The Glass Castle

the 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…

The book “The Glass Castle” is a nonfiction book about the life story of a women named Jeannette Walls. Jeannette was judged her whole life for always being an outsider, and for not having nice clothes or money. Her memoir “The Glass Castle” shows what Jeannette, and her family went through on an everyday basis, and how others treated not only herself, but her family. How do you think Jeannette was treated throughout her life while being an outsider? Do you think others treated her kind or…

Glass Castle Rough Draft In every family, there's always that special relationship or bond that’s shared between two family members that is exclusive to them. It could be between a mother and daughter, father and son, and most commonly, brother and sister. In the book, The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, we see such a relationship between her, and her father, Rex Walls. In the book, Jeannette explores the adventures and conflicts she and her family experienced. These adventures being how her…

While I have not had nearly as many hardships in my life as Jeannette Walls in her book The Glass Castle, there are still some things that her and I have in common. Throughout the book, Walls endured many struggles while traveling with her dysfunctional family. Jeannette’s father is constantly getting in the way of her success, from stealing her money to not always making her go to school. Eventually, she leaves her parents behind and makes her way to New York City, where she goes to college and…

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…

Jeannette Walls wrote a book, The Glass Castle, about her own life. In her book, she talks about her “adventurous” life moving from place to place. Her father was a drunken man who could not hold a steady job; therefore, he could not pay the bills. That is where the “adventures” came in. They would run away from the authorities so they would not have to pay the bills. Many times, their family would secretly move in the middle of the night. Her family included her mother, Rose Mary, who was a…

[Do you know the real story behind The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls?] Jeannette Walls was raised in a unique family. Rex and Rosemary , her parents, were very optimistic people, They would be very determined at points but then fell of track and became very idle. The Walls were always on the move, and with all that moving came unfortunate occurrences. Moving from one place to another because of not being able to pay bills or afford food. Regardless the Walls children tried their hardest having…

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…

book, which is referenced many times throughout, is the Glass Castle, a house that Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, is planning to build, once they get a bit more money. In early childhood, Jeannette truly believes in the dream of the Glass Castle, trusting her Dad to build it. “When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle….. Sometimes he’d pull them out and let us work on…

time you begin to stand on your feet. Poverty arrives easily and like an unwanted pest; it is challenging to get rid of. One has to be open to living a completely different lifestyle than what they are used to or what they wish. The novel, “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls is a perfect example of a child’s development through poverty. In fact, it is a memoir of Jeannette Walls’ life. Throughout the novel, her and her family take on different roles, they test their trust and forgiveness for…