Children are given the luxury of romanticizing the subtleties of life. Curiosity aloofly guides their imagination, which allows them to perceive and preserve the world as utopian, enhancing their happiness. However, as time passes, this luxury is categorized as a childish delusion when it was previously praised. Individuals who lacked this protection were forced to mature at a faster rate, helping them view life with more transparency. Jeanette Walls' intimate memoir, The Glass Castle, questions why this romanization is a distorted perception and discusses how it harms one’s healing. Walls characterizes familial trauma to display how patience is a cultivated mentality that is inhibited by the urgency of loved ones. They unintentionally create …show more content…
Within the Christian faith, the sentiment "through sickness and health" is heavily associated with believing that what you are hoping for will come to pass. It is a belief in progression and patience that is deemed a virtue because it is both an emotion and a skill. Rose Mary cherishes the concept of Christianity, but her relationship is strained due to her marriage to Rex. This erratic behaviour is a better analogy for her conflicting loyalties to God and her husband. Her husband represents freedom and adventure, whereas God gives her life, leniency, lenient cognition, and cognition. She was caught between a rock and a hard place as she had to choose which relationship she would dedicate her time to. Rose Mary's patience, however, was unconventional compared to the societal norm regardless of her relationships. Although her work ethic is detrimentally lethargic, she diligently tolerates Rex's shenanigans as “she liked to enforce self-sufficiency in all living things”. Rex is a nuanced, dynamic character, and Rose contrasts with his consistency. Her static nature provides a …show more content…
Jennette exemplifies compassion with boundaries because she can relate to her past life. She may be free, but she has not freed herself from the scarcity mindset, which is her only foundation. Her foundation, like that of a Joshua tree, is considered flawed because it grows irregularly. Jeanette is the middle child, so it's safe to assume she's seen the consequences of domineering people abusing their patience. Jeanette experiences feelings of insecurity and instability as a result of her abrupt abandonment, leaving her with feelings of insecurity and instability that she carries with her into adulthood. Walls demonstrate how pervasive traumas such as poverty combined with parental neglect create overwhelming feelings of depression among children, who must bear witness to not only physical but also emotional hardship caused by being born into difficult circumstances through no fault of their own. She tries to self-medicate by excelling academically and graduating at the age of 17, but her abandonment issues persist. Jeanette revealed herself to be a fully fleshed-out individual as a result of her pursuit of herself, and her values grew as she grew distant but never far. Jeanette seizes the initiative by becoming a parent, not only to herself but also to her other siblings. Her determination to reach out and pursue greater development not only through her siblings but also through her
While they provided Jeanette with food, they left her on her own to cook for herself and it led to her getting burned, meaning their permissiveness resulted in injury. Although it’s because of higher expectations of maturity, the Walls had little to no rules for their children to
While an adolescent may be taught by dozens of educators throughout their academic years, their first teacher is found in their parents. While the lessons taught do not reach to the extent of those given in school, their purpose is to instill proper morals and manners into the child. Forgiveness was an important concept that the protagonists learned in both Walls’ The Glass Castle and Hickam’s Rocket Boys. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette, despite all of the mistakes her parents made, forgave them each and every time.
“On at least one point, though, their parents were right: The Walls kids were smart. The oldest daughter Lori escaped to New York City, where she worked as a nanny; Jeannette and her younger siblings Brian and Maureen eventually followed. For Jeannette the turning point came when her mom left for a job in a nearby town, leaving her 13-year-old daughter with just a few dollars to feed her and her siblings. Rex begged, and Jeannette gave him the cash to buy beer instead. ‘I realized that as much as I loved him, I couldn't fix him,’ she says.
No matter how messed up, annoying, or just plain out crazy your family is, at the end of the day they’re still your family and you love them. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, you will learn and read about a very dysfunctional family. Throughout Jeanette’s childhood she went through constant struggles. From catching on fire trying to cook herself a hog dogs when she was 3, to moving over 20 times throughout the years while her parents struggled to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Jeanette shows us that despite bad parenting, a child can still become resilient.
