( question 1 glass castle metaphor) The metaphor the Glass Castle represents is a perfect life that the family cannot have. The dad is a drunk, he has this big plan to build a castle made of gold with a cooling system in the desert. The only thing that makes that metaphor true is that it is impossible, the castle would overheat. Jeanette is important because she is the reason why the dad wants to build the castle, Jeannette is his little “mountain goat”, the child that he is really want to make happy. If he builds this castle they can have a perfect life, that is why he focus so much on trying to improve his prospector.
(relationship with siblings)
Jeanette has a pretty good relationship with her siblings even though they have different
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She was put into a situation where life is a challenge, like the Joshua tree which is beautiful because of its struggle. “If situations like these, I realized, were what turned people into hypocrites”(Walls 144). During these pages she shows us the true meaning of life. She is friends with a African American. She shows us that other people have a rough time also, not just her and her family. Jeanette had a good life, she got a bike, travel around the world, and got to be friends with people. She cannot just go off and be a hypocrite, she shows us that life is more than living, but enjoying it as much as you can with the things you have. This is all achieved by writing it down in an effective Memoir and by using good mix of great and bad …show more content…
Yes they are your parents, but they did nothing to make her life better. Jeannette was put into situations she should had never had like being sexually assaulted by a juvenile delinquent and by a man who sneaked into her room. Yes her parents tried to make things better but because of their destructive mindset they cause chaos which is represented by fire that appears a lot in the book. If I were Jeannette I would let my parents know that they have not met the expectations of a normal and loving family. Her father is an unemployed drunk and her mom is a pythopatic who only cares about her art and books.
(Which parent is better)
Rosemary Walls is definitely the better parent and would be able to sustain a good family. First off the Mom. She was able to keep a job longer and be much more sufficient with the money then the dad who had lost multiple jobs. “Dad lost his job”(Walls 67) Also dad creates chaos in the house all the time making the family miserable. “ ‘Let’s really light up this Christmas,’ Dad said and thrust the lighter into the Douglas fir”(Walls 115).
In the book, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls is trying to tell us that her parents are taking her happiness away. In this section, young Jeannette is witnessing how her parents get into argument about money and disrespect people who are trying to help their condition. Walls says, “I thought Grandma Smith was great. But after a few weeks, she and Dad would always get into some nasty hollering match. It might start with Mom mentioning how short we were on cash” (Walls 20).
An archetype, according to Literary Terms, is an idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience. There are symbolic, character, and situational archetypes. The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, uses each archetype. The memoir captures Jeannette’s difficult life growing up due to her father’s alcoholism and inability to hold a job. These archetypes also play a crucial role in developing the novel’s theme. A central theme to the novel can be perseverance. Jeannette and her siblings grew up and managed to build a better life for themselves. They worked hard and never gave up, demonstrating perseverance.
This is a simile to make a picture in the reader's mind of what her early childhood was like and the struggles the Jeannette went through as she was growing up in the Walls family.
My family isn 't like the Walls family because my parents would never treat my sister and I like their parents treated them, my family and I have a decent living situation, and we would never hurt any animal. From the beginning, Rex and Rose Mary treated their kids wrong and didn 't take responsibility as parents. Every child deserves a loving home and should never have to worry if they are going to eat that night. West Virginia also seemed a lot different then because the laws are more strict now. The way the Walls are, they would get in trouble for the way they treated their kids, animals, and even their living space. "Mom always said people worry too much about their children. Suffering when you 're young is good for you, she said. It immunized
Could the dysfunction of the Walls family have fostered the extraordinary resilience and strength of the three older siblings through a collaborative set of rites of passage? One could argue that the unusual and destructive behavior of the parents forced the children into a unique collection of rites of passage that resulted in surprisingly resilient and successful adults. In moving back to Welch, Virginia, the children lost what minimal sense of security they may have enjoyed while living in their grandmother’s home in Arizona. The culture and climate (both socially and environmentally) along with an increased awareness of their poverty resulted in a significant loss of identity. As they learned new social and survival skills in this desperate environment, there is a powerful sense of camaraderie between the older children. Their awareness, drive and cunning survival skills while living in Welch result in a developing sense of confidence in their ability to survive anything. This transition, while wretched, sets the stage for their ability to leave their environment behind with little concern for a lack of success. As the children leave, one by one, to New York, they continue to support one another, and emerge as capable, resourceful young adults.
