The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls Personal Response

An Unknown Reality The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls. The story undergoes the obstacles Jeannette had to face when she was growing up. Her mother did not want to be counted responsible for Jeannette and her siblings. Jeannette’s mother did not cook or bathe her children. She just let them do whatever they pleased. Her father was a philosopher who though Jeannette everything. He exceeded her education with his wonderful knowledge. However, he was a violent alcoholic. Whenever he got drunk, he would beat her mother and destroy furniture in the house. He spent most of the money in alcohol which caused the children to go hungry. Jeannette achieved her dreams with determination and hard work considering she grew up in a dark environment. The Glass Castle helped me have a better understating on how it is to live in poverty and to have hope.

The Walls’ family barely had enough money to live and struggled trying to make ends meet. I can relate to her experience since I grew up in a third world country, and I somewhat experienced poverty. I never lived anything similar to what some of my relatives that lived near me had to go through. I grew up seeing many children go hungry and with a hopeless face. There was also a great deal of fear in my town. Most of the drug dealers forced us to pay them for our “protection” or they will hurt us. I had to grow tough skin to be able to deal with this type of situations. The hard conditions my hometown had led to my dad moving us to Spartanburg, South Carolina. I went through a tough but happy childhood, but Jeannette faced worse problems that I ever did. Through Jeannette’s courage, I learned that I have the power to change the world and help