Annotating (Glass Castle) Glass Castle Did you notice anything unusual about Jeannette Walls portrayal of poverty‚ or homelessness? * Even though they had bad times with food and other necessities‚ they still were happy as a family * When she was young‚ she viewed life as an adventure and when she got older and in West Virginia she started to see reality of her life and she didn’t want to be seen as the girl who lives in the beat up house and the family that didn’t always have food
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A person’s path to enlightenment and understanding can be tumultuous and challenging. In the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ each character has difficulty accepting reality. This makes them withdraw into their own little world of illusion to find a sense comfort and peace. In The Glass Menagerie‚ the author presents The Glass Menagerie as a metaphor for the Wingfield family along with other families during the Great Depression. In the setting of the Wingfield‚ family homeland might
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serene‚ extravagant - the glass castle. In the memoir‚ The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls‚ the image of the glass Castle was Jeannette’s symbol of trust in her dad that he would stop drinking and strike it rich to get them out of poverty‚ so that the family could live a better life. Jeannette’s father was an alcoholic and her mom was unmotivated. The family moved around frequently while living on their dad’s low paying series of odd jobs. While still believing in the glass castle and her father‚ Jeannette
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of space through perspective. But perspective implied continuity between the space of the viewer and that of the picture‚ and this was difficult to sustain when pictures were painted high up on walls. It was even harder when they were painted on ceilings‚ where the logical viewpoint was from underneath. Discuss the different approaches to space in the following two works‚ and why an artist might adopt one or the other. __________________________________________________________________ Annibale
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“ The Glass Menagerie” By: The props used in the play the glass menagerie are important to the development of the story. It helps us understand the situation and how each character deals with it. A lot of the props used in “The Glass Menagerie” are also symbols that helps us understand the situation of the characters. By the role that each prop has to the development in the play we can see an importance and also a symbolism in the story. Trough the props and the importance of it to the character
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The Glass Castle Do you think that too much change in a family can cause dysfunction? Well in the story “The Glass Castle” the author Jeanette Walls tells her story about how the changes in her family caused dysfunction amongst them. Through her experiences‚ she shows her readers how changes caused mainly by her father changed the lives of their family. In “The Glass Castle” the author uses simile‚ imagery‚ and flashback to show the message of change. The first element Jeanette used to show how
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never had the chance to live them while they still could‚ like Tom’s mother Amanda Wingfield. Then there are human beings who enjoy keeping to themselves and quite frankly do not have dreams‚ just like Tom’s sister Laura Wingfield. In Williams’ The Glass Menagerie‚ the three main characters have their own life plans but are all derailed because of each other’s influence on one another. Tom‚ Laura and Amanda all want to escape in their own individual ways.
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In the play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things.?Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion.?The first symbol‚ presented in the first scene‚ is the fire escape.?This represents the "bridge" between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality.?This "bridge" seems to be a one way excursion.?But the direction varies for each character.
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“The Glass Menagerie” In “The Glass Menagerie” Williams’s use of symbolism represents several different themes. Many of the symbols used in the play signify the impossibility of true escape‚ the differences between illusion and reality‚ abandonment‚ and the power of memory (as it is a memory play). One of the more obvious symbols that we notice is the fire escape. It represents the connection between the illusionary world of the characters and the “real” world. The fire escape represents something
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Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle‚ documents her childhood which is surrounded by poverty and inattentive parents. Both of the parents of the Walls children were self-absorbed in their own lives‚ the children learned that they must depend on each other to meet their own basic needs. Even though Rex Walls was an alcoholic and Rose-Mary was indulged in her paintings‚ they managed to teach their children the most important life lesson that well-rounded adults must know. The memoir expresses Jeannette’s
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