The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, is a memoir of her life. She begins when she was only three years old, ending up in the hospital with burns on the majority of her body from lighting on fire from making hot dogs alone. We go through all of her childhood and the crazy experiences she endured. We see the different morals of her drunken father, and her dependent mother. We are able to see their growth from going along with the adventures of her parents, living in the car, sleeping under the stars in the desert, and the never ending moving around. With little money for the family of six, and the sometimes starving moments. The family goes through unimaginable times, yet it is all they know.
As they grow up, the hard times of their lives can't be hidden by stories and manipulative lives. The kids take things into their own hands to escape from the lives their parents have created for them. Eventually they all slowly make their way to New York.Yet, they can't escape their parents, they soon follow. They do what they can to take care of them, but in the end they choose to live their lives how they choose. We get a lot of insight of the how the children of the memoir all live, and take their lessons on with them. Plus, how they choose to live their own lives. My essay is about the beginning of the memoir, and even with the beginning of the story, how that creates enough information to gather the dynamic of this family.
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