Three Years Old Jeannette Walls Family

The Walls family consists of two parents and four children, totaling to six members in the family. Rex Walls is the father of the children, while Rose Mary holds the title of being the mother. Lori Walls is the oldest child out of the four. She is three years older than Jeannette Walls, who is one year older than her brother, Brian Walls. Maureen Walls is the youngest out of them all, being five years younger than her sister, Jeannette Walls. The Walls family spent a considerable part of their lives in 93 Little Hobart Street, Welch, West Virginia. The interview with all the kids took place in the house of the Walls family in Welch. The house is located in the poorest neighborhood of Welch. There was a leak in the roof over Brian Walls’ bed,

To begin the interview, she described her plan to move out of Welch with her sister, away from her family. Like Lori Walls, she also put in a lot of efforts to escape the house of the Walls family. She explained that she has always loved her father, but she slowly began to realize that her actual father does not fit the perfect image that her young six-year-old self sculpted her father into. A smile showed up on her face for a quick moment, and soon got replaced with a regretful frown. Jeannette Walls revealed that she has always believed and looked forward to the promise made by her father to build a glass castle, as a child. When she became more familiar with reality, however, she realized that the promise was never going to come true. By one point, the foundation they dug for the glass castle was filled up with garbage (238). By that moment, she lost complete trust in her father. Based on Maslow’s 8-Stage hierarchy of need, Jeannette Walls, belongingness and love needs were not met because her father constantly broke the promise between Jeannette Walls and showed that he did not care about his daughter as much as he said he does. This confused Jeannette Walls’ self-identity in the stage of ego identity versus role confusion in the Erikson’s psychological theory, at the age of thirteen. Due to the lack of care that she received from her father, and the lack of

She often has nightmares. She mentioned the memory of when she was five, and she was too terrified to sleep because she was worried that a rat was coming to get her (156). This fear was caused by the sanitary condition of the house. This fear of Maureen Walls demonstrates the unsatisfactory of the safety needs in Maslow’s 8-Stage hierarchy of need (Maslow). Another example of Maureen Walls’ safety needs(Maslow) being endangered was when a boy named Billy fired his BB gun to destroy the glass window of the house of the Walls. That incident terrified Maureen, and she said she began howling during the occurrence (88). She commented that she was too young to remember much details, but she does remember the fear that it brought to her. This endangered her safety, in which is a part of the necessary needs that humans should be able to meet. The safety needs, in this situation, is evidently not met. Putting such a young child in danger is a situation that should be dealt