The Power to Overcome Sid Udayan January 10, 2012 ENG4U1 Ms. Skakic
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. This is evident in Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, which reiterates the story of Jeannette who is raised within a family that is both deeply dysfunctional and distinctively vibrant. Jeannette is faced with numerous barriers throughout her life. Despite the many obstacles set forth by her parents during her childhood, Jeannette develops into a successful adult later in life. One of these obstacles is the lack of a stable home base moulds her into the woman she grows up to be. Throughout her life, Jeannette must cope with the carelessness of her 69). Jeannette challenges her mother for the first time by breaking one of her unspoken rules, that their lives are a long and incredibly fun adventure. She is finally able to realize that Rose Mary is selfish and puts herself in front of her family, forcing Jeannette to take on more responsibilities within the family in order to provide for her siblings. Rose Mary’s inability to provide for her family stems from the fact that she is simply lazy. She has a teacher’s degree and only attempts to find work when times are utterly grim, but she eventually quits so she can devote more time to herself instead of her family; “’It’s time I did something for myself,’... ‘It’s time I started living my life for me.’...‘Why do I always have to be the one who earns the money?’... ‘You have a job. You can earn money. Lori can earn money, too. I’ve got more important things to do,’” (pg. 218). It is significant that Jeannette sees that although her mother has the opportunity to work, she refuses and once again puts her needs before those of the family. The opportunity to work however is, embraced by Jeannette who wants nothing more than to help her family when they are in need. As such, she looks for work wherever she can find it, while Rose Mary remains unemployed. Unconditional loyalty is another trait that Rose Mary possesses which Jeannette is unable to understand. How her mother can accept and live with the abuse of her father is an
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The book The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls tell the story of Jeanette’s life while she moves from city to city with her very outspoken family. She lives with her younger brother Brian, younger sister Maureen, her mother and father and her older sister Lori. Lori is the oldest of the four Walls children. She is very bright and talented. Lori had much compassion for her younger siblings and her parents as a young girl. Whenever someone would fight or get into an argument Lori would…
The Glass Castle The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, is an autobiographical novel that shows how hard life can be when you have little to no money and highly deteriorated parents. During the whole memoir it shows how hard it is to live in poverty while at the same time trying to raise a family. The exposition of the novel is how having parents that cannot support their children because the lack of a stable income. The rising action is when Jeannette was in a taxi cab going to a party…
Running head: SOCIAL PROBLEM ANALYSIS OF THE GLASS CASTLE 1 Social problem analysis of The Glass Castle-------The impact of the alcoholism Ying Wan SWRK 725 Saint Louis University Professor Shannon Cooper-Sadlo SOCIAL PROBLEM ANALYSIS OF THE GLASS CASTLE 2 Abstract The paper talks about the social problems presented in the book The Glass Castle. And choose one problem which is alcoholism as the major one to explored in depth. It included the population affected…
Synthesis Essay 10/26/07 Alcoholism and the Effects on a Family Alcoholism, although thought mostly of its impact on the alcoholic themselves, it is also a very present problem in the ruining of his or her friends and their families lives. Someone who may be a fully functional, great person to his or her family may be extremely dangerous, dishonest, and destructive while they are under the influence of alcohol. This instance occurs in "The Glass Castle" with Rex…
Determination In “The Glass Castle” we see many different possibilities pertaining to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. We see the father, Rex and one of the daughters, Maureen, who fall victim to Maslow. Then there’s Jeanette and the mother, Rose Mary who have both seemed to achieve self-actualization regardless of their hardships. Traditionally, Maslow’s Hierarchy is thought to be achieved by working up from the bottom of the pyramid to get to the top. However, in “The Glass Castle” this is not particularly…
“Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe Rabinowitz, Daniel Theme Essay: Character, Setting, and Symbolism English 8 Period 3 CA Standard: Literary Response and Analysis 3.5 January 12 2013 Inevitable Faith In “The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, the theme is that nobody, no matter how rich you are, can cheat death. The main character of this story is a greedy, vein, egregious prince names Prospero. In the story, a devastating plague is going around the kingdom dropping…
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Mitch Miller English 0950 Essay #1 final draft 9/30/2013 Prof. Weihe Cornfusion It is easy to think that a greenhouse does not do much more then selling plants and watering those plants, this could not be farther from the truth. The spring at a greenhouse is mostly selling plants, but when the later summer comes around there is not much demand for plants anymore, due to the fact that allot of the plants that are sold will die when our aggressive Minnesota winter comes. Before the winter comes…
Barry Bishop Period 2 10/8/14 Great Gatsby Essay The Empty Body and Full Heart Gatsby may be hollow, but his priorities are in order. The poem by T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” and the character of James Gatsby from The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, have striking resemblance. The poem’s first stanza depicts a man with no real substance, just as the character Gatsby. For Gatsby, he is a shell of a man, perusing his goal of Daisy; Years do not diminish this passion, nor do wars, or husbands. On…
