Childhood Story Of Jeannette Walls In The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls

The Glass Castle paints the childhood story of Jeanette Walls. This memoir tells the story of a deeply dysfunctional Walls family. Her father, when sober, gave them his version of education, teaching them physics and geology at an early age. He always told them to live life fearlessly, but when he was drunk, they lived in fear of him doing too much destruction. Her mother encouraged them to view their struggles as an adventure. And as they slowly adapted to that way of living, they tried their hardest to help around the house. This book begins with the older Jeannette Walls, riding in a car in New York and spotting her mother rummaging through the trash. She was ashamed of her parents, so she avoided them as much as she could. She begins

She was hospitalized for about six weeks and spent that time enjoying chewing gum, rare visits from family, and kind nurses. Instead of paying the lengthy bills, her dad pulled a “skedaddle” and picked her up from the bed and left the hospital. Shortly after this, they leave the trailer park they lived in. They spent the night camping under the stars. And that is how most of their “skedaddles” worked. The family lived in many places and created their own adventures. The father always said the FBI agents were chasing him, but her mother said it was bill collectors. That was part of their adventure, creating wild stories to make their non-ideal situation an ideal one. Because of their “pioneer” lifestyle, Jeanette and her siblings never attended school regularly, instead her parents taught her survival skills as well as math. Out of the many places the Walls family lived, Phoenix was one of them. After Jeanette’s mother’s grandmother passed away, her mother inherited a house for them to live in. This is the first steady home the family had lived in. Dad is able to keep a steady line of jobs for a while, but soon his alcohol problem gets the best of him. Around the time of her tenth birthday, Jeanette asks her father to stop drinking as her birthday present. He does well for a couple weeks, but then after car trouble and car ride back with a stranger, Dad returns to his old

She believed it would be good for the family and her husband’s drinking habits. A little while after moving to Welch, Dad’s mom took sexual advantage of Brain while their parents were away. Lori later suggests that their grandmother might of done those things to Dad when he was younger. Besides that, the town of Welch is a depressing town that is segregated and not welcoming. Mom and Dad buy a shack at the top of a hill for the family to live in, which is practically falling apart. With dad’s drinking increasing and the kids getting hungrier and thinner, the kids are on their final straw. Lori and Jeannette devise a plan: After Lori graduates she will move to New York and then Jeanette will follow her there. After the both of them have moved out, they bring both Maureen and Brian to live with them so they can get away. They all find jobs quickly and live in an apartment together. Soon after their parents move to New York because they feel abandoned by their children. Since neither of them have a steady job, they become squatters in an abandoned