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Jeannette Walls grew up in a way that not many can probably relate to. Born on April 21 in 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona to Rex and Marry Walls (The Glass Castle). A father who was terribly destructive when he was drunk, but a genius when he was sober who taught her and her brother Brian and sisters, Lori and Maureen all he knew when he wasn’t intoxicated. And her mother, Mary walls a free spirit who didn’t really want a family but was seemingly obligated to raise one, and with a positive attitude when she could. Jeannette’s mother and father were certainly not typical parents and neither was her life growing up (The Glass Castle). Numerous obstacles stood in her way, but Jeannette never seemed to slow down no matter how hard life got. At age three she was already cooking hot dogs for herself over the stove, by the time she was thirteen she had experienced rape, abuse and dishonesty from the ones she cared about most in her life and by then she was a young adult… she had her first real job prepared to make money of her own; already thinking about saving up to get out of her home and onto bigger and better things in New York. Jeannette always dreamed big, and never let anything hold her back. By the time she was seventeen she had saved up the money to travel to New York and meet up with her sister Lori, who had left the previous year. She had found a man in New York, married and then left him feeling he was not right for her and then become remarried some odd years later. Today she is married to journalist John J. Taylor and is a well-known American writer and journalist and author of her memoir The Glass Castle.
When Jeannette is burned by the hot dogs she cooks when she is three this shows how she is own her own from the beginning (9).
On Jeannette’s tenth birthday she asks her father to stop drinking, and for a while he does (116, 117).
Jeannette begins working for her school's newspaper (203).
Rex Walls Steals from his own children. The money that Lori and Jeanette have been saving up to get to New York he takes, just so he could buy Alcohol and Cigarettes (228).
As the book comes to an end Lori ends up leaving for New York and approximately a year later Jeannette makes it out at age seventeen (230-241).
Movie Adaptation
At this point in the book a man from the Child Protective Services shows up at the doorstep of the Walls’ house asking for Mr. and Mrs. Walls from report of neglect (194).
Dnitia, one of Jeannette’s good friends kills her Mother’s boyfriend for raping her and getting her pregnant; the rape Jeannette can relate to (200).
"Everyone has something good about them; you have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that."
-Mary Walls
"Poor Stanley, he was so lonely"
-Mary Walls
As Jeannette gets older she is constantly sexually assaulted. On page 184 Uncle Stanley begins to touch Jeannette inappropriately.
“No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”
-Mary Walls
The Glass Castle
A blustery March, New York City
My dress was on fire,
Melting and burning.
Middle of the night,
Skedaddle, skedaddle.
Lori, Mary, Me, Brian.
“I’m not rich”
The Glass Castle.
I never believed in Santa Claus,
Dad said there was no reason to.
Dad peeled through Blythe,
Ran a red light.
Battle Mountain.
None of us kids got allowances.
Always picking through the trash.
Drawing and painting discoveries.
I was touched in private places,
“Poor Uncle Stephen, he’s so lonely”
“Life is too short to worry about what other people think.”
New York; leaving, becoming an editor
I had a room now
And a life too.
Time passed up north.
Mom and Dad moved to New York
Dad passed away from Tuberculosis
My second husband, John.
Mom visited.
Mom worried about me,
It became dark, winds picked up, rattling the windows.
My life as I knew it
Had changed forever.
Emma Watson as Jeannette Walls
Emma Stone as Lori Walls
Josh Hutcherson as Brian Walls
Dakota Fanning as Maureen Walls
Drew Barrymore as Mary Walls
Nicholas Cage as Rex Walls
Adam Sandler as Uncle Stanley
Rex Walls tells his children about how he will use his Prospector to sort out his Gold from the other rocks; from this Rex promises to build the children a Glass Castle (23).
“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”
-Jeannette
Walls