Often people struggle most of their lives, get nowhere, Jeannette Walls showed otherwise by becoming a successful woman in the city of New York. Jeannette Walls grew up just about everywhere, from one end of the country to the other. She constantly lived in a car with her parents as a child even if they stayed in a certain place for a while. The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls where she talks about her life growing up with her three siblings and her parents, Rex and Rose Mary Walls. She goes through the struggles as a child and how certain things made her feel. She also goes on to tell us about her life when she moves on to a life she feels is better for her. I believe that Jeannette’s family impacted her in many ways, some of the ways that stood out the most included helping her become a caring person and she was also very intelligent.
Jeannette was a lot of things during The Glass Castle and one of the main things was caring. For instance, she didn’t really interact with her parents all that often she did talk to her brother, Brian a lot and sometimes she talked to her older sister, Lori. When it came to any of her siblings she was always trying to make sure they survived over time it became Brian who she always ended up seeming to help the most. During the time when they first moved to Welch, they struggled to keep food on the table. “Brian and I became expert foragers.” This quote shows that since they didn’t have food at home they had to find food somehow. I know that they rarely had food so they had to get it somehow and this quote shows how. Anytime Jeannette did find food she tried to save it for him, if she couldn’t she found some other way to get him some food and she never went without thinking about her brother. “The first time I found extra food-- A bologna- and-cheese sandwich-- I stuffed it into my purse to take home for Brian.” This quote shows that even in the biggest predicaments, like not having lunch at school, Jeannette thought of her brother.
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During the story, Jeannette was called many things one of those things was smart. Jeannette was very smart at a young age she could do things some adults can’t even do right now. “By the time I was four, I was pretty good with Dad’s pistol… and could hit five out of six beer bottles at thirty paces.” Therefore this shows that Jeannette not only was a fast learner but it also shows how mature she is. She is able to quickly grasp new concepts and put them to use. Later in the story, Jeannette goes and again shows how smart she is by having to sew up her dad’s arm. “ I pushed the needle and felt a slight tug when it pierced the skin… I pushed a little harder and felt the resistance of Dad’s flesh.” Additionally, this quote showed not only her smarts but her bravery. She had done a lot of things for her dad but his one was one of the scariest because she wasn’t sure she could do it. With the persuasion of her dad, she was able to do it and do it well.
In conclusion, I have come up with the fact that while people see that the Walls family did nothing but cause other family members havoc, that’s not true. On one hand, they did do things that only hurt others but on the other, they worked together to help make sure each child was successful as an adult. For example, if they hadn’t had done all that moving, they wouldn’t have met the men who inspired Jeannette to be a journalist. My paper shows the good things the family did but it also doesn’t leave out the bad that also happened during that time. People believe that just because a family has had so many struggles in life that the family will turn out bad, the Walls family showed just the opposite. To show this you can look at how the three oldest got amazing jobs, a journalist, an artist, and a police officer. Again, people see the Walls as a bad family but overall they weren’t.
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