Essays On The Glass Castle

This amazing story of survival and dysfunction, of imagination and rationalization, and of shear ingenuity is a testimony to the flexibility and beauty of children. Jeannette Walls’ true story flashes back through a childhood with crazy addicted parents (the father to alcohol; the mother to art and idealism and the father) who raised three children […]

After several years of keeping her childhood a secret, Jeannette Walls decided it was time to write a memoir, The Glass Castle. Walls and her siblings experience a childhood that consists of hardships and struggles that most children do not have a clue about today. The Glass Castle assesses Wall’s struggles as a child and […]

Constantly Moving But Never Changing Traveling as a family should be one of the safest and most worry free times you experience as a child. You bestow all your trust upon your parents without even realizing it and you expect to be in good hands. You expect your family to keep you away from bad […]

While riding in a taxi, Jennet encountered her homeless mother on the street, dressed in tattered clothes and searching through trash. This sight filled Jennet with shame regarding her mother’s appearance, prompting her to go back to her residence on Park Avenue. Despite having access to luxurious possessions, Jennet felt remorseful for contributing to her […]

Assignment the Glass Castle A. Jeannette Walls, in her memoir The Glass Castle, demonstrates Erikson’s eight stages of development. Through the carefully recounted stories of her childhood and adolescence, we are able to trace her development from one stage to the next. While Walls struggles through some of the early developmental stages, she inevitably succeeds […]