In the memoir The Glass Castle, journalist Jannette Walls tells the bittersweet story of her childhood struggles and what it was like growing up in poverty. “I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” (pg.34) Walls grows up in a family trailed by broken homes, and she focuses on her untraditional childhood with her parents that were too self-centered and lazy to have steady jobs.
There may come a time when a loving set of partners decide to have a child together, which is much easier said than done. These two people must work together and realize that being a parent is arguably one of the hardest jobs out there. Everything their kids do is a reflection of them as well as their morals and decisions. Within Jeannette Walls’s novel “The Glass Castle,” she remembers the trauma that is her childhood. Her parents, Rex and Rose Mary Walls, are not the typical parents.
“Believe in miracles…. Hope is never lost” (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland). Believing that the worst is behind them and that they will come upon a better life is the only way that Jeanette Wall’s family is able to stay afloat. In Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle, the symbol of hope is portrayed through a Glass Castle: a real home in which everyone is important and loved.
Jeanette’s childhood was shameful due to her parents careless way of living. Throughout The Glass Castle Jeannette hides her childhood just like she from her mother because she is ashamed of what people might think. Jeannette Walls lived a tough childhood because of her parents. They were always moving around trying to find a place to build a glass castle. They never gave any of their children a set home while they were growing up.
In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette manages to overcome her obstacles by realizing her independence. She is impacted by her parents’ incapabilities because she realizes that she has to do things differently than other children. Her father was a stubborn alcoholic who believed that: “[they] were all getting too soft, too dependent on creature comforts, and that [they] were losing touch with the natural order of the world”(Walls 106). He believes that every human should be independent and fend for themselves. By using the term “creature comforts”, her father is trying to separate himself from what he calls the civilians.
Jeanette grows up not allowing herself to call one house a home. The Walls family are always on a run, moving houses consistently. As Jeanette also has to move
Poverty and Mental Health Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, demonstrates the struggles of mental health issues that generate from poverty through her family’s journeys, both mentally and physically. Jeannette Walls displays how poverty can affect an entire family’s life through her use of realism, in-depth descriptions, and imagery in her memoir, The Glass Castle. The Glass Castle focuses on the tie between mental health issues and poverty through the theme of the lasting effects of poverty. Poverty in Jeannette’s younger years is the cause of the majority of her anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The Walls family’s period of time in Phoenix contributed to Jeannette’s mental health issues.
As a child, Jeannette Walls moves around constantly with her family. The Walls family would move to different desert towns and settle as long as Mr. Walls can hold a job. When sober, Mr. Walls represents a charismatic father who loves his children and teaches them important life skills. He encourages imagination inside of the Walls kids and often captures their dream and creativity. Together, the family had planned to build a glass castle that contains all of the family’s hope and inspiration.
She struggled with how the society and her family shaped who she was. She was exposed to her family first which made her behave the way she did under her family’s house. Jeanette struggled with her family by taking care of the house, beings told bending the rules is okay and the acceptance of her Mom’s and Dad’s homelessness. When Jeannette left her family and went to live in New York, she becomes an individual. She fends for herself and gets her life together.
In this world, there’s learning things the hard way and the easy way; in Jeannette Wall’s world, there’s only learning things the hard way. The Glass Castle is an adventurous story that reveals the painfully miserable story of Jeannette Walls. A selfish mother, a careless father, and terrible social encounters- these are some of the elements of a harsh reality Rex and Rose Mary Walls failed to shield their children from. Growing up poor was already difficult, but growing up with a selfish parent, specifically an unfeeling mom, made life hell for the Walls children. The family barely had one source of income from Rex Walls, and instead of helping out with the family’s finance issues, Rose Mary spent her days at home painting.
Jeannette Walls also uses the symbol of the Glass Castle, which develops throughout the memoir to show how she slowly loses trust in her father as she realises that she can not depend upon him or anyone else for happiness. The symbolism evolves throughout the memoir as Walls evolves as a person. In the beginning of the memoir, her description of the Glass Castle is naive and hopeful. Her naivety is most apparent when Walls writes, “All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert… All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that.