The Glass Castle And To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Society negatively influences individuals and the life choices made. In brief, the three books The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare all show the negative impacts society can have on individuals. In the book The Glass Castle, the Walls a poverty stricken family, lives a poor life without food and barely any shelter. Jeannette, the middle daughter changes their lives forever, and for the better and succeeds the most. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, a mysterious town with a mysterious boy where everyone is against him, rumors flow around. His past young self got to his head and no one trusts him any more. One person in particular still believes in him and gets

Jeanette in The Glass Castle unfortunately lived in a time where blacks and whites weren’t completely equal. This didn’t bother Jeannette and her family one bit, but it greatly bothered the older generations. “Keep this up and people will think you’re a nigger lover” (Walls 143). Because of the age difference between Jeannette and Erma, the life lessons each one learned was very different. Erma, because she is older and used to the “old ways,” is used to life between the black people and the white people being completely separated. Jeannette being the young and newer generation, they treat everyone equally no matter the color of their skin. Erma describes interacting and treating everyone equally as being a “nigger lover” (143). Because Jeannette is scared of Erma, she eventually stops talking and hanging out with her black friends. Erma pushed Jeannette to be scared of what society would think of her if she continued being friends with black people. Jeannette didn’t want society to look badly on her because they already do. Jeannette and her family are almost already the most poor family on the street. Because of this, Jeannette already doesn’t fit in the best around people and she didn’t want to be known as a “nigger lover” of the whole town. Throughout the town, there are two sides, people who like black people and talk to them or ones who don’t like them. There are two sides to

In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette is trying to make her own life better by moving to a city with better opportunities. Because she needs the right guidance for once in her life, she goes to her school counselor that steers her wrong. “That would be a terrible mistake. You live here. Think of what you’d miss” (Walls 236). Jeannette is trying to surround herself with better influences than her parents. Jeannette can barely trust her parents as it is. Jeannette tries everything she can to make things better but nothing works. “Think of what you’d miss” (236). The diction in the quote makes it seem like Jeannette has things to miss moving away from welch. “Think” (236) is all Jeannette has to do but there is nothing good that came to her while living in Welch. Jeannette's counselor made Jeannette believe that there would be things that she would miss. She made Jeannette think that all the people she met and all the things there were to do in Welch that she would miss it all. Jeannette was told to believe that leaving wasn’t a good idea and she would succeed just as well in Welch as she would in New York. Jeannette looked ahead and went against society's expectations like she has her whole life and succeeded more than she would have in Welch. Just like Jeannette was told to believe Welch had everything she needed, Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird was told to believe that Boo Radley was an awful