The Glass Castle

“If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.” Jeannette Walls and Liz Murray learned this throughout the struggles in their life. In the book ‘The Glass Castle’ Jeannette Walls learned that you have to see the better things in life. For example, when she was burned by scalding hot water at the age of 3 and had to go to the hospital, she used it to her advantage by getting delicious food and gum. Similarly, in the movie ‘Homeless to Harvard,’ Liz Murray did this by taking extra…

do that for him. When he becomes older he learns to do more and more on his own. Eventually that individual will get a job, which will show how responsible he is because being independent has to come with responsibility. In the beginning of The Glass Castle, Jeannette’s father was a good parent. He taught his children about the sciences and how to live a fearless life, but it was only after losing all of their money that the family gave up their nomadic lifestyle and settled down in West…

Shattering Truths of The Glass Castle: An Analytical Essay No one’s parents are normal; everyone has baggage in some form or another. Maybe they are overbearing helicopter parents, or maybe they consider their careers to be of the utmost importance, sacrificing quality time with children for work. Maybe they are intensely academics-focused tiger parents, or maybe, like Jeannette Walls describes in her bestselling memoir The Glass Castle, they border on destruction with their free-spirited…

Kendra Cherry, she writes about how Diana Baumrind identified four important dimensions of parenting through parental interviews and other methods. Authorian parenting, authorative parenting, uninvolved parenting and permissive parenting. In the glass castle by Jeanette Walls, the parents portray most of the different parenting styles but the permissive parenting style is what is mostly portrayed. In the article by Cherry she says that permissive parenting “have very few demands to make of…

Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, and Glass Castle, written by Jeanette Walls are two stories that prioritize the concept of social class. In Great Expectations, the main character is Pip, short for Phillip Pirrip, who is a boy part of a common family in the marshes of England. Pip is offered to switch from being common to wealthy by an unidentified benefactor, mostly influenced to do so by his cruel and greedy sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery. In Glass Castle, a girl named Jeanette Walls grows…

No matter what is going on in my life I always have a way I want everything to turn out, and I think Jeannette feels this way in the Glass Castle. I think most people dream in their head about how well they want the game to go or picture exactly how they want their life to turn out. For me those dreams in my head never seem to be what actually happens. When I went to the high school basketball games in middle school I would look over at the girls in the front row of the student section and only…

Intro: In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rex and Rosemary Walls used poor parenting skills when raising their children. They didn’t keep their children safe from many of the bad things that happened in the book, that could have been easily prevented. Many things that showed their poor parenting skills their abuse towards their kids, and the fact that their kids felt they had to get away from them. Their parents contributed to their childrens success, but not in a good way. Body…

One social issue in The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the prevalent issue of child neglect by parents. Throughout the book Jeannette’s parents are seen constantly neglecting their children and putting their kids needs last. Her parents main concern seems to be to live life the way they want to rather than to provide for the kids. This is seen throughout the book when Jeannette’s parents continuously refuse to work despite having no money but continue to indulge themselves. While Jeannette…

overcome many difficult adversities at the worst possible moments. Roman poet Horace claims that adversity brings out traits and qualities that wouldn't be seen otherwise. Everyone grows up in a different manner. In her narrative The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, her family including herself go through so many adversities. Since her childhood she went through so much pain beginning with her being caught on fire, to being raped, to getting robbed by her own parents, this makes her…

future. In the memoir The Glass Castle, the author, Jeanette Walls, writes about her experiences growing up in a dysfunctional household living in poverty, consumed by parental alcoholism, neglect, and poverty. The Walls family regularly moves homes because their father, Rex Walls, is unable to keep a stable job due to his alcohol addiction. Despite this instability, the children make every effort to stick together and support each other throughout their lives. In The Glass Castle, the author…