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Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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On Jeannette Walls’ memoir book “The Glass Castle”, the story of a young girl is told and it inspires readers who can relate to her life decisions. The novel was published on March 2005, the story can inspire readers to take new courses of action and help them transform and evolve as an individual even though their background is unfavorable. This story demonstrates how dreams should not be held back because of their past.
At the beginning of the novel Jannette is a young girl who lives with her three siblings and her dysfunctional parents, who ignore their responsibilities, and later becomes a successful woman. Her parents, Rex and Mary Walls, neglected the needs of her and her three siblings such as food, and spend the few amount of money …show more content…

For example, when Jannette was a teen and she once had a conversation with a man about her future, she told him about how he wanted to become either a veterinarian or a geologist, instead the man answered with “for the daughter of the town drunk, you sure got big plans” (walls 183). He didn’t expect much from her since she didn’t have a good figure parent. The man had very low expectations because he saw she was coming from an unprivileged family. Even though most people didn’t believe in her, Jannette proved them all wrong. Nothing held back Jeannette, with part time jobs and saving money little by little she was able to save enough money to move out of the town she lived in. she made up her mind and was determined about it, she was very serious when she said ,”I was going to New York City as soon as the school year was out” (Walls 237). Since her parents didn’t really cared about her leaving or staying, as she said, she left as soon as she could. No matter what, Jeannette wanted to achieve her dreams of having a better life. Jeannette’s rough childhood was not a problem when it came to bettering her life nor her

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