How Does Jeannette Walls Influence Her Family

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In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, the author, was most influenced by her time in Battle Mountain as indicated by how she describes her home, friends, and adventures there. When the family first moved in Battle Mountain, she was not very excited, she heard it was started out as a mining station and thought that it might be unadventurous for her family and her. But, as the book continued, Jeannette found that Battle Mountain was her home.
Jeannette first enjoyed their home, although it was disorganized, it was the first home that she thought was theirs. The home has furniture, animals, and many other things that Jeannette thoroughly enjoyed. “A little after we’d moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn’t do it. We liked out boxes. They made going to bed seem like an adventure” (Walls 52). Even though the house was not perfect, Jeannette believed that it was home.
Friends were also a big influence on Jeannette and her siblings. Battle Mountain was the first place that the family …show more content…
Jeannette first found her passion for rocks here, and this became an adventure that she continued as she moved. Jeannette would go to the desert and find rocks that interested her and collect them, she began a collection and actually tried to sell them. Brian and Jeannette would also go on many adventures together, this is how they spent most of their time together. They would go to the dump together and find cool things, “Brain and I loved to go to the dump. We looked for treasures among the discarded stoves and refrigerators, the broke furniture and stacks of bald tires” (Walls 60). Later in the book, Brain and Jeannette actually go and find food in dumps so that they can eat. Jeannette loved adventures and the outdoors and Battle Mountain was the first place to really introduce her to the outdoors and what it
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