Category: Drama

Resilience By Empathy While being faced when growing up with adverse conditions, humanity possesses endurance and the ability to accept and forgive those responsible. In Jeannette Walls ‘ The Glass Castle (2005), Walls shows the ability of a child to develop resilience in the face of difficulty, early independence, and eventually redemption for all the…

Jeanette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle, recounts the unconventional chronicles of Jeanettes unusual childhood marked by tenacious poverty and a chaotic lifestyle embodied at the hands of her dysfunctional parents and their errant manner of living. Exceptional attention to Jeanettes story arises as although her parents were observed as irresponsible, remiss, and inattentive, they did…

Book: The Glass Castle Author: Jeannette Walls Date: 9/4/19 I am on page 288 of 288 I give this book 5 out of 5 stars This reading is captivating and heartfelt The question I chose is: If this book has already been made into a movie and you have watched the movie, how are the…

For generations, mental illnesses were not considered a sickness or a problem that was worth talking about. As time passes and change happens, new illnesses began to rise as people begin to understand the reality of the problems that came with mental illnesses. The mind is so complex that there are discoveries of new mental…

How the Mother is Psychoanalytically important in the story In The Glass Castle including her hierarchy of needs. Her Id and superego are used in many situations throughout the story. She abuses her lifestyle making there will always be a happy ending to her interactions and if there isn’t there is always a fight or…

I think that many Americans dont trust the government. Maybe it’s part of that breaking off from the British. I think for most people this is a cultural thing, but for Rex Walls, a character in the memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls it is a reaction to his life experiences. Rex is an…

Instead of worrying about what cannot be controlled, an individual must shift their energy into what can be created (Roy T. Bennett). Jeannette Walls from The Glass Castle and Baby from Lullabies For Little Criminals have been trapped in a state of disillusionment their entire lives. Delusion runs in the Walls family, and the children…

In Jeannette Walls’s memoir the glass castle she is able to convey a theme of lost dreams through the constant letdown caused by their father, Rex, and mother, Rosemary. Rex Walls always dreamed of the day when they would have enough money to build a glass castle. The Glass Castle is symbolic of a dream…

While drinking every now and then is not a problem, excessive alcohol consumption can lead to extreme alcohol abuse and ultimately alcoholism. The society we live in is strongly prejudiced by alcohol and affects people of all ages and backgrounds. Alcohol has been manifested in millionaires to the homeless. History has shown that alcohol abuse…

One stated by Bryant H. McGill, There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. People go through many things in their lifetime. At some point, they will come across obstacles. Some are caused by them, and the rest are caused by others. Forgiveness is a simple, yet complex concept. It…