Positive thoughts lead to positive things happening, and that was what Rose Mary philosophy to dealing with her misfortune. Throughout the book, The Glass Castle, as trials are steadily placed in Walls’ life, she continuously uses a positive attitude to cope with her life. Mary seems to truly believe that the negative aspects in her life are positive because of the way that she thought about them. (ADD TRANSITION HERE) “Most pianists never get the chance to play in the great out-of-doors,” she said, “And now the whole neighborhood can enjoy it, too,” (53). Mary’s copes by producing a positive attitude. Instead of viewing the situation negatively, Mary thinks that she is lucky to have her piano stuck outside, and she views the problem as a fortunate
They made many mistakes but don’t seem to care much because they know their children will forgive them. Jeannette 's mother sees her weakness for her father and uses it against her. When ever she messed up she told the kids they “should forgive her the same way [they] always forgave Dad for is drink”(174). She expects them to forgive her just like they forgive their dad because she knows they always think the best of them. She messes up endless amounts of time but the kids forgive them every time because they care about them. They are very selfish, and exploit their kids love. Her father knows she has “a soft spot for him the way no one else in the family did, and he took advantage of it”(209). Jeannette know knows her dad is using her for her forgiveness, but she doesn’t seem to mind because she loves him so much. Her parents use their love to get what they want, and since the kids unconditionally love them. Her mother and father constantly need Jeannette’s help and love, more than she needs theirs. If jeannette ever says no they become disappointed and make her feel bad. But since they are family, they always stick
Education plays a big role in our daily lives. Education is commonly defined as a process of learning and obtaining knowledge. The story takes place beginning in the late 1950s to the early 2000s. Jeannette Walls is the main character of the story and the narrator. She tells the events of her life living with careless and yet loving parents. This family of six lived in many cities and towns and went through tough states to stay alive. Her mother and father never kept a good steady job, but they had great intelligence. Jeannette and her siblings barely went to school to get the proper education they needed. In the book The Glass Castle, author Jeanette Walls discovers the idea that a conservative education may possibly not always be the best education due to the fact that the Walls children were taught more from the experiences their parents gave them than any regular school or textbook could give them. In this novel readers are able to get an indication of how the parents Rex and Rosemary Walls, choose to educate and give life lessons to their children to see the better side of their daily struggles.
Jeanette Walls is the picture-perfect illustration of an individual who finds righteousness for herself. She is the protagonist in the book “The Glass Castle”, who has an unfair miserable childhood due to how her parents were. Walls stands out for her determination as she goes out to the real world to seek her own justice, with the ultimate goal of being stable for once, and take responsibility for herself, not for the whole family.
When the topic of childhood memory pops up in a conversation the listeners would think the story teller is telling the truth right? Well, what if I said that the people telling the stories might not even know if they aren’t? When these stories are told most don’t realize the little bit of memory actually involved. So how much or it is true and how much it came from another inaccurate place? Where could something like that come from? Were Jennette Walls’ memories real? Does this affect you or is it not a big dilemma? Should these be considered There are several different debates within itself but the main one to focus on is are your memories even your memories?
When you think about your childhood, how would you describe it? Lonely? Happy? Different? Chaotic? Restrictive? Angry? Whatever word or phrase you use to describe your childhood, undoubtedly you would agree that how we are raised as children impact and shape our life as we grow up. Whether we duplicate our parents style of teaching, habits, or behavior we usually are affected by what we see and deem to be the right or wrong course of action. In The Glass Castle, the Walls children experience a very dysfunctional, chaotic, and untraditional way of life. Their parents believe in nonconformity and they are very permissive in terms of parenting. They would spend most of their time wrapped up in their own interests foregoing
Fire. Neglect. Sexual Molestation. No one child should have to face what Jeannette Walls had to endure as a young child. However, Walls clearly shows this chaos and the dysfunctional issues that she had to overcome while she was growing up. Within her memoir, The Glass Castle, Walls incorporates little things that were important in her life in order to help the reader understand her story even more. These little things amount to important symbolisms and metaphors that help to give the story a deeper meaning and to truly understand Jeannette and her family’s life.
Jeanette was extremely cultivating. Jeanette was her father's preeminent child, she felt like she had an extraordinary bond with him and they got along great. Just as any other girl though, Jeanette was going through the stage where the boys started to like her, but she didn't have “those” feelings for them. When a boy Billy took advantage of her, she didn't tell anyone because she was scared of what her family would think and do to this boy. It didn't happen often where she would meet a boy because they were always moving around so much. Jeanette didn't think anything of being poor, her family was the local pariah. Her parents being to tell lies and stories so it wouldn't seem that bad, but even if she knew the truth she would have been alright. As he started to mature she started to see gaps the stories her parents would tell her but still went along with
Tennessee Williams’ play, “The Glass Menagerie”, depicts the life of an odd yet intriguing character: Laura. Because she is affected by a slight disability in her leg, she lacks the confidence as well as the desire to socialize with people outside her family. Refusing to be constrained to reality, she often escapes to her own world, which consists of her records and collection of glass animals. This glass menagerie holds a great deal of significance throughout the play (as the title implies) and is representative of several different aspects of Laura’s personality. Because the glass menagerie symbolizes more than one feature, its imagery can be considered both consistent and fluctuating.
Symbolism is an integral part of every play. The author uses symbolism in order to add more depth to the play. In Tennessee Williams’ play, The Glass Menagerie, he describes three separate characters, their dreams, and the harsh realities they face in a modern world. The Glass Menagerie exposes the lost dreams of a southern family and their desperate struggle to escape reality. Everyone in the play seeks refuge from their lives, attempting to escape into an imaginary world. Williams uses the fire escape as a way for the Wingfields, the protagonists of the play, to escape their real life and live an illusionary life. The fire escape portrays each of the character's need to use the fire escape as a literal exit from their own reality.