Comparing Adulthood In The Joy Luck Club And The Glass Castle

In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the parenting style that best fits the parents is permissive, they show every characteristic of a permissive parent. They “rarely discipline” Jeannette when she burns herself cooking hotdogs (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). “I was on fire. It’s my earliest memory.

The glass castle in The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls can be taken as so many things at first thought. It could be symbolic or literal but you won 't know which it is until you read it. For me, I thought it was a castle they were trying to get to, like a safe haven. It turns out that the glass castle stood for everything the Walls family had worked for, you see this through the characters, their life in Welch and where they ended up in the end. Getting to know the characters was a very important part of understanding the importance of the glass castle.

Flight written by Sherman Alexie is told in a first-person narrative by its protagonist Zits. He is a 15-year-old half-Native American orphan. Zits has a long history of abuse by the people around him, self-esteem issues, and a long list of past delinquencies. As one reads the novel, it looks as though many of Zits issues stem from his father 's abandonment before birth and his mother 's death when he was six years old.

How does Jim make the movement from innocence to experience in the text ‘Fly away peter’ In the novel ‘Fly Away Peter,’ David Malouf uses the main protagonist, Jim Saddler, to move from a state of innocence and wellbeing to a stage of experience and fear. Malouf demonstrates to the reader the theme of innocence throughout the novel, and when coming to close the aspects of experience shines through. The use of several techniques such as binary opposites, metaphors, foreshadowing, and symbolism helps the narrative to illustrate the horrors and loss of the First World War and the exquisiteness and attractiveness of nature.

“If you don 't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim” (41). Although Rex Walls was not always an admirable father and role model, he did make an essential point while teaching his daughter, Jeannette, how to swim. In life, not everything comes without resistance. As Jeannette Walls describes throughout her life story, sometimes people are forced to face hardships that make them question their whole life. However, as seen in her book, it is important to learn to take those hardships and use them to shape one’s future for the better.

Forgiveness “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). Why is it strenuous to forgive?

In the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie, the character Justice is imaginary in the mind of the protagonist, Zits, to validate his subconscious acts. If justice was a real person in the story, he would have been there in each scene with Zits, and with that; he would have also experienced the same consequences for his actions that Zits endured. The fact that Justice was not with Zits for a vast amount of time throughout the novel, and he also did not live through the consequences for his actions proves that he was just an imaginary figure in the mind of Zits. Zits has a pretty hard life,since a young age, his parents were never around to support him, and he moves from foster home to foster home not really getting along with anyone he meets.

By the end of his "flights", Zits has discovered himself and other things that help him in the future. Throughout the novel, Zits learned more and more about himself and how his behavior and actions define his identity more than his race as he endured his "flights" through the identities of others. Zits ' first flight was in the body of an FBI agent that is involved in Native American history named Hank. Hank 's partner was talking bad about Native Americans and Zits thinks, "I wonder what this racist FBI man would do if he knew his partner was really a half-breed Indian.

“The Glass Castle” made me realize how responsible and unselfish my parents are in my life. “The Glass Castle” is a memoir, written by Jeannette Walls, that shows no relations with the Walt DIsney quote through illustrating an opposite mindset towards helping a child and hindering a child from. “The Glass Castle” gives various examples of how Rex and Rose Mary Walls raise and talk to their children as if they were adults; without showing any affection that will cause a hunger for higher mental stature. Rex and Rose Mary, In some situations, let their kids do what they want, and how they want, and at times, kind of forsake them.

In the novel Flight, author Sherman Alexie “tries to validate and question ‘the individual’s desire to bridge cultural and personal difference’” (Ibarrola-Armendariz and Vivanco 7). Flight is centered around the main character, Zits, as he transforms into different bodies while simultaneously transforming his identity. He gets insight into the minds of different cultural, historical, and social backgrounds, which helps Zits change from cold and violent to understanding and sympathetic. To illustrate this change more in depth, Alexie uses various literary elements to achieve a theme of identity.

In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, the author, was most influenced by her time in Phoenix, as indicated by how she describes the living situation in her grandma's old house with the money, and the time they had to tie her dad down because he was going delusional. It is evident throughout the story that living in Phoenix had a great impact on Jeannette Walls, She had spent more time there than any other place and she even came back after leaving. The first time was just to visit Grandma Smith, but the second time they came back to stay for awhile in Grandma Smith’s old house. The family’s time in Phoenix is described mainly about the house there and what happened in or around that house.

Alcohol, used in both solemn and joyful times, can be dangerous when one becomes dependent upon it. The medical term for this condition is called alcohol dependence, or alcoholism. This condition is clearly and horrifically displayed by Rex Walls in the novel The Glass Castle. Rex's alcoholism effects both him and his family very negatively. With signs of alcoholism being fairly clear-cut, it is easy to tell if one is truly an alcoholic.

People have this belief that maturity is based on the age. However, I conclude that maturity comes from a person’s proficiency. A person can gain the maturity by their lack of intelligence. For example, in the book, “The glass castle”, the author introduced us the character of Jeannette.