The Glass Castle Trauma Essay

The recovery of trauma in The Glass Castle Is it possible to recover from trauma? In Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle , Jeanette tells the story about her childhood, and how she became somebody even after the many obstacles she faced in her childhood including poverty, lack of education, and how she tends to forgive the things that hurt her. Although Jeanette faces all of these challenges, she still tells a story where she becomes successful. The novel is a biography of young Jeanette recalling and telling her story as an adult, who has the capability to recite her childhood traumas.

Jeanette grows up not allowing herself to call one house a home. The Walls family are always on a run, moving houses consistently. As Jeanette also has to move

Jeanette's parents brought her up by never being scared of what fears you. When Jeanette was three, her first fire incident occurred, where she was cooking herself, and the flames caught on her clothing, burning her body into a crisp. Jeanette was taken to the hospital, and the nurses said she was lucky to be alive, as they “took patches of skin from my upper thigh and put them over the most badly burned parts of my stomach, ribs and chest.” ( Walls, 10). After this incident happened and Jeanette was back home to recover, she got right back to cooking her hotdogs herself. Jeannete went back to something that hurt her, almost killed her. Jeanettes mom is nothing but supportive about Jeanette getting right back into cooking again. “Good for you, mom said when she saw me cooking, you've got to get right back in the saddle. You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire”. ( Walls,15) Jeanette's passion for fire exponentially grows, as she encounters more fires throughout the novel, she is intrigued by the outcome the fire has, and wants to reach out to it. “I was always on the lookout for bigger fires. Whenever neighbors burned trash, I ran over and watched the blaze trying to escape the garbage can” ( Walls,15). Jeanette and her siblings have encountered occasions when they thought their parents would leave them instantly forever, and they were willing to forgive them. “I had to forgive them for coming back, " I told myself. If I didn't believe, then they might not return-