The Glass Castle In The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls, I do not believe that the writer has just one approach in the way she conveys the memoir of growing up in a family that is clearly dysfunctional, but is unique in so many ways. She presents her story using all three approaches, which include the Conflict Perspective, the Interactionist Perspective and the Feminist Perspective. Jeannette Walls conveys the message that how an individual responds to what life has dealt them does not always depend on how they were raised, or what they inherited from others. She gives an intimate look at how the family interacts with one another and how the children learn to take care of themselves and watch out for each other. She also shows how in society it is traditionally the man’s responsibility to support his family and make sure that their needs are taken care of.
In that agent she would have learned the values and customs of society. She was also not exposed to the agent of peer group. In the agent of peer group we learn how to be friends. Sounds like a basic thing, one we could even do without, but it is very important in development. Nell was never exposed to mass media or technology growing up.
“Living alone and impotent in an inimical world.” The person I choose to reflect my theory on is Shantay Fields. She is not my biological sister, but my mother has raised her since she was a baby and my mother is all she knew. So, I consider her being my biological sister since my mother raised her. I chose Shantay above others because she is an outstanding single mother to a smart, wonderful, and bright sixteen year old daughter by the name of Tatyana Fields. She had her daughter at a young age and with no help from her father, she did it all by herself.
As we grow from children into teenagers, no one can teach us how to deal with peer pressure. As we leave adolescence behind and enter adult life, no one can teach us how to fall in love and get married. This shouldn’t stop us from looking for guidelines along the way. Teachers and parents are valuable sources of advice when we’re young. As we enter into new stages in our lives, the advice we receive from them is very helpful because they have already bad similar experiences.
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.
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.
My mother nor my father bothered to take an active role within my life so therefore I had been living with my great-grandmother since I was an infant. Today, I have the utmost love and respect for her and everything that she and my grandfather had done and are still doing for me, but at the time I was a bitter teenager who did not understand why my family situation was so grim. Although my mother wasn’t completely absent within my life, time and time again she had chosen narcotics over me and my younger sister and was content with us living with my grandmother and not her. In her mind, and to this day she still believes that it is best that we are/were with her ignoring what having an absentee mother psychologically does to her children. She tended to visit and call us at her leisure, and for that I was spiteful.
I know that I could let my 10 year old daughter walk to school by herself, but with shooting all the time I walk her to school. Sometimes, I get scared just sitting in my house doing nothing. It’s crazy to know that you are not even safe in your own home. The gangs are taking over society and holding us hostage in our homes. I don’t let my kids play outside, because of the violence.
American families would view single parenting as a threat to a family structure. Doing everything by themselves with no one else to blame but themselves is one of the most difficult things a single mother can struggle with. As time progresses a single mother discovers she is capable of doing so much not just for their well being but for her children. They quickly learn how to adapt and over come. While many single mothers worry too much or regret decisions during their children childhood they are satisfied with the result and the out come of there children by the actions their children make after they grown out of their childhood In “I stand here ironing” a mother depicts her first child to have a bad early childhood by making the wrong decision not by choice but simply what got handed to them in a urban world.
The revelation of her poverty to the people she meets, who doesn’t exactly give her the things she needs, makes her feel mortified. There are countless needs for an individual in poverty, which they do not receive. When Parker sought for help she got it but it was barely enough for the necessities she and her children need. She uses logos to explain the cause and effect of the seventy-eight dollars she gets every month. She pays twenty dollars rent and the “rest goes for food.” This is the reason why she and her children can’t get the other necessities they need, including the children’s education.