The Glass Wall

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.…

Ever sense The Glass Castle 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…

The Glass Castle The book, The Glass Castle, is a memoir written by Jeanette Walls. It is about her life and family while they struggle to find their place in the world. Throughout the book, Jeanette and her family are frequently doing the “skedaddle” and moving all around the United States. When they finally settle in Welch, West Virginia, her family faces many problems. Not only is her family poor, but also her father, Rex Walls, is a thrill-seeking alcoholic who does the worst job of taking…

” (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…

children wouldn’t be able to with regular parents. The Walls family from The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls believe in free range parenting and you can see that their kids are responsible at a young age. Jeannette, when she was only four, was capable of many things that other kids her age would not be. In the book it says, “I cooked hot dogs. I was hungry, mom was at work on a painting, and no one else was there to fix them for me.” (Walls 15) This shows that free range…

lack of hard work. However, The Glass Castle, written by Jeanette Walls, provides a new outlook on homeless stereotypes. Suggesting that homelessness can sometimes be a choice, a character in the novel says, “I think that maybe sometimes people get the lives they want” (Walls 256). The Glass Castle resonates with me because of it’s theme, ability to change the reader’s thinking, and the story’s parallels to my own life. There are many themes throughout The Glass Castle but two are extremely…

Jeanette Walls, an American writer and journalist, tells the story of her early life in her hit novel Glass Castle. The novel spans from her toddler years and finishes off in present times. Walls uses great tools and techniques to make the reader feel as if they were right there with her on her journey. Jeanette Walls’ novel, Glass Castle, can be represented by the following quote by Thomas Merton: “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to…

involved alcohol. The U.S statistic showed that there are about 320 million people in the U.S, and about 17 million people are alcoholics. Which means that one in every 12 adults suffer from alcohol abuse, and alcohol dependence. Jeannette Walls, the author of Glass Castle, also had a father who was alcoholic. In her childhood, her life was not easy because she did not get any proper protections or supplies from her parents. She never got good meal, or safe house. But most importantly, her…

In Jeannette Walls’ book The Glass Castle, she exhibits not only extremely skilled and knowledgeable writing, but offers a specific and thorough example of the importance of tone in literature. The Glass Castle illustrates this idea through the varying depictions of the dad throughout the beginning, middle, and end. Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle depicts a vivid insight into her life growing up as an abuse victim, and child of an alcoholic. Despite being raised as the second oldest of four…

The memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the tragic story of Walls abusive childhood with her alcoholic father and living in poverty. One of the most important and memorable parts of her story of struggle is when she actually stands up for herself against her father on pages 236-238. Throughout Jeannette’s horrid childhood she has always been loyal to her father, even though he has been highly abusive, at this point of the story what strategies does Jeannette use to convey her…