The Glass Castle Reflection
“The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls is an extremely intriguing novel that really kept my attention throughout the whole story. The Walls family is definitely one that is unlike any I’ve ever come across, and the lessons that the children learned were ones that helped shaped their lives and made them who they are today. Jeanette obviously learned so much from her experience that she wrote a whole book about it, managing to hold the reader’s attention through all 281 pages. Jeanette Walls goes through many descriptions of situations that she faced that people normally should not face. For most of her childhood, she was traveling from place to place because her parents always thought that they would hit it big and never finding a steady job.
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People in poverty never seem to be too happy about it, and always want to try to find a way out, but that was not the case with the Walls family. They just made the best out of what they could get and always tried to make it a fun adventure even though it might seem like hell for a middle class person. An example of that was when they were living in Battle Mountain in the train depot for a few years. “Our new home was one of the oldest buildings in town, Mom proudly told us, with a real frontier quality to it.” (pg. 51) Jeanette’s Mom always tried to make the best of what they had and always looked at things positively, even though there were not many positive things happening in their lives. It was also the same when they moved into the beaten down shack on the side of a mountain in West Virginia. The house had no plumbing and was unskillfully wired for electricity which they could hardly afford. The family would even go on streaks of starvation because they would have no money, but they still managed to survive and make the best of it. Her parents seemed well educated and always taught the kids life lessons about what was right and wrong. Jeanette and her siblings always got mocked and taunted in school because of the poor background of their family, but they were taught to stand up for what they believed in because they knew that they would become better people if they did
People in poverty never seem to be too happy about it, and always want to try to find a way out, but that was not the case with the Walls family. They just made the best out of what they could get and always tried to make it a fun adventure even though it might seem like hell for a middle class person. An example of that was when they were living in Battle Mountain in the train depot for a few years. “Our new home was one of the oldest buildings in town, Mom proudly told us, with a real frontier quality to it.” (pg. 51) Jeanette’s Mom always tried to make the best of what they had and always looked at things positively, even though there were not many positive things happening in their lives. It was also the same when they moved into the beaten down shack on the side of a mountain in West Virginia. The house had no plumbing and was unskillfully wired for electricity which they could hardly afford. The family would even go on streaks of starvation because they would have no money, but they still managed to survive and make the best of it. Her parents seemed well educated and always taught the kids life lessons about what was right and wrong. Jeanette and her siblings always got mocked and taunted in school because of the poor background of their family, but they were taught to stand up for what they believed in because they knew that they would become better people if they did