Resilience In The Glass Castle

Human resilience is one of the requirements in one's life to survive and open up the path to success. There have been many great examples of human resilience throughout history. One of the examples of human resilience is shown in the memoir: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Human resilience is the process of adapting to the way of life instead of complaining about what is not present as shown clearly in The Glass Castle by the struggles Jeannette Walls faces in her childhood, her teenage years, and the turning point of her life.

In Jeannette’s childhood, she faced many difficulties and roads that seem to lead to disasters after disaster. She faced those troubles very strongly. Once, Jeannette fell out of the car as she and her family moved away once again. Even though, her family did not come back to get her straight away, she still had faith that they will come to get her. This showed how she adapted to how non-observant her family members are, and she trusted them since she knew they loved her dearly. She also looks at moving around as an adventure so that she would be able to live her life to the fullest and not wither at the thought of what she did not have.Her siblings helped her fight against the other children that overpowered her. They worked
Jeannette Walls flowed with the river and accepted what she had and when the chance came to choose a path from many, she pushed with the current of the river to go to the path that she finds will be the best for her. She got blocked with rocks, but she went over it to get to her path to success, and the life she thought best for herself. At last she found a life she searched for all her life. This is how resilience rewards