The Wall

In the memoir of Jeanette Walls’ “The Glass Castle”, there are many themes to explore. Jeanette tells the tales of growing up in continued poverty with dysfunctional parents who find pleasure moving frequently in the dead of night. The Walls family was extremely poor and often there was no food, electricity or indoor plumbing in the multitude of places that the children called home. Jeanette grew up as the second oldest daughter in a family of six. Her father, Rex Walls, was a glorified…

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir that takes the reader through a story of growing up in tough conditions. The most shocking about this book is that the terrifying events actually took place in real life. One of the flaws in the plot is that the plot is told in such a fast pace which made it hard for me to comprehend when a major event occurred. I know that living is a constant struggle for the Walls family, but I never could tell if they were in Welch, or on Little Hobart Street,…

The Berlin Wall On August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall had been placed; Berlins demise was now imminent. The Berlin Wall was a major result of Cold War tensions. “From the 1940s on Germany itself had become a monster of the communist-capitalist conflict. It divided West Germany into the ‘Federal Republic of Germany’ and the smaller East Germany the ‘German Democratic Republic’.”(Taylor,1) It divided a city from the outer world and completely separated family and friends. At the end of World…

Frederick Taylor author of The Berlin Wall: A World Divided 1961-1989 written in 2007, brings to the front an almost forgotten event in history. He writes an in depth novel of what precipitated the events before the wall was built, and after it was torn down. Taylor gives a thorough account of the happenings, and with the use of evidence, personal account, interviews, and opinion he gives a delightful and at time somewhat controversial account of the Berlin Wall. The author gives account of the…

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall The United States’ and Soviet Union’s victory over Germany at the Elbe River, gave an image of peace to the rest of the world, as two nations combined to defeat a power that did everything it could to rise up and control the rest of the world. Unfortunately, human nature has shown, previous to World War II, that the world can’t live in peace because only one can be the best and most powerful. When Germany surrendered in the spring of 1945, the peace-making…

The Glass Castle is a memoir by MSNBC correspondent Jeannette Walls about her nomadic, poverty-stricken, and down-right unusual childhood. This memoir offers the reader an insight into how she was raised. The Walls’s lifestyle lead to endangerment and psychological harm. From the text we can conclude, that the Walls’s created a dangerous environment for their children. Rex and Rose Mary Walls were more wrapped up in their creative endeavors then being responsible parents. “I screamed. I…

The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall stood for nearly 30 years, surrounding the city of Berlin, Germany. It represented a symbol of the Cold War, which was a period of tautness between some of the most powerful countries in the world. Construction of the Berlin Wall started on August 13, 1961, and it was demolished a few weeks after November 9, 1989 ("Berlin Wall." New World). The original wall was made of cinder blocks and barbed wire. It was wrong to build the Berlin Wall, a wall that separated…

excerpt from the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls creates a somber tone towards the town of Welch. Jeannette develops this tone through the use of repetition and word choice. The word choice throughout this excerpt is always heavy-hearted and gloomy. Jeannette's purpose is to portray the town in a horrid way to show that this was the turning point in her life when she lost her purity and began to see the world in reality. Jeannette Walls suggests repetition when she talks in…

Life in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall The defining symbol of the Cold War was built on August 13, 1961. The world was still regaining its strength after the traumatic events of World War II. The country of Germany was divided between the four major allies the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (Dearden). The city of Berlin, which during the time of World War II was the capital of Nazi Germany, was divided amongst all of the allies even though Berlin is located in East…

Jeanette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, uncovers Walls’ difficult childhood that she recovered from, where she faced many inconveniences, seemingly from her parents lifestyles. Jeanette Walls’ parents might not have really watched, disciplined, or fully cared for her and her siblings, but they did give them love and were able to teach them resilience and independence through the way they lived their lives. The many struggles that Jeanette Walls faced in her childhood helped shape who she is…