Reflection Essay The book The Glass Castle written by Jeanette Walls in 2005, portrays her dysfunctional family and her difficulties growing up. As a child Jeanette’s family is constantly moving from place to place and is struggling to make enough money to simply eat and live in a decent house. Jeanette’s father, Rex Walls, makes it quite difficult to live as a well-financed family because of the money he spent to fund his persistent drinking. In one scene of The Glass Castle, Lori, Jeanette’s older sister, Brian and Jeanette are at home and they are sitting around in their house with no food and no money to buy food. The excerpt “‘Dad needs to start carrying his weight.” Lori said as she stared into the empty refrigerator.
Her memoir “Unpolished Gem” tells the story of young Alice Pung as the main character and her family couldn’t fully belong to the Australian society because of some barriers. Alice is a Chinese Cambodian immigrant who went to Australia. In her early childhood in Australia, she even wet her pants because she was not brave enough to ask permission to go to the
As she chose to attend a classroom setting I made my decision to attend school online. My thought of online school is that and a Classroom setting is that both can have its advantages and disadvantages. Because I am a mom of three kids and one on the way online schooling is best for me because I am able to do my house work and take care of the kids. And I am always sick so I am able to do my school work when I have the most energy. But for my sister she has to go back and forth spending a lot of money on gas, then she has to get her home work in on time plus she has to deal with her two children and also house work.
Ruma is married and her husband is an American with the two of them having a three-year-old son named Akash. In addition, they are also expecting another child, and she is very isolated. In the story, her husband’s work commitments make them shift base to Seattle, which is the cause of her isolation as she is not familiar with anyone in the city. Additionally, she has also been forced to leave out employment and look after their son before resuming her schooling. However, in spite of herself, Ruma discovers that the life she is living is the same one she had always contended was below
(BODY) (KEY POINT) Alice Munro depicts childhood attitude of the narrator when she remembers her childhood. (SUPPORTING DETAILS) She has an eight years old friend Steve Gauley, drowned. It seemed a worse shame that there was no mother, no grandmother, aunt or even sister to received Steve Gauley and give him his due respect. He has a father who saw Steve as an accident to his life. The funeral held in their house and her mother did most of the arranging of Steve funeral.
It is the middle of the Great Depression and Jacob’s parents were in great debt. Jacob’s father owned his own practice and when people could not afford to pay him he would let them pay with eggs or other items, and sometimes nothing at all. They also took out a mortgage on the house to pay for Jacob’s school tuition, so the house belonged to the bank. Jacob kept walking, not knowing what else to do or where to go. Since Jacob’s family emigrated from Poland he has no other family, no home, and no degree.
She never learned to be self-reliant. The case of the Walls family is a perfect demonstration of how adversity in one’s life does in fact play a role in the development of their character. Their whole life, Lori, Jeannette, and Brian had to take care of themselves. Some days they would go without food and were forced to eat nothing but butter and sugar because their dad could never hold on to a job for very long and their mother refused to get one because she only wanted to pursue her dream to become an artist. As young kids, when they didn’t have any food, Jeannette would “find something in some other kid’s lunch bag” (Walls 68) at school or “grab something out of the refrigerator” (Walls 68) when visiting a friend’s house.
Name Ahmed Professor Kim Sasser Class 2350 Date 07 March 2012 Critical Article Summary Schwartz , Nina .”No Place Like Home : The Logic Of The Supplement In Jane Eyre .”Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte . Ed.Beth Newman.Bedford Case Study In Criticism.2Nd Ed.Boston:Bedford, 1996.549- 64. Print. Schwartz in her essay” No Place like home “in Jane Eyre starts with many issues like Jane’s childhood as ” victim of forces and her bad luck on the one hand and the bad behavior of adults on the other hand ” (549) . Schwartz mentioned a good example when “ Jane was infant, who was orphaned by the death of her parents, and how Jane became the ward of a woman who always abused ,then she moved on to explain when Jane was as a little girl , who experienced her circumstances as arbitrary , which were beyond her power to change , also she explains the gap that happened in Jane’s childhood and her adultness and how she represents herself and how that ambiguity run” (549) .
Book Report The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Summary: In this story, the protagonist is Jeannette Walls who tells her readers all about her life in an abusive, dysfunctional family. We learn through her that nothing in the dynamic of family relationships is ever-just black and white. Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains.
Her husband left early on in Emily’s life and her mother was forced to leave her with friends or send her to day care. “…and I did not know then what I know now- the fatigue of the long day, and the lacerations of group life in the kinds of nurseries that are only parking places for children” (Olsen 707). Emily got nowhere near the amount of attention she needed. Maggie, on the other hand, was always with her mother. Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family.