. In Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls tells the truth in a straightforward tone which allows her to directly and quickly address her family’s hardships, and surprises the reader with how conscious Jeannette was of her family’s situation. Jeannette tries to motivate her…

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls children had many obstacles in their young years of life but through it all they changed and adjusted to a life style that fit them well. “I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” (Pg.32) All of the children grew up and went their own way in life, through everything that they went through together they all seemed to have a different outlook on life and how they…

In the book the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the author shows that people can be greatly damaged at a young age, and they will be too young and innocent to completely know what they had just experienced and they won't exactly know how to treat it or how to react. “I didn't really kiss him, or at least it didn't count. My eyes have been open the entire time.” (Wall 86) I thought this was important because it shows a certain type of innocence in Jeanette, and how young she was when this boy…

Belal Jamil Mrs. Dachille AP3: Hr. 1 19 August 2015 The Glass Castle: Setting In The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, setting plays a crucial role in the plot. The book revolves around the life of Jeannette Walls, from her early childhood in the 1960’s, to her adult-life in the early 2000’s. Since Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, is unable to hold down a job and refuses to pay taxes, a majority of Jeannette’s childhood is spent moving from city-to-city. Due to this, there is no specific location…

only in front of them” (3). Although they are not actually stuck in a cave, and the cave being a metaphor, Walls’ parent’s “caves” are an imprisonment to not wanting to attain jobs, so they can have money to provide for their family. In The Glass Castle Walls’ mother, Rose Mary emphasizes that after she returned from renewing her teaching certificate she “intended to quite her teaching job and devote herself to art” (218). Leaving her telling her children that they can earn their own money (218)…

I have been developing my worldview for the past 22 years. Every single day I expand my worldview by reading, listening, watching, exploring, and learning. Although I have been expanding my worldview since I was born I have been narrowing down and focusing on my worldview when I entered college. Taking Core IX has helped me stabilize my current worldview. As we study Christian Humanism I find myself aligning more with these values. A Christian Humanist recognizes the inherent dignity in every…

she feels that her life has needs no help. Even in one of the busiest and prosperous cities in the world, she is perfectly happy with (what seems like to me) a hard, depressing, down-on-her-luck life. 2) The epigraph in the beginning of The Glass Castle explains how darkness is the journey that ultimately leads to light. For Jeanette, she truly had to endure a childhood filled with darkness and strife to enter into a place that is the light. The light is the life that Jeanette has achieved…

Living within poverty level can be a hard day-to-day struggle for anyone. I know this from my personal experiences growing up. Also in the book The Short And Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs, the author; describes how Rob and his mother went through life in poverty. Poverty is defined as, "the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor" (Dictonary.com, 2017). I always think of living pay check to pay check and having the…