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Jeannette Walls Book Report

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Jeannette Walls is a little girl at the age of six living in a car traveling a lot because her parents' her dad a scammer and her mother a follower and an artist. In the early mid 70s Jeannette is young traveling through the desert of Arizona and Nevada region. In the desert stays at a 70 degree temperature. Jeannette at six has a small figure, scrawny legs and arms. She has long brown hair. With Jeannette being so young in the book she's dependent on how her parents build her character as she grows older, and where she explores the world. Jeannette Walls is six years old when her book starts out, and her brain maturity has been already in her teens, she's told to cook for herself and care for herself. When her little sister was or her mother hands her off to Jeannette in all of the book traveling periods. Jeannette only has one family and is too young to understand the majority of the actions her parents take are dangerous and small minded. Having nowhere else to go even though Jeanette never says she wants to leave her family, she has no choice to stay with them because she may not know how to live on her own at six years old. An example of her parents behavior that scares Jeanette is when she was young, she was cooking hot dogs alone in the kitchen standing on a chair she caught herself on fire and it took her mom a few moments to realise …show more content…

Jeanette grows up living and being pushed around by her parents. Understanding her perspective of her childhood helps us compare that not all children are raised the same. She grew up poor and on the run from whatever trouble her dad got them into. She did not grow up rich or middle class. The lesson taken away from their story if that not all parents' methods of raising their children are easy or reasonable, but not know the do's and don'ts on the wrong and rights or feeding

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While they provided Jeanette with food, they left her on her own to cook for herself and it led to her getting burned, meaning their permissiveness resulted in injury. Although it’s because of higher expectations of maturity, the Walls had little to no rules for their children to

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In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls family is considered homeless and they are constantly moving from place to place. They constantly find themselves either with a somewhat decent amount of money or at times, no money at all. Jeannette, being one of four children always follows along with and listens to her parents and eventually notices that their family does things very differently than most other families. As Jeannette explains her childhood and how she is being raised by her parents, it is clear to see how different Rex and Rosemary’s parenting style is compared to the parenting style of other parents. Since their parenting style is so different, it seems that it affects their children in a negative way throughout their childhood, but in the end it makes Jeannette become a better and more successful person.

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She struggled with how the society and her family shaped who she was. She was exposed to her family first which made her behave the way she did under her family’s house. Jeanette struggled with her family by taking care of the house, beings told bending the rules is okay and the acceptance of her Mom’s and Dad’s homelessness. When Jeannette left her family and went to live in New York, she becomes an individual. She fends for herself and gets her life together.

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After graduating middle school her friend lost touch with her and eventually left her life for good: “By the time she got to Welch High Dinitia changed.” Jeannette was also sexually harassed by one of her friends in Phoenix while playing hide-and-seek: “Billy smushed his face against mine… ‘Guess what?’Billy shouted. ‘I raped you’” Lastly, while going to school in Phoenix Jeannette was bullied for being smart and skinny: “The other students didn’t like me much because I was so tall and pale and skinny and always raised my hand too fast… A few days after I started school, four Mexican girls followed me home and jumped me in an alleyway…”

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It is crucial to Jeanette’s development that she recognizes the need to be independent and to acknowledge the drive and determination required to succeed in life. Without the ability to persevere and push oneself past their fears, a person will inevitably fail, something Jeanette will not tolerate. In another example, while

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Throughout the book, Jeanette’s parents always said that they would work something out in the end. Thankfully, she did not rely on them her whole life. She worked by herself and made it to New York. However, she did rely on her sister to bring her there. If it was not for her sister living there and offering Jeanette an opportunity, then she would have not been able to reach success as a writer.

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Jeanette wanted to escape Welch because of her unstable lifestyle, but she had fully given up on her parents. As she created her plan to escape, she said: “I had been counting on Mom and Dad to get us out, but I now knew I had to do it on my own” (Walls 221). She had finally realized that she could not rely on

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