The Glass Castle

Coming of age is an inevitable learning process that every teenager will go through in order to step into adulthood. Everyone grows up differently and each story is told differently. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir where her story revolves around her coming of age from her rough past. The author grows up in a poor family with a nomadic lifestyle. As they move around, they encounter different adventures across the States, from the grandmother’s house in Phoenix to Welch. Walls’…

A parents first priority should always be their children. In the memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls wrote about her daily struggles growing up with her parents. Rex and Rose Mary were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models, made selfish acts and failed to be concerned about their children’s safety. Rex and Rose Mary Walls were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models. Jeannette’s parents were giving the wrong examples like using inappropriate language and…

Negligence from parental characters can subsequently affect a child while also having an instantaneous effect. Rex and Rose Mary Walls in The Glass Castle by Jeannette walls pay little attention to their children and the effects their actions inflict on them. As the parents act childish and dismiss their responsibilities Jeanette is made to assume a parental role. She has faced with the families financial issues as well as her sibling's personal lives. She adapts to her role in the family…

Glass Castle Movie Review The memoir The Glass Castle was written by Jeannette Walls to illustrated the dysfunctional household her siblings and her were apart of growing up. In 2017 the movie adaptation, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, reached movie theaters all over the country and was an instant hit. Many people who also dealt with major struggles growing up related to The Glass Castle on an emotional level. Jeannette was played by actress Brie Larson who did an excellent job of…

In the 2005, memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette walls reveals the unfortunate tales of her early childhood life. Walls experienced a different type of childhood. Unlike some kids who grow up eating lunchables and animal crackers, Walls was contemplating what her next meal would be with her other siblings. The Walls family includes her Father, Rex, her mother, Rose Mary, her older sister, Lori, her younger brother, Brian, and her youngest sister, Maureen. Some would argue that this family was…

The Glass Castle is a nonfiction book that was later turned into a movie. The book was written by Jeannette Walls, and the book is about her life. This story is a mostly about the family dynamic of a family who moves around quite often and where each member of the family has their own sets of difficulties. I think the book was turned into a movie for two reasons, one is that the book has parts that would not be super appropriate for younger readers, so they made it into a more of a kid friendly…

I chose to write about the book, The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls. This book or memoir was quite alarming in that it tells the horrific stories of child abuse, abject poverty to eventually Jeannette and her siblings becoming successful with healthy families and relationships of their own. The Walls family that was constantly on the move led by mentally ill mother (Rose Mary) and an alcoholic father (Rex). The memoir starts outs with Jeannette seeing her mother crawling through a…

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…

Jeanette Walls developed through many hardships in a poor and unstable home. The daughter of Rex and Rose Mary Walls had a tough childhood as her father was an on and off alcoholic and her mother a self involved and somewhat distant figure to her four children. Jeanette and her siblings, Lori, Maureen, and Brian, relied heavily on each other to make their lives different from those of their parents. Jeanette has a special bond with her father growing up and often sees the good in him over the…

Jeannette’s childhood consisted of negligent parents and her long time dream of getting away from them by moving to New York to fulfill what she dreams of being, a journalist. She knew something better was out there than always having to work in order to keep a roof over her family’s heads. She knew, when she received the right amount of money, she needed to do something for herself by moving away from her family. She also knew she had what it takes to go to New York by herself because she